The Lawyer contended that although the first day of the week had no divine authority for its sanctity or observance as a Sabbath, yet if it be kept as scrupulously and conscientiously as the seventh day demanded, _it could not but be_ as acceptable to God. In answer to such sophistry, the Sabbatarian submitted the following legal case to him:-- "I am told that I can purchase, in the State of Connecticut, _one hundred_ copper cents, bearing the impress and superscription of the United States Mint, and equal in every respect in value to the mint coin, for _sixty-five_ cents, payable in gold or silver. But I admit them to be counterfeit. I admit, also, that I circulate this spurious coin. Now, will you undertake, for a fee of $10,000, to defend my cause against a prosecution for passing such false coin, and exonerate me from conviction in the United States' Courts." The honest lawyer's answer unhesitatingly was, "I cannot argue your cause in the very teeth of so unquestionable a law as appears to exist on the Statute Books."[9] The Sabbatarian replied:--"Then, as you admit _your first day Sabbath a counterfeit_, allow me to answer you as the celebrated Mr. Whiston did Chancellor King of England upon a similar question: 'If God Almighty should be as consistent, as just, and as jealous of his laws in the Court of Heaven, as my Lord Chancellor is in his, _where are we then_?'" THE INFERENCE.--If, then, I cannot obtain an advocate on earth, (for no one of repute would undertake it,) to plead my cause with the offer of a fee of $10,000, for the violation of a law of man's making, what ground have I to expect that the only advocate to be obtained in the Court of Heaven, i. e. _the Lord Jesus Christ_, will defend my cause against a breach of that law which his father ever made punishable with DEATH, temporal and eternal?--and who himself, when on earth, in his comment on that law, averred that not one _jot_ or _tittle_ could in any wise pass from it? (Matt. 5:18, 19.) [9] If any person shall falsely make or counterfeit any copper coin of the United States, or pass or publish the same, he shall be subjected to a fine of $1000, and suffer imprisonment to hard labor for a term not exceeding three years.--Gordon's Digest, p. 922. Published by the American Sabbath Tract Society, No. 9 Spruce Street, N. Y. No. 8. SABBATH CONTROVERSY. THE TRUE ISSUE.