Another Sunday Advocate.
By Editor
We are in receipt of a lengthy communication from a man who says he has read two numbers of our paper, and thinks we are "as blind as Bartimeus" on religious subjects. On the Sunday he is sanguine, and offers us the following information: "The resurrection was discovered on the first day of the week, but there is no command for any day to be set apart, therefore I regard the institution of the first day as more to the point by way of remembrance of the Lord than any other day, though to me, the day, only out of respect for the common usage and its true benefits to the laboring man, coupled with a united effort by all Christian societies on that day for religious instruction. These considerations make it, and hallow it to me. Thus as a Christian and a man having regard to the order, as established, in the absence of the Testament authority, I would condemn, and had I the authority with power, unite all efforts in holy worship in the selfsame hour of the first day." The idea that custom sanctifies a day borders on the ridiculous. How little do the people realize the meaning of Gen. 2:3, and Ex. 20:11. We recommend to our friend, who so easily sets aside the commandments of God, under a profession of great light, to read John 9:41. As for the closing expression we rejoice, as Christians and American citizens, that he and those who sympathize with his views have not yet the power. But the "sure word of prophecy" itself cannot more clearly tell what they will do when they get control of the civil power. See Rev. 13:11-18.