New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-21
THE SABBATH QUESTION
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SIR: TIE recer. H. sIsts 90 tbs part Of may ia.
fuertia ci.rzers SD clsl .1meH, to ptono;e mp,,
.tc. obtervsrcs Of tue SsbbaH' t.7s %. ben coz
fled 10 cur regtb yrhood, por . orr ors cpac-
ty. frd lors at Gle ir of tbs rfgloi- ~ssk
| ieS, fron which copy TIE first tuo psrsg p1':
we observe eu the late E1s'h paper, tia. IN eo1tr-
vefsy siou: tt' ssbbah op-D-d ard frs ene
o'ogPo9n on be part oft sneuie. Ihs DIIs Ner'ia
be previous eynins pi signed by ab vr buni-d z
sots conrtee with er.,ee sceuoe IN. dne ars ard eacs
hon prsy'ns he House e Commons tbs. al ions sai
r-em.n1 msy b. rmoyrd tia. ts n lna pic
ure galleries bot.aeal gardens .od similar etons .ws.
as hose oi pArocSil municipal foundor thro geou 5he
U:hed Kingdom nsy be opened TO he public srd,y .r
There seems ssys The Record to be DETERMINATION N
the part of ttee 70 nste grand en for tns
country. AID whereas sutoy Of Word waies shall
Judge u the ls. day rs the tuning Of foo:
Io ssbbs.A doSs pssure hi, holy d,y sad
that honor him by no, ius nor hui
trg cur own p.s1re rot Peasp car ew words our nde.a
be csmrey reversed that ng', read the Scriptures brk
wsd AID make wise Of the ssbbs,h
| that day pleasure to the u,;erHo't"
In this extract it VII bs that the .n pom. Of
the srgumert is asiunaed viz: that the Word Of d
commspes to keep the first day Of the reek hoiy'
and that ell WHO e. JOY encourage permit any
.Gon that day, the eLem,es Of the S,bbs sui
Of tie Lord Of tie Sabbath. And this s the s,sump-
iion en- which oil tie recent movements referred 10
above ore based and this, to- s the assumption
which all the arguments in srppori Of those move
uents are founded.
Now, while hold i. to be the duty OF public jour-
naists to uphold the enforcement Of existing lava Di-
vine and human, aso insist on tie duty Of protest
sgarst the rDsnterpretstion Of those laws ana TO-
EXT, further, that attempt the par Of any mao
or any combination Of ren to impose on community
ther own arbitrary Interpretation Of law ths is open
to every Inspector must of necessity reco uoon
themselves, and rure the cause they seek 20 support
What the Law in regard to the Sabbath? In Eko-
due 8, we read:
the - s'es, @ d,y S 70 tp I noy d, s . a.
bah thy Got thou al; do work thou,
.by Thy daueher hJ msu servant nor ny maid
servant thy cattle nor thy stranger that within thy gates
Again in Exodus XXX. ~, &c, we real:
And the spsts Moe. syius sps,t thou also
the children Of ssr saying; Verify ssbba:b "a s- keep
for 5 bS b. nj sna @ yH e 5 @ 5 yoa
Ye s6a Ee,p Sabbath. therefore for /. holy unto you
sce1s sSSs one eoeih Sy Wot therein tbs. o shall E cut d from
elh is ths s.bbsh holy the Lord whO'oeyrr dosh
e1y the Sabbath day. hs shall surely b. put 70 ce.h
serve The sbbsh throughout their fox perpetual
SSsf@'a' SSsf" ac 's" '''"''D ~ '' ''' ''' '''' "
Ard egsin, in Exodus xJxv /, &c we resi
"Aud Moses gathered al the corgoH' Of The children Of
i.rae toshs and sad unto & thF .oa es a. % ; INV wos
shall work BE- done but the seventh day there shall b. -
eth w1rE therein shall be put to death Ye shall
FIRE throughout your hai.aiions upon the Sabbath day
We have in theee quotations, at a length suii rent
for the p1rposes of tue argument the Old Testament
pIscept, commentary and penalty; and they certainly
constitute law stringent the most jealous men,
Der Of S. bbath Committee could desire. Thers is no
RECEPTION or quslf cation about il. Any msu, among
those 10 t-horn his lar is dddrcsscd who shall for
exsmple, kindle fire i'll his house on Saturday or
10 70 ba k;pdlad he nj aid
tervsnt must be put 10 death matter whether or
not the thermometer stands a, twenty degrees below
zero The question remains IT, gh0m IS ms lar 0d-
dressed? And lit safe 10 arswer-Primar to the
Jews in tropical climate.
But what oblies does th, law impose a
Christian community in the bineteenth century? The
answer can be found nowhere else than in the New
Testament
Tho Sarmon on the Mount, which Is nIed with pre-
cepts and ex oratons furnishes no reference to the
Sabbath day. in especial; although ali the other items
of the Decslogue virtually included.
The first M ntion Of the S7b5sth in the New Tssts
mept is in Mathew Xii l-8 and the parallel pas-a-
ges are MsIk il. 1928; Luke " l-5. These three
accounts show that, certsc Sabbath our SAVIOR
end hn disciples walking through the fields, snd
thst the disciples pucksd ears Of corn and se tsem
Whereupop, the Phasees iebuked the dscipiesi not,
it would SEEM for recrestng themselves in the fields,
ror for tskrg belonging to Others, but for pluck
irp and ea.irg corn on the Sabbath day. But the
Savior in tuin rebuksd the Phsrisees srd reminded
them that David, when On hur geIed, ate the Stew
bresd in the house Of God justified the act OF the dis
cioes. and proclaimed himself Lord even Of the Sab
bath; addirg, in Marx ii. 81 that the Sabbath was
msde for man and no: man for the Sabbs'h.
On apother!occssion, Matthew XII. PA Marx Ill.
l-6; Luke vi. GILL; our Savior vas reproved by
the Pbaisees for healing the psrsyts on the Ssooah
day. and he ilstifisd his course by simple and CON-
elusive argument. And similar occurrence Is re-
corded Luke XIII, 10.
Tbese instances are the New Testament version OF
nsns obligation to keep the Sabbath da' holy. They
refer Of course TO the seventh day OF the week, and
involve other parties than the Jews. and, go tar as
they prove ,ythpg, they make against the STINT OBJ
| servaroe side Of the question.
In Matthew XIX, 1913; Marx K, l7-2Oi Lake
xviii, ls-2l, in reply 10 the question, What ehaA
| DO, TO Inherit eternal life ?" Our Saviour rephss
"Keep the eommspdmerts" :" and MS specification 49,
Thou shalt do TO murder; thou shalt no. commit
adultery; thou shalt not steal thou shalt not bsar
fsse wress bor or thy fa,her aud thy mother, aud
thou sbslt love thy peighbor as thyse'f."
In Mathew xxi, IS, 10 Marx XII, %, 81, being the
! parallel passage, we read
"Tten one Of them which was lawyer asked him question
m In The law Jesul said unto him. Thou shalt love The Lot
thy CD vi thv and with a. .hy SOU ar VIII al thy
"a Ike oo M Tho sasl. love tbs u.shbor thyse On
these too eomnaEdme.ts hasg all the Ia and the prerh'
This substantially, as tie ;;hO'e case and it is well
WORTHY of remark tha. while tie former Of the two
next preceding quotations makes no reference 10 tne
fourth conn al dm.nt, the latter when carefully con