THE JEWS AND THE SABBATH.
"SHALL the Sabbath be given up?" is a question which is being much discussed in Jewish circles. It is evident that a division is coming touching this question. What proportion of the Israelites will yield the Sabbath, is yet to be seen. Some will, openly, as many have done privately hitherto. This abandonment of Jehovah's sacred day will not be in the interest of deeper piety, nor of spiritual religion. Rabbi Schindler, of Boston, has lately opened a course of Sunday lectures, a step made necessary, he claims, because of the hindrances to Sabbath-observance from business considerations. He was careful to announce in his opening lectures that he had no purpose to celebrate Sunday as a religious festival, or as a Sabbath, or even as a day of worship. Such an attitude must result in practical no-Sabbathism and the loss of much that has been valuable to Judaism. The Sabbath is a fundamental doctrine of Judaism and of Christianity, and its disregard by either Jews or Christians means loss of spirituality, the influx of the spirit of disobedience, and religious ruin. It will be a sad day for God's ancient people when they cease to make his law their delight, and accept the no-lawism which a degenerate Christianity borrowed from effete paganism.—Sabbath Recorder.