SABBATARIANISM
SIR,—Mr. Beaton's letter exactly illustrates my difficulty about Sabbatarianism. In all honesty I can attach no meaning to the questions which he asks me. I have no notion what he means by suggesting that I represented the issue as one of 'Mr. Legerton and the LDOS versus the intelligentsia,' or by asking whether I know of any orthodox Jews who allow recreation on Sabbaths. The question 'Where does the Fourth Commandment stipulate that the Sabbath should be tied to Saturdays?' strikes me as peculiar. 'The Fourth Commandment speaks of the seventh day. It is a Jewish festival and therefore surely the Jews have the right to say on which day it falls. Christians would only have a right to claim that there was an obligation to behave on a day other than the Jewish Sabbath as if it was the Jewish Sab- bath if they could produce some evidence of a command to that effect. It is precisely such evidence for which I am asking.
I said that I had no objection to Mr. Legerton imposing such a discipline on himself if he found it helpful. Equally I have no objection to Arch- bishop Tait imposing such a discipline on himself. But neither Mr. Legerton nor Archbishop Tait is Almighty God. What I want is the evidence that it is the Will of God that all men should impose such a discipline on themseives.—Yours faithfully,
Claveys, Mells, near Frome
CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS
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