Contradictory Claims for Sunday Observance
EVERY one who has critically read books or papers issued in defense of the Sunday, or who has listened discriminatingly to sermons in its support, must have been struck with the contradictory positions taken. Not only do not two writers or speakers agree as to the authority for Sunday observance, but no writer or speaker is ever consistent with himself. All agree that Sunday should be kept, but they all give different reasons why. Now if in a court of law a dozen or more witnesses should swear that a man committed a certain crime, and no two of them should agree as to the time, or place, or manner of doing the act, a sensible jury would decide that they were bearing false witness, and were trying to condemn the innocent. Why should we judge differently in the case of Sunday against the Sabbath. Since the claims of Sunday rest wholly on the testimony of contradictory witnesses, ought not the "venerable day of the sun" to be turned out of court as an impostor?