PREFATORY NOTE

     The principal matter of this booklet was originally published as a series of editorials in the "Free Methodist" in October 1895. Numerous calls have since been made from time to time for its publication in a cheap and convenient form for general circulation. This circumstance, together with the fact that the publishers find there is a demand for a cheap publication outlining the argument in defense of the First-day Sabbath such as they have been unable to furnish, has determined the author to revise the articles, add a chapter on "Hallowing the Sabbath," and give them to the public in their present form.

     Due credit has generally been given in the body of the work for verbal extracts from other writers, but in addition thereto the author acknowledges indebtedness to "Watson's Institutes," "Lee's Theology," "Faussett's Bible Cyclopedia," Briggs on "The Sabbath," and Besse on "The Sabbath and its Changes with the Chronology of the Ages," for much which enters into the structure of the general argument. Nothing like a complete discussion of the subject is attempted, the argument in defense of the first day of the week, or "Lord's Day," as the true Christian Sabbath being given only in outline.

     Trusting, however, that, unpretentious as it is, it maybe found adapted in some measure to refuting the error of those who still contend for the observance of the Jewish Sabbath, thereby endeavoring to bring Christians under the yoke of Legalism, and that it may also be a means of confirming those whose faith in the First-day Sabbath has been in any wise disturbed in the belief and assurance that our Lord's Resurrection day is the true and proper Sabbath of the new dispensation, this little treatise is committed to a charitable Christian public by

The Author.