“If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. * * For love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. * * But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another. * * Love is the fulfilling of the law.” Jesus himself taught the disregard of the sabbath as a day of ceasing from labor or recreation and are we to suppose that both his teaching and practice had no meaning? Paul says, “One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Let no man therefore judge you in respect of a holy day or of the new moon or of the sabbath days.” The first legal enactment requiring an observance of Sunday as a Sabbath, was foisted upon the Christian world A. D. 321, by Constantine the Great—a heartless tyrant who had caused seven members of his family to be put to death in cold blood, that he might attain political and religious supremacy! He embraced Christianity because the Pagan priests and pontiffs could not grant him absolution, and would not fraternize with such a murderous monster! Hence he became the father of the so-called Sunday laws. Even Constantine’s decree did not interdict recreation nor the tillage of the soil. In general, through the Christian world, the day was a holiday, such as it now is on the continent of Europe. There the hours of service in the churches fall, usually, in the morning, and are strictly observed while the rest of the day is universally given to enjoyment. Let those, however, who are accustomed to cry out at the notion of a continental Sunday, remember that they are themselves the innovators, and let them, too, examine the following passages from the writings of men whose names must command respect, and not one of whom would speak in such a matter without mature consideration: “It will be plainly seen that Jesus did decidedly and avowedly VIOLATE THE SABBATH. The dogma of the assembly of divines at Westminster, that the observance of the Sabbath is a part of the moral law, is to me utterly unintelligible.”—Archbishop Whately. “As for the seventh day, that has gone to its grave with the signs and shadows of the Old Testament. Its imposition by law leads to blood and stoning to death those who do but gather sticks thereon; a thing which no way becomes the gospel.”—Bunyan. “The law of the Sabbath being thus repealed, that no particular day of worship has been appointed in its place is evident.”—Milton. “They who think that by the authority of the Church, the observance of the Lord’s day was appointed instead of the Sabbath, as if necessary, are greatly deceived.—Melancthon.