Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-04-20
April 90,

rnln III
,be sabbath, in il there shall be none. And
came 10 pass, thai there went out some OF
No people on the seventh day for TO gather.
and they found none. And the Lord said
.o,o Moses, how long refuse ye 10 keep my
commandments and my lawsf See. for
~, The Lord hath given you the sabbath,
.s.,sfore he giveth you on The sixth day the
...,d Of two days: abide We every man in
i, place, lei no man go out Of his place on
- seventh day. So the people rested on
=. ssveu,h day.' The next mention Of the
.b;oct is to be found in the Goth chapter Of
r.o1us, from the 9Th to the lllh verses in
.lusive, thus: Remember the sabbath-day
% keep il holy. Six days shall, ,lou labor,
and do all Thy work: but the seventh day
!. The sabbath Of the Lord thy God: in il
thou shall, mol do any work, thou, nor Thy
.ou nor thy daughter, nor thy man-seryant,
nor Inv maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor
INV stranger that is within thy gates: for in
a, DAVIS the Lord made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that in them is, and rested
the seventh day: wherefore the Lord bless
Cd The sabbath day, and haHowed it, The
next mention Of tits to be found in the 3lst
ebapter and 18th verse;. as follows: Six
DAYS NAV work be done, but in the seventh
!, the sabbath Of rest, holy to the Lord:-
wbosoever doeth any work in The sabbath
lay he shall surely be put TO DEATH Again,
XIV. Q, 8: SIX days shall work be done,
but on the seventh day there shall be toy you
holy day, a-sabbath Of rest TO the Lord*-
wbosoever doelh work therein shall be put
10 death. Ye shall kindle no fire through
out your habitaions uron the sabbath day.
4 All these commands TO the Jews were Civ
en- the same year. The next year man
was found picking up sticks on the sabbath
day, and he was stoned to death for it. See
Numbers XIV. 1926. From all these pass
ages. AMI all the circumstances, nothing is
plainer to me than that The sabbath, as.giv-
en- 10 the Jews, was an institution peculiar
10 that observation-disclosures from anything
going before or following after. No work
10 be done, and no FIRE TO be built, under the
penalty Of death-these at least were pecul-
iariiies, not a trace Of which can be found
n the history of the two thousand years
hat preceded, and the near two thousand
years that have succeeded the Jewish DIS
pensarioa. II brother Col,ing, or any other
sdopter Of the new dispensation, will 60
back 10 the Mosaic law for their sabbath,
ask them by what, authority they modify ii
down 10 the thing which they themselves
now hold TO and observe? Can one OF
them be found who keeps the Jewish sab
balh7 Not one. They not only fail alto
, gether in the manner, but they are all out
Of iointin finle-except il be small sect,
calling themselves Seventh Day Baplists.
These undertake TO follow the Jewish insti-
tuition in regard 10 time, but they fail entire
" rs 10 manner. Brother Getting talks
about one day in seven, or one seventh
mar, Of the ,ime.' This Is phraseology
which comes from popular religious teach
ers. and moi from any part Of the Bible.
canoo, be found within the lids Of that vol
ume. sThe precept found in The law Of tn
ten commandments reads thus: the seq
enth day is The sabbath Of the Lord ID.
God in il thou shalt not do any 1oork.'-
Would lie observance Of any other day bu
sthe seventh day have answered Tor ,hos
10 whom this law was given7 All mus
agree that il would not. They were nc
l,rt al liberty 10 accommodate themselves :
10 The time. All must acknowledge th'
observance OF the first, The fourth, or an
other but the seventh day, could not hav
been accepted as obedience TO the law. !
talk. then, about, lone day in seven, Or on
seventh part Of the time, SO far as y pc
,ains 10 The sabbath delivered TO the Jew
IS sheer assumption, which am sure brotl
er Couing viii abandon, on moments r
aeclioa, as being unscriptural and unreaso'
able.
Let us now carry out the assumption in
rcction where il will prove too much for the Pr
poses Of our friends who profess to hold that q
FIRST day is more holy time than any other. II
phrsse-'.one day in seven, or one seventh pa
Of the lime''--was manufactured for the want
ascnptural command Cor observing the hrst ia
No such command can be found in the Bib
Hence il becomes necessary for those who obser
that day, instead Of the seventh, TO acknowled
and show that it is not essential as TO tchich d
Of the seven is used. So they say, zone day
seven, or one seventh part Of the time" w
in, thus doing they themselves entirely overtime
their own doctrine, that one day is Ia Itself m'