But, candid reader, the facts are before you, and between us and these events there will be ample time for calm reflection, and deliberate decision. Where do you choose to stand in this final conflict between the venerable Sabbath of the Lord and its modern papistic rival? Will you keep the commandments of God, as uttered by his voice and written by his finger? or will you henceforth pay intelligent homage to the man of sin, by the observance of a day which finds its authority alone in the mutilated form of the commandments, as they come from his hand? May God help you to make a wise choice. Footnote 1: For further information upon this subject, the reader is referred to “The Three Angels’ Messages” and the “United States in Prophecy,” published at the _Review and Herald_ Office, Battle Creek, Mich. Footnote 2: Persons desiring to investigate this question still further, by addressing the author of these articles, will receive by mail, without charge, a tract in which he has discussed at length a branch of this subject merely alluded to in this communication. EXPLANATORY REMARKS. Immediately on the publication of the foregoing articles in the _Christian Statesman_, the editor of that paper announced his purpose to review them in the columns of that periodical. This purpose he subsequently carried out in the publication of eleven communications, in which various strictures were offered upon the positions taken by me in my original contributions. I immediately requested the privilege of replying to these criticisms in the columns of the _Statesman_, so that those who had read my argument in the beginning, and the replies of the editor of the _Statesman_ thereto, might have an opportunity to see the relative strength of the positions occupied by that gentleman and myself tested in fair and open debate. My petition, however, was denied, and I was compelled either to remain silent or seek elsewhere for an opportunity to make my defense. Fortunately, at this juncture, the columns of the _Advent Review_, which is the organ of the Seventh-day Adventists, were freely offered me for the purpose in question, and in them the Replies of the editor of the _Statesman_, and my Rejoinders thereto, have since been published. To these Replies and Rejoinders, as they appeared therein, the remainder of the present volume is devoted. To them, the reader is earnestly invited to give his most serious attention, since they present, side by side, the lines of argument usually employed for and against the Sabbath of the Lord. W. H. L. REPLIES AND REJOINDERS. Reply of the Editor of the Christian Statesman. ARTICLE ONE. SEVENTH-DAY SABBATARIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN AMENDMENT.