This is absolutely necessary from the nature of the case." There is no mistaking the import of this language: No matter if the Jew does not secure equal rights with others.

We are not a Jewish nation, but a Christian; and all must be made to conform to what the majority decide to be Christian institutions.

This affects all who observe the seventh day as much as the Jews.

And we apprehend it will not be a difficult matter to lead the masses, whose prejudices incline them in this direction, to believe that it is "absolutely necessary" that all legislation must take such a form, and cause them to act accordingly.
Several years since, Dr.Durbin of the _Christian Advocate and Journal_; gave his views on this subject as follows:-- "I infer, therefore, that the civil magistrate may not be called upon to enforce the observance of the Sabbath [Sunday] as required in the spiritual kingdom of Christ; but when Christianity becomes the moral and spiritual life of the State, the State is bound through her magistrates to prevent the open violation of the holy Sabbath, as a measure of self-preservation.

She cannot, without injuring her own vitality and incurring the divine displeasure, be recreant to her duty in this matter." At a meeting held at Saratoga Springs, Aug.