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8242 The Signs of the Times, vol. 13 December 15, 1887, page 761 paragraph 9

… . Blaine’s argument for retaining the whisky tax while abolishing the tobacco tax is not good. The same argument by which he would justify free tobacco is …

8243 The Signs of the Times, vol. 13 December 15, 1887, page 761 paragraph 11

… the argument of Mr. Blaine’s inconsistent, and that is that whisky is now made an essential ingredient in manufactured tobacco whether in the shape of cigars …

8244 The Signs of the Times, vol. 13 December 15, 1887, page 761 paragraph 13

… , no argument can be framed to justify free tobacco that will not equally justify free whisky. Tobacco and whisky are boon companions in deviltry, and the deviltry …

8245 The Signs of the Times, vol. 13 December 29, 1887, page 792 paragraph 2

… the argument that the law is abolished. When once people can be given to understand that the ten commandments are abolished, it is not hard then for such teachers …

8246 The Signs of the Times, vol. 13 December 29, 1887, page 792 paragraph 4

… same arguments that they themselves have used against the Sabbath of the Lord. This was plainly stated by Dr. Pierson, of Philadelphia, in 1884, in these words …

8247 The Signs of the Times, vol. 13 December 29, 1887, page 792 paragraph 6

… very arguments have been put into the mouths of the people by the preachers in their efforts to persuade them not to obey the commandment of God, and now the …

8248 The Signs of the Times, vol. 13 December 29, 1887, page 792 paragraph 7

… meet arguments which they themselves have invented, the preachers are obliged to work up civil enactments and constitutional amendments by which everybody …

8249 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 January 20, 1888, page 39 paragraph 5

… their argument, as Sunday work imperils the nation, whoever persists in working on Sunday and in disregarding the day, thereby sets himself against the life …

8250 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 January 20, 1888, page 39 paragraph 8

… own arguments, which show the very thing which we have here pointed out. And to show that we are not talking at random, we shall not give some of their own testimony …

8251 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 January 20, 1888, page 40 paragraph 6

… the argument. She admits that the commandment of God not only enjoins rest on one day of the week, but also enjoins labor on the other six. Here are a people who …

8252 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 January 20, 1888, page 40 paragraph 12

… very argument by which the Saviour was condemned to death by the popular religionists of his day; and “If they called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how …

8253 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 2, 1888, page 136 paragraph 3

… , carnal arguments,” nor “mathematical proofs.”

8254 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 16, 1888, page 167 paragraph 12

… no argument. I proceed to the controversies that arose in Geneva.

8255 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 April 20, 1888, page 247 paragraph 11

Now we shall present some of the arguments upon which they base this demand for laws in favor of the “ civil Sabbath,” and also showing what they want these laws enforced for.

8256 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 April 20, 1888, page 248 paragraph 20

… his argument, from that instance. But from the following it is quite certain that that is what they have in view. Prof. C. A. Blanchard said:—

8257 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 June 8, 1888, page 343 paragraph 1

… to arguments in support of the petitions of the W.C.T.U., for National Sunday Legislation. Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, D.D., delivered what seems to have been the principal …

8258 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 June 8, 1888, page 343 paragraph 2

… the argument was made, ask Congress to prohibit Sunday railroad trains, Sunday mails, and Sunday parades in the army and navy. The Doctor instances the railroad …

8259 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 June 8, 1888, page 343 paragraph 7

… his argument is an utter non sequiter. And if he does mean this, then to what absurd lengths will men not run in their wild endeavors to find a basis for Sunday …

8260 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 June 8, 1888, page 343 paragraph 14

Next the Doctor discusses Sunday mails, and it is in this that there appears the “true inwardness” of his whole Sunday-law argument, and, in fact, of the whole Sunday-law movement. He says:—