Much as man has attempted to obscure and pervert this holy institution, the Word of Truth is clear, express and emphatic, in regard to the perpetuity of the particular day to be hallowed, as well as it is explicit in the precise time to be sanctified. The Scriptures no where speak of a "_Jewish Sabbath_" or a "_Christian Sabbath_." The Sabbath of the Bible is but one, and has but one name--"_the Sabbath of the Lord thy God_;" which the Scriptures declare is the _seventh day_, instituted more than two thousand years before there was a Jew in the world, and, consequently, could not have been a "Jewish Sabbath." The Sabbath, Christ, who is "Lord of the Sabbath," asserts, "was made for man"--the whole race of man--not for a particular nation or people, but for _mankind at large_. It is proper here to remark, that this sneering at the "_Jewish Sabbath_," which in times past was, and still is, by weak minds, constantly resorted to, in the absence of legitimate argument, to prejudice the populace against giving this subject a fair and impartial examination, and thereby to lead them to prejudge the case, has, within a few years past, been abandoned by all sensible and consistent advocates for the _sabbatic institution_. They find that it stultifies their own pretensions, and has done much damage to themselves in sustaining the claims of sacredness for any other day; for, while they maintain that the ancient Sabbath was a Jewish institution, they unwittingly prove that there is no longer any Sabbath to be observed, since they fail to show that another has been ordained or established for the Christian Church. If a "Jewish Sabbath," it was done away with by the Jewish dispensation; and if no other Sabbath has been expressly appointed by Divine authority, the Christian Church is certainly left without the Sabbath, or any substitute possessing any of its sacredness--a sacredness which can only be derived from an _express_ and _explicit_ mandate from the Lord of the Sabbath. That puerile quibble, the _nick-name_ "Jewish Sabbath," has, therefore, been abandoned by the most prominent writers of the present day; who generally fall back and found the _institution_ (the origin and grounds for its perpetuity) long anterior to the "Jewish," the Mosaic dispensation--even back to the Sabbath of Paradise. Thus Dr. Barnes, of Philadelphia, in a series of sermons on this subject, delivered and published in the fall of 1845, advocates this position, and contends strenuously for the _ante-Mosaic Sabbath_. The same view was inculcated by the "National Lord's Day Convention," held at Baltimore, November, 1844; and it has been reiterated more distinctly and emphatically by "The Rhode Island Sabbath Union," in an address to the people of that State, in 1846, to which, among others, we find attached the name of Dr. Wayland, the honored President of Brown University. The Committee of the Rhode Island "_Sabbath_ Union," in calling attention to the _claims of the