Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-09

their families, their servants, and their cat
lie. and this prohibition was enforced by
the penalty announced in the following
words: /" Every one that defleth it the
Sabbath) shall be put TO death for who
soever doeth any work therein shall be cut
eff from among his people" But where
is the family, how strict and punetilious
soever, that keeps Sunday according 10
this command-impOsing absolute rest on
their beasts-ahstaipipg from all their do
mestic employments, and refusing even to
gather fuel, or to kindle a fire ia their
dwellings-for to this length did the pro-
hibition extend: !" Ye shall kindle no tre
throughout your hahltations on the oaODath
day." Exodus, 35th ch. Sd V.
Nothing can be palmer than that people
ought to comply fully with these rigorous
laws, or else relinquish the common tenet
that Sunday is the Sabbath There Is no
little absurdity in the solemn denuncIatlons
against the laxity of others observance,
while those from whom they proceed them
selves habitually indulge in ilagrant viola
tions of the ancient institution, by subject
ING their beasts TO travel, their servants or
their families to many household oceupa-
tons. and kindling fires in their dwellings,
thus fagrantly violating the laws which they
profess to own. Such is the condemna-
tion in which the most punctilious of the
present day involve themselves by main
tanning the popular but unsupported opin-
ion we have mentioned.
Il !, 10 fro
Bishop Wmte's Lectures on the Catechism :
"The blessing of the seventh day is men
toned in the second chapter of Genesis, at the
closing Of the act Of creation but this is thought
by some to have been done without any intima-
ton of an appointment in Paradise, and only to
account for It's being made to the children OF
Israel in the wilderness. Certain II IS that we
meet with no instance of actual hallowing OF
the Sabbath until we reach the 10th chapter of
Exodus and the manner of the giving and re-
ceving of the institution carries strong appear
ances of its not being familiar 10 the Israelites.
This seems not easily to be accounted for, If 1t
had been observed by their patriarchal fore
fathers, Of which, also, there is not han. IN their
history.
- In regard to lis duration, it appears evident
that so far as regarded the authority Of the in
junction TO the lsraelites, and unless some new
obligation can be shown, The Institution ceased,
even in relation 10 Jewish converts to Christi
aniy at the destruction of their religious Poity,
and that II lras nereT erended TO the Gentle Chris
tians OF this there shall be given but one proof,
it being to the point. 1t is in the ID chapter of
Collossians: Let no man, therefore, judge you
in meat or in drink, or in respecto an holy day,
or of the new MOON or Of the Sabbath days Here
the Sabbath is considered falling ,oih the
tcAole body of the ritual latc of Moses. And this
NAV show the reason on which the Church avoids
the calling of the day of public worship The
Sabbath II is never SO called in the New
Testament, and in the primitive Church the term
Sabbatising carried with it the reproach Of lean
ing to the abrogaied obserrGnce Of the iGto."
NERITAS.