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William Lloyd Garrison

CHAPTER XIV
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His enthusiasm took to itself wings and made a great display of ecclesiastical zeal beautiful to behold.

"The Sabbath," quoth the teacher who endeavored to muzzle the students of Lane Seminary on the subject of slavery, whose ultimate extinction his prophetic soul quiescently committed to the operation of two centuries; "the Sabbath," quoth he, "is the _great sun of the moral world_." Out upon you, said Garrison, the LORD GOD is the _great sun of the moral world_, not the Sabbath.

It is not one, but every day of the week which is His, and which men should be taught to observe as holy days.

It is not regard for the forms of religion but for the spirit, which is essential to righteousness.

What is the command, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,' but one of ten commandments?
Is the violation of the fourth any worse than the violation of the third or fifth, or sixth?
Nowhere is it so taught in the Bible.


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