FIFTY UNANSWERABLE ARGUMENTS!
By E. GOODRICH.
Such seems to be the title of a work recently published against the claims of the Sabbath. As I have not seen the work, of course I cannot judge of its merits. The title however makes a very unfavorable impression. Fifty unanswerable arguments seems altogether too cumbersome a thing to be either conveniently handled or pocketed. Fifty unanswerable arguments! Why so many? It is written, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word is established." Yes, a single fact is an immovably stubborn thing. And as important a case as a trial for murder, a trial for life, may be readily disposed of upon the evidence of one well-qualified, unimpeachable witness, corroborated by the dead body of the murdered man. Now all wisdom is manifested in the application of power for the accomplishment of some desirable end. And the bare fact that a man should employ fifty courageous, invincible men to accomplish a certain work, would certainly indicate that the enterprise was a desperate one. And the fact that an intelligent man should employ what he knew to be fifty unanswerable arguments in the treatment of any plain case, is certainly more than modest men can believe. If the title had been, "An Argument," "A few Arguments," "A few Nuts worth cracking," or something of the like, then it would be interesting; but to say, "Fifty Unanswerable Arguments," is altogether too big to be credited. They might as well say the assassin struck his victim fifty fatal blows, when the bare fact that he struck him the second time would be evidence that he either was afraid the first blow was not enough, or else he wished to wreak vengeance on the dying or dead. Whether the above work is what its title indicates, I am not anxious to decide. But the idea that fifty unanswerable arguments are employed, would seem to indicate that either the case was very obscure and doubtful, if not desperate, and therefore forty-nine would not do or else the writer wished to beat the thing after it was mortally wounded. Or it may be that the author mistook the work in which he was engaged. Well, be the thing as it may, it certainly looks suspicious from every point of observation. There is however, one successful argument against the Sabbath; and lest the above author, like all others who oppose the Sabbath, has forgotten to mention it, I would refer to it here. It is this: The Sabbath of the fourth commandment is very unpopular, and therefore it is inconvenient. It is crossing both to our carnal mind and interests to observe it. The above I think, as far as I have investigated the matter, is the all-prevailing argument against the Sabbath of the fourth commandment.