THE 'TIMES' ON SABBATARIANISM.

Evening Star, Issue 3432, 20 February 1874, Page 3

THE 'TIMES' ON SABBATARIANISM.

To the Editor, Sir,—Has the editor or leader writer gone mad? or has the printer’s devil begun to preach sermons? were questions that occurred to me on reading the * Daily Times ’ of this morning. As tne Sabbatarian question has been fully discussed, I have, therefore, no intention of entering on it, in either a religious or moral point, leaving that to abler heads. Your contemporary, however, took a lively part in that discussion, and it surprises me to see his sudden conversion. Ah, chese sudden conversions often lead to lunacy, hence my query if he has gone mad. Why the undertakers should have come under the ban of the writer I can’t discover, seeing that their business combines necessity and mercy, but the article in question furnishes an answer. It appears that those sinners of undertakers “ induce others to work sorely against their will, as we have good reason to know.” I regret that I should have been tbe cause of any annoyance ; but I must leave it iu the hands of the public. The facts of the case are that I have frequently taken funeral notices on Sunday, which occupy about one inch in their columns, and for which they never forget to charge me ten shillings. It is vrithin the bounds of possibility that the sapient writer of tbe article alluded to is not aware of each a breach of the Fourth Commandment, but if he will entrust himself to my guidance on any Sunday after 7 p.m., I will show him an office as busy as a hive of bees. Whether the whisky and baked meats of which he speaks will be present, 1 know not, but if there is any affinity between baked meat and “ pye,” perhaps he may find as much of the latter as he would wish.—l am, &c., D. TAYLOR, Hope street. February 20.