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7961 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 110.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… of argument as to why such a law should be put in force.”
7962 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 114.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
Senator Blair.—You cannot adduce a man’s practice as a reply to the argument on a question that touches the public good. It does not vitiate a man’s principle because he fails to live up to it himself.
7963 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 114.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… an argument for the Sunday law, these men assert that the great railroad corporations desecrate the Sabbath, and by persistently running Sunday trains …
7964 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 135.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… appellant’s argument, then, is reduced to this: That because he conscientiously believes he is permitted by the law of God to labor on Sunday, he may violate …
7965 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 137.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… theological arguments. It is very evident that the system now in force, savoring, as it does, very much of religious persecution, is a relic of the Middle Ages …
7966 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 140.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
This argument is identical with that by which the Pharisees in Christ’s day justified themselves in killing him. It was said:—
7967 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 155.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… my argument at first was not so unfounded nor so “wholly imaginary” as Dr. Lewis supposed, has been conclusively demonstrated, even to himself, since this hearing …
7968 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 160.8 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… my argument seems unsound, I would cite, entirely for their benefit, the words of the Supreme Court of Ohio, that the “protection” guaranteed in our Constitutional …
7969 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 161.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… my argument has shown, if anybody needs protection in this matter, assuredly it is ourselves),—suppose, then, we come to Congress asking for protection in the …
7970 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 164.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the argument of the Seventh-day keeper is unanswerable. I am inclined to think that the Judge uses the word there in the sense of fairly, rightly, or feasibly …
7971 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 164.9 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
“This argument is founded on the assumption that mankind are in the habit of working too much, and thereby entailing evil upon society; and that, without compulsion …
7972 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 165.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… , the argument against the law which he may make who has already observed the seventh day of the week, is unanswerable.”
7973 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 165.6 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… unanswerable argument. But Judge Cooley employs here the only means by which an unanswerable argument can ever be answered: and that is, “on authority.” That …
7974 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 166.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… unanswerable arguments. So we refuse our assent to Mr. Cooley’s answer to that which he himself pronounces an unanswerable argument.
7975 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 166.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
Senator Blair.—It does not follow that there is no unanswerable argument in support of Sunday laws, I take it.
7976 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 166.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
Senator Blair.—There is authority for the Sunday laws. It does not follow because the Sunday laws are supported by authority that therefore there is no sufficient argument upon which to base them.
7977 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 166.6 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… only argument in favor of a bad law that there is authority for it. But there may be good authority for the Sunday law.
7978 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 167.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
Mr. Jones.—But it is bad. Is there any good answer to an unanswerable argument?
7979 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 176.7 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… for argument’s sake that that phrase in the commandment is indefinite, it must be admitted that the Lord, when he wrote it, intentionally made it indefinite …
7980 The National Sunday Law [SL18], p. 183.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… further argument is needed to show that the Sunday laws of all the States, and the principles of the decisions of the Supreme Courts which sustain them, are …