THERE are those who studiously and persistently violate the law of God, and teach men so, who can and do apply to some of us, the term, brethren. We cannot respond by applying to them the same term; and for this we are subjected to the charge of being bigoted and uncharitable. Is this charge just? Let us see. Those who reject the Sabbath, very well know that the keeping of the Sabbath, even if it is a non-essential as they claim, involves no breach of christian character; they know that the observance of the Sabbath is not an index in us of any lack of love in our hearts to God, or any dislike to christian duties, or any disposition to evade the just requirements of God. Is there any just cause, then, why on this ground they should not apply to us the term, brethren? None at all. But with us the case is not so. If, as we claim, the Sabbath is an essential part of our rule of duty, a vital portion of the law of God, then to violate it, and zealously and incessantly fight against it as they do, does involve a breach of christian character. It does betray on their part an alienation from God, a dislike of christian duty, a desire not to be subject to the law of God; for the carnal heart is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Can we extend to such characters the hand of fellowship? We cannot. There is no breach of christian charity here; and the class above referred to, have no right to endeavor to bring us, on this ground, into an invidious comparison with themselves. The only reason they can extend the hand of fellowship which we cannot return, is because their standard is low, and their moral discipline loose; while we endeavor to maintain just the reverse. And the fact that they can call us brethren, notwithstanding we keep the Sabbath, is but an expression of their inwrought conviction, which every one can but maintain, that there is nothing so bad or heinous, after all in the observance of the Sabbath, even though no law should require it of us in this dispensation. While the course we feel constrained to pursue, is an expression of our sense of the sanctity of the law, and our displeasure at the course of those who live in its open violation. People, then, may call us uncharitable if they will; but we cannot lower the standard.