Mr. EDGER'S QUESTIONS: Dr. MAUN SELLS REPLIES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXX, Issue 5135, 5 February 1874, Page 3

Mr. EDGER'S QUESTIONS: Dr. MAUN SELLS REPLIES.

To the Editor. — Sir : Mr. Edger's questions are not ri.fficult to answer. 1. " J he seventh day is the Sabbath " and then by Christiana, when they changed thu rt-iy to Sunday, showed thai, they did not consider that the essence of tho commandment cou stated id any particular day. Ouis is a ' abbath based ou a higher Jaw than the Jewish code. It is a universal law ; and our Lord confirms it when he say&, the '■ Sabbath was made for man." 2. Tho New Testament docs not repeal this law. In more places than one, it app' ala to tho Decalogue as being in force and directs thing! to ba done on the 14 firat day of tho woek." Wo know that the early Cimstians did meet on that day. 3 Mr. E giently mistakes the spirit of tho New Tett itnent if he thinks that it is a " Catalogue of offences." What would ho say to a gambler, for example if he were to plead that his sin is not condemned m it ? Thfi Jews needed no reproof for Sabbath breaking. Their fault was the revors<\ 4. The breaker of the Sabbath is a bieaker of tho law of God. Of Mr. Edger's "special judgments" I know nothing. Lastly I never had any conn >ction with " North Shore Ferry Company." Mr. fid, ei, I foe), has done me a wrung in this controversy, lie ignores the dibtincti ■ ti I druw bttsvpon a government an ) a company or imlivi'Iuil I dfinandul tint tli • sir»|>l<'S of .i lugo mimb.'i of t.'X jjuycis should he ri'S^ci't' d. U[> he uislus puts i, thtolii^ical }>i.-t o 1 ti> n>y huud, and ill inauils fiumini*a jtis lOta imiuf my scru|»!t"4, 'ind not 8tti-fi^<l v\itu that, count cts my n.nne with a strain <oni|i.iny. If Mr. E is so eag- r for the fray I a! jtU be b ppy to intet him whereever he pkases, to diiciihS the question. But if he means to enliven his letters by spiciug them with personalities, 1 must beg leave to take no farther notice of them.— I am, &u., R. Mai/nssgl.