In an article entitled, "The Continental Sunday, the Reaction Against it in Europe," the Lutheran Observer says:— "The continental Sunday has trespassed upon the Sabbath as a day of rest. As the physical constitution of man could not endure the exhaustion of uninterrupted toil, God forbade it, and enjoined that all men should abstain from labor one day in every seven. In other words, God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest." Yes, "God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest," and he also ordained it as a memorial of his creative work. "Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy." "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day, and hallowed it," is the language of the fourth commandment; and of Israel the Lord said: "Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them." Eze. 20:12. But by the unwarranted substitution of Sunday for the Sabbath, the memorial character of the Sabbath institution has almost wholly been lost sight of. Truly, "the continental Sunday has trespassed upon the Sabbath," and not only so but it has usurped the place of the Sabbath, and being without the warrant of divine law, its friends are everywhere demanding that this lack be supplied by the enactment of civil laws requiring its observance and punishing its violation.