What Outsiders Think of It.
THE New York Herald, in a notice of the recent Sabbath Convention at Saratoga, says: "The canting hypocrites of that day [say two hundred years ago] failed, as their descendants and imitators of this day fail, to see the gross inconsistency of their denouncing and reviling as papistical the canons of the early church, and yet insisting on the observance of a day for which there is no other authority than such canons. There is just the same moral constraint to recognize the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday as there is to abstain from the use of meat on Fridays—neither more nor less. The only authority for either is that of some religious caucus, or convention, or council, which the fanatics of Cromwell's day, and the Sabbatarian delegates at Saratoga, would alike revile and scoff at." From the above it appears that the great truth that Sunday is only a human institution, is beginning to make itself felt with intelligent minds, that are not stereotyped in their theology, or imbedded hand and foot in cast iron creeds.