The Lord’s Day - or Man’s? A Public Discussion Between Bryon Sunderland, D.D. and W. A. Croffut, Ph.D. at Washington, D.C., as Reported in the Washington Daily Post from January 27 to April 17, 1896. (With Sundry Recent Poems).
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Link Singerman ID: supp2771
Year: 1897
Entry: Sunderland, Byron, and W. A. Croffut. The Lord’s Day - or Man’s? A Public Discussion Between Bryon Sunderland, D.D. and W. A. Croffut, Ph.D. at Washington, D.C., as Reported in the Washington Daily Post from January 27 to April 17, 1896. (With Sundry Recent Poems). New York: Truth Seeker Company, [1897]. ix, 152 p.
Author/Editor: Sunderland, Byron|Croffut, W. A
Location: New York, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: The Lord’s Day - or Man’s? A Public Discussion Between Bryon Sunderland, D.D. and W. A. Croffut, Ph.D. at Washington, D.C., as Reported in the Washington Daily Post from January 27 to April 17, 1896. (With Sundry Recent Poems).
Printer/Publisher: Truth Seeker Company
Language: English
Notes: The "Introduction" by Robert Ingersoll, the well-known American orator and outspoken agnostic, challenges the "sacredness of Sunday" belief and, by extension, all Sunday laws that restrict a person’s liberty to work, travel, or enjoy the day as they please. He argues that the Jews were never slaves in Egypt and, furthermore, the Jews borrowed "their idea of the Sabbath from the Babylonians, as well as the stories of Creation— Adam and Eve—the forbidden fruit—the expulsion from Eden, and the flood,—all these things came from Babylon. ... Unless we believe in the Babylonian gods, we have no divine sanction for the seventh day. We are compelled to rely on reason and to decide the question without supernatural aid" (p. vii).