THE NATIONAL SUNDAY LAW, ARGUMENT OF ALONZO T ...

National Sunday Law- A.T Jones
0 Senator Blair. -- If the administration of the Sabbath during these three thousand
years, at least, was for the good of the Jews and the human race, why will not the Sabbath
be good for the Jews and the human race since the time of Christ, as well as before?
1 Mr. Jones. -- It is for the good of the human race.
2 Senator Blair. -- The civil law must administrate it if it is done. Then we will get
no Sabbath now under our division of powers of government, unless we have the Sabbath
recognized and enforced by the State authority?
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Mr. Jones. -- Certainly we have a Sabbath.
Senator Blair. -- Your proposition is to strike out the Sabbath from the
Constitution and condition of society in these modern times?
Mr. Jones. -- No, sir.
Senator Blair. -- Certainly so far as its existence and enactment and enforcement
by law are concerned.
Mr. Jones. -- Yes, by civil law.
Senator Blair. -- It was enforced in what we call the civil conduct of men under
that theocratic form of government for at least three thousand years.
Mr. Jones. -- Certainly.
Senator Blair. -- Now the observance of the Sabbath depends upon a compulsory
observance of the law.
Mr. Jones. -- Not at all.
0 Senator Blair. -- It required the law of God which he enforced by death, by
stoning men to death when they violated it, and we have the Sabbath day only by virtue
of what we call the civil law, which is equally a part of God's law.
1 Mr. Jones. -- That government was not organized specially to enforce the Sabbath.
2 Senator Blair. -- They stoned men to death who violated the law.
3 Mr. Jones. -- Certainly; and likewise for the transgression of the other
commandments.