Sunday and the Sabbath. By H. R. Gamble, M.A. (John
Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)—On the whole, Mr. Gamble takes the view adopted by Dr. Hessey in his Bampton Lectures of 1860. He holds that for Christians the obligation of the Sabbath vas utterly abolished. He holds, too, that the "Creation Sabbath," as it has been called, is a fiction. And he does not believe in 5. transference of the seventh-day obligation to a first-day. This is all very reasonable, but it must be allowed that the Fourth Commandment is a difficulty. The fiction of a transference, if it is fiction, has a certain convenience. Anyhow, Mr. Gambles- book is worth reading. With the practical part of it, the protest against the selfish Sunday habits of the dig, we heartily sym- pathise. It is impossible to lay down laws, or even rules, but apparently the conscience and sense of decency. on which we are, driven to rely are sometimes very weak.
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