The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-21

Resx>a~ ~ ths new. q. F0ttA DID.
RSv O. Porrs D. D. yesterday evening delivered scr
men, at thu church in Unworthy place. on ths the
Jewsh and Christian Sabbath The body and galleries Of
the ed6cs were crowded By highly respectable
audisoss The reverend gentleman took for his text the
fh verss Of tie sixth chapter II Luke "And he said
unto them that the Son of Nan Lord also Of the Sab
BATH" and proceeded IS follows -
Tho part assigned to in this discourse is the relation
which the Christian and the jewish SAbbahs bear to
each other In supporting the authority of tho Christian
Sabbath plant myself upon the morality and tho i'm
muabity Of the fourth of the moral laws Of God,
matter when they givsn or under what peculiar
circumstances Assuming the divine origin Of the nsti-
tuition OF Moses and after the study Of the Institutes
which he gave 10 the rastes when God chose them for
certain reasons be repositories of the true worship
I find these institutes divide themselves into two
CLASSES First the class generic clear and simple are
few in number bat have secured the admiration and
sonousvs form. and great general principles Of moral
obligation suited to all circumstances and conditions of
and Of so absolute nature that 1t is impossible
rescnd them without the entire subverson
society. The second division of them is those which
bear upon the duties which owe to God, and upon
those duties which to our nsighbors aud our
selves and how could society exist in safe condition if
the laws, for instance prohibiting murder, theft, adul
vsrss consent in form absolutely indispen-
sable that II could suppose possible that God
to recall them, would have to proceed to enact
duct The rights Of the ten laws are moral rights un-
changea Die rights founded in the nature things and
the necessities Of the and they have all the marks
of universally We cannot conceive society without
them. Who win then dare to lay scandalous hands
upon this his, code and say that any par. is capa
take my stand upon the original absolute and
the unsuitable nature of the law ITSELF Moses
| claim for it all the authority which be- W.
longs to its associate laws all Of which have been held as
universally true IS suitable and binding if there
"a nat Jay;ub
For observe FIRST that the other laws the laws Of
Paradise and the laws of the patrarchs this
self to the remarkable circumstance that the command
as then in stone by the finger of God takes for
granted the existence of the Sabbath law
to that time and Of the Israetes KNOWLEDGE of the
reason OF It, viz the complete of the creation of the
world BY God The language is Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy and this law is traced to Paradise
when God ceased from all the works that he made and
enjoined remembrs of that which was neces
sary 10 man. either in innocence guilt Like all the
other laws found in company with the design and ope
ration OF this law its moral perpetual and obga
tory character mean by this that ike its COMPANIONS
in the csde it secures the rights of God and the we'll
being Of man Society could not get without
The right observance of this law proves itself be as
from the fact that its faithful observance has always
proved 70 BE- the most powerful preserver Of the other
whether there is of those laws which will be better
observed, men, or community, disregard the fourth
put the law to its right use Take out the fourth stone
of the arch viii it strengthen weaken the rest If
you can show mo community where morals are better
or good, without Sabbath rightly observed a. with
then it will be time to admit that by strange
accident that partial law has found its way into the
bosom Of series Of statutes which admitted to
b. universally necessary 1t be proved that reve
rental devotion OF the seventh part of time the pur
poses Of religion and repose from the cares
and labors Of the world has always gone hand in
hand with love and for God, ana a
regard for the social rights and duties and the main
tenancs OF religion stands identified with the OBJ
servance Of the sacred time greater or less degree
Look upon the Roman Catholic and the Protestant body
am sad to say Of continental Europe Observe the alb
sence OF the observance of the Sabbath there and YOU
will have one OF the principal that brought
presented there. Continental Europe has no Sabbath
One OF the greatest of the Reformation Law in not
adhering to the observance of the day God had COM
manded, upon the ground that it was built upon the
fourth law, and viewed It as matter Of sxpedi-
ency and placed the observance of it upon the
footing a. Christmas and Easter about which there was
no command in the Scriptures old but the intro
duction OF which into the Christian economy In ima-
ton OF the economy of the Old Testament that des
tined to pass away with the perfect economy of
Jesus Christ In the Scottish and English Professionalism
OF that period wefnd the only bulwark in all Europe
against this fale reasoning, that the Law of was
mere judicial ceremony and not essential moral and
infalible principle and obligation The Sabbath has
been the glory of Scotland and England has been
comparative nulity to other parts Europe The Chris
tan Church is bound by the Sabbaucal law and that
law has not been xbrogated by any authority 1t con
firms itself There is principle Of limitation II vas
recognized BY Christ and by the Apostles and
has been transmitted to the Church Of all ages These
are tons and il is impossible any rational
objection can be made to them The gentleman
holy the p ana a hi hs aaSfn gid
welfare depended upon a religious observance Of that
commandment
nounced, and the congregation dispersed.