Abram Herbert Lewis - Spiritual Sabbathism

NO-SABBATHISM AND THE SUNDAY 1
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had heard the old,
old story of the dying and risen
god."
The enormous mass of facts marshaled by
Frazer and other anthropologists to support the
foregoing statement may be read in the second
or third edition of "The Golden Bough."
They produce in Doctor Frazer an ill-concealed
belief that the resurrection of Christ
is itself a myth. "In the great army of martyrs,"
he continues, "who in many ages and in many
lands, not in Asia only, have died a cruel death in
the character of gods, the devout Christian will
doubtless discern types and forerunners of the coming
Saviour—stars that heralded in the morning sky
the advent of the Sun of Righteousness—earthen
vessels wherein it pleased the divine wisdom to set
before hungering souls the bread of heaven. The
sceptic, on the other hand, with equal confidence,
will reduce Jesus of Nazareth to the level of a multitude
of other victims of a barbarous superstition,
and will see in him no more than a moral teacher,
whom the fortunate accident of his execution invested
with the crown, not merely of a martyr, but
of a god. The divergence between these views is
wide and deep."
It is indeed. As for ourselves, we have already
indicated, in our first chapter, how sincerely