The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-02-25

ings, and 10 man has : righl 70 any more,
SIX days are o8rs. ihe sesen:h helongs d
God. Ills lille 10 il can never y abT0gz,
ted. Private individuals cannot DO il
Human governments cannot 10 lt. The
disposal Of lie Sabaaih has never been
committed 10 he eonirOI Of any earthly
legislainis; ncr en- al Iheir ensrimenls
besiow II upon Others. or take Il away.
" Six days shalt thou labor and 10 al ily
work, but the seventh is the sabbath u
The Lord lhy God"
On the very day after man Was created,
the sabbath was instituted. as il he cnuld
not ioo soon eater npon the worship 81
that Being IN whose imsge he had been
erea:ei. Thus u appears that this dsy
dates but one day alter the GRAFTON Ol
Adam. The Sabbath Was one 81 lie two
great institutions established in Paradise.
lis observance was again commanded up
on Mount Sinai. WHEN God descended
with such overwhelming displays Of his
majesty, and gave 10 his servant those Ia
bles 81 stone. on which that perpetual law.
. Remember the Sabbath day TO keep il
holy" was found engrayen BY his own
finger.
An opinion has prevailed to some ex-
tent in our own community, that the Sab
bath was merely Jewish institution; aud
that the reiterated cummands for its obser.
vance do no, apply 10 US. who are under
a different ec"nOmy. Without entering
at large upon the Argument, without more
than alluding TO the fact, that the ohsery-
ance OF the Sabbath was enjoined in the
Decalogue, "where il stands enshrined
among the moraliiies Of a recliIude that
is immutable and everlasting" - without
dwelling on the remarkable circumstance
that one day in seven was kept holy even
among the ancient Pagans before the days
of Moses; or the fact that one day in Sc
ven, the first day Of the week, was obser.
we'd in apostolic times, sanctioned hy the
precepts and example Of the Saviour him.
sell, who on that day lriulnphanIly arose
from the dead-or To the corroboraiing ex.
ample Of all christian sects for eighteen
centuries-it is sufficient TO refer to the
commandment itself. for there we find the
reason which God himself gave for the in.
s,itu,ion of this holy day. Remember
the Sabbath day to keep il holy" and
why! The answer is annexed, because
L" in six days God created heaven and
earth. the sea, and all thai in them is, snt
rested on the seventh day, WHEREFORE
the Lord blessed the seventh day and hal
| lowed IT, ~~---- '@
This was not reason which shoult
have force with Jews only. |, applies
equally to all men. The Creator mad,
the heaven and the earth, for the Greek
the Scy,hian, the Barbarian, for every
kindred, and tongue, and people, as wei
as for the seed Of Abraham; and having
finished his creation, he came forth in the
face Of all nature, and gave to man his
own august example, in resting upon the
seventh day, and haslowing it. Thus Wa.
this season Sc, apart by the authority, and
by the act Of God, and blessed for the use
of the whole human family. Until iha,
age or nation can be found, who are inde-
pendent Of any creator and prescrver-all
men, in all quarters, and generations of the
earth, will be under equal obligation to &C.
knowledge him as their proprietor, ruler,
and disposer. This sacred time of rest
was appointed as season perpe,ually re.
earring, in which men should be reminded
that "the earth is the Lords, and the full
ness thereof, the world and they that dwell
therein;" and that the language of all hui
man tongues might be, 40 come, let us
worship and bow down, let us kreel be-
fore the Lord our Maker. for he is our
God. and We are the sheep Of his pasture,
the people of his hand"
Not only is the observance OF the Sab
bath Of universal obligation, but it is en-
joined upon all by the most solemn sane
tons. Its worthy of remark. tina, under
the Theocrcy, the violation of no conn
mandment, mot even the first. which pro-
hibited idolatrt. } was visited with swlter
or erjudgments than notwithstanding.
From the day when God came down in
awful grandeur upon Mount Sinai, even
to the termination of the Jewish poIity,
he continued 10 give, from time to time,
the most fearful testimony of his determi-
nation to punish all who desecrated the
day which he had blessed.
On the other hand, to those who pro-
perly hallowed it, the most encouraging
and delightful promises were addressed.
Here we might close our appeal, for
surely the law, the example, the threat,
and the promise, of the infinite Jehovah,
should be sufficient to command the ODE
dience of all his creatures.
But God speaks in two ways. BY his
word and by his providence. And in his
providence we hear the clear echo Of that
, voice which sounds with such authority
in his word. The experience of all man
kind has demonstrated the truth, that the
strict observance of one day in seven is
necessary for the well-being both of indiyi-
uuals. and of whole communities. Those