, 1876-03-12
NOT YET SATISFIED.

/ a2A- 1AA+E4 2AEsAGHEUs
] To the Elitor Of Tie Chicago Tribune:
| OAK PANE, March 10.-At the risk O.
! being considered unnbIe to reply to Mr
| Bailey's criticisn1s, have for the NOS
part rafrained from giving them any particula,
attention ; not because regard them special,
difficult to answer indeed, most Of them ar.
weak and over-straincd. Take, for example, hi
criticisms on Romans fourteenth and fifth and
his dissection Of my commercial argument TheJ
are so pue rile as to be not even epecions o,
plausible, but mere make-shifts. ] have Ger
tainly not neglected Mr.. B. in this respect from
any feas inspired BY the power Of lls criticisms
but from the deliberate conviction TINT the trnsl
Of the subject iu debate caunot be arrived at in
that way. ! have no doubt that criticism aud
counter-c-iticism, rejoioder uud spr-rejoindcr,
sd intr:s1nl, is precisely the style Of argument
91r. L. would be pleased to have his opponents
follow, because it eeldom it evcr,-in matters
OF religious e eontrorersv-rcaches my ded-
mite conclusion; and, if followed in the
discussion of the Sabbath question, would
leave mr. 3. just where he would like to be left,
in peaceful possession Of his cherished asscr-
tiop, that tue Sabbath, as an institution for
No wonder the Sabbath advocate clinss with the
tenacity Of death to this assertion. Without it.
ho haa not an inch of tenable ground to stand
on. Ho knows that the application Of the Jew
ish Sabbath to the Gentilea is, 10 eay the least
more than doubtful. But With universal Sab
bath, such ns he ahirms YVES enjoined on man
Find at creation, which he can truly declare has
never been repealed (hecause meyer giycn), he
feels that he has the Gsntile as we'll rs the Jew
in the grasp Of the Sabbath law; that he is mas
ter Of the situation, nnd TINT no such pens-up
Utica na the jewish law contains his powers.
Ho fenls just as positive and secure Us We would
all feel on the subject, who believe in the truth
Of the record, if there WAS plnin. uueqniTocal
precept enioining Sabbath observance on nlan-
kind, irrespective Of particular descent or na-
tlonnlity.
j believe in the truth Of Revelation With as
much sincerity na does Mr. Eailey, or DR.. Fal-
lows, OF any other man, but I am very far from
accepting what orthodoxy afirms OF its meaning
md teachings. Wero it not for the efficacy OF
one truth contained in orthodoxy it would be ut
terly worthless. That ono truth sayea it from
contempt, and makes it, Notwithstanding oil ita
crudeness aud deformity, the power it is, and has
been, for the moral end spiritual salvation of
men. That one truth is Jesus Christ and galys~
ton through Rim. To the list OF orthodox a5-
s1rditios given by "CadmuB" ?" in his laet SUM-
days article. wiah to add ono that is so abhor-
reut to erery instinct OF justice aud truth that
wonder "Cadmua~ OF any other man OF enlight-
ened judgment could pass over it uunoticed. I
refer to the dogma of substitution. Such
dogma bolongs to ID era Of eheer barbarism. and
is too gross for even tho first stage OF civliza-
ton, eaying nothing Of enlightenment and cul-
turo, 80 much by Way OF episode respecting my
standing in relation to the truth OF Revelation,
Christianity, md what il styled orthodoxy. II
men were in the habit Of judging Christianity on
It's ments. INDEPENDENTLY OF It's ez2oandcrs, the
errors of orthodoxy might psss unaoiiced But
mulasuaes NUT or men regard Christianity and oztho-
do1y as equivalent terms, and because the latter
.s SO 1uA OF ridiculous absurdlties they reject
the former. I know and am persuaded that
some OF the dognas OF orthodoxy aro the worst
While they are never INSTRUMENTAL in 1caiIinr
any soul to a trus knoH,edga OF Christ. thnT
drive multitudes awsy from Hin, WV,
Well, this is tics Tho Sabata question, and vel
it is in sense related 70 it. for the Sabbath is
rests on excs-sis and Inference. Sir. Bailey
end Or, FaioTs both know that tho Ghbbath