SUNDAY LAWS ARE "JEWISH."
"SATURDAY," the Bible Sabbath, is rejected because it is "Jewish." Men say, "It belonged to the old dispensation, and is unfit for the new gospel era." It is sufficient answer to note the fact that Christ loved and kept it, that he rejected what was "Jewish" about it; he Christianized and fitted it for the dispensation which he founded, and in which he is the central figure, the all in all. But inconsistency could scarcely go farther than it does when those who reject the Sabbath because it is "Jewish" and "legal" rush to the Old Testament and the Jewish system as the foundation for Sunday legislation. "Nehemiah's Sunday law, Nehemiah as a model mayor, Nehemiah as bold reformer, to be imitated by all men in authority," appears almost every week in the columns of Sabbath Reform publications. Thus the men who sneer at the narrowness of those who go back to Moses for their Sabbath, build the whole structure of their "Civil American sabbath" on the narrowest State Church theocratic system of the Mosaic dispensation. Christ founded Christianity upon the broad spiritual platform,—"My kingdom is not of this world." Paganism, perverting true Christianity, united Church and State, made Christianity a "civil institution," and put its "venerable day of the sun" in the place of the Sabbath as Christ left it.—Evangel and Sabbath Outlook.