New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-09
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDA Fl NOVEMBER g. 1853.

Sabbaticsl year. mad,' period Of ~ niontA, dlrng
which time NJ he peopi 'reocei together IS brethren
spd sisters even a. they si -eryei ana suffered To-
ge.her II the land OF Egypt; u mn ~ Ia. ne!
always reminded on the G. u =.
Z" Der tina. .hon wa. .ery ant l. me issd OF Egypt
The manner in which thew KEEP. tns SaoDatn days
Is plainly indicated by the Prophet IN VINO
~sd 20 the people Go yorr way; eat tne iat ana
" drink the sweet; and send portions u.1I 'net' iot
" whom nothing j. prepared. for this day y io! unto
" our Lord for the Joy of the Lord l. your 'eugtn.
/" And all the people went their way. 70 es. Sna 10
4" drink, ana TO send portions. ani 20 make s''ea1
mirih.'
The same Review siso .aya
THAT the religious festivals Of Gle Jews were Got
nscetc, but Joyous, in bona ndt sense, - further
demonstrated by the fact, that they were occasions
for dancing. When David brought tho ark from
the house Of Obededom, the Gittite, he not only
sacrificed oxen and fat.ings. but he danced before
The Lo.d with al his might. The ark was brought
into tie city of David with shoutings aud the sound
'of the trumpet he King himself setting the example
Of leaping and dancing before the LORD
This was not Lew or exceptional custom a.
though Dayds wife, Michal, appears 90 have been
scsndnlzei by seeing her husband 30 forgettu OF s
roya dignity 10 dance uncovered, girded only WITH
linen ephcd. For find. at earlier period
Tia: the passage Of the Red Sea aud the overthrow
of the Phistines in ike manner celebrated with
singing and dancing: And Miriam. the Prophecies,
the sister Of Aaron, took tmbrel in her ha1d, and
all the women went ont after her with timb'els and
with dances. Ard Miriam answered them: sing ye
TO the Lord. for he hath triumphed gloriouslythe
horse and bis rider hath he thrown into the see.'
The Psalmist says: Praise the Lord with the
sound Of the trumpet praise Him with The psstery
and harp; praise Him with the timbrel and dance.
MANY pous persons consider dancing, a. any time
a. irrelgious custom. But this ~ evidently not .he
doctrine of the Bible. Not only Is dancing no where
condemned in the Scriptures while the solemn meet
ings' If the RabbiniCal new moons and Sabbath,
denounced by Isaiah as an iniquy and an abom'
nation bu. dancing is spoken OF by jeremiah as one
of the national customs OF the jews, to be restored
when they returned to their land. For be said:
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance both young
men and old together: for will torn their mourning
into joy, and Will comftrt them, and make them re-
ioice from their sorrow.
lwesmin,ter Review. 1859.
From these statements it is evident that the popular
idea of the Sabbath It's origin and design, ssper
fetal as is the substitution Of sprinklng with or a
dipping into, water in the Jewish ceremony of bap-
tism, in place of thorough cleansing of the body
with nitre and much soap der. H. ~ or thac Of
cutting up and eating little bits of bread and drinking
a smal sip of wine in place Of taking good hearty
meal, as was the practice Of the early Christians IN
which the poor fed by the rich as token OF the
equality in all things that would obtain among Chris
,ians when Christ should make his second appearing
TO establish final church-the antelope OF all the
Sabbaths; wherein there should be nei.her rich nor
poor bond nor free, male nor female mo marriage;
but where all would be one in Christ jesus. For,
az common scboolmaster teaches the rudiments
which form the basis of the knowledge to be acquired
in the higher scmnaIies of learning, SO was Moses to
Christ.
Moses, as did all the other Prophets, announced the
higher law Of abstract principle, but administered the
lower law of expedency. In the WILDERNESS, the law
Of brotherhood-love thy neighbor As thysef-was
declared and enforced. Their property and food
lmannal were in common for forty years.
In Canaan, the land is mine, saith the Lord; ye
are stewards Six days the people Right buy and
sell and trade and traffic and who should get aud
keep the most. The seventh day was the LORDS
Sabbath to be kept by each one loving his neghbor
as himself" the rich feeding and ministering to the
wants Of the poorali rejoicing together before the
Lord and each other as brethren.
Six months also they had for me and mine: Hhe
" seventh was a holy convocaton, during when the
higher aw-the law of love-was the supreme law OF
the land Again Six years allotted for selfhood
to develope ITSELF the Legitimate fruit whereof brought
forth debtor and creditor and master and slave; ard
these relations were sustained and contaminated Bst
the seventh year was the Sabbatica year; and when
the trumpet Of this jubilee sounded all debts were can
celed and all slaves restored TO freedom Equality
of person was established and the Lord reigned TIL
umphant for one whole year.
During this year, all the spontaneous produce of
the land was tree food for the Lords people The
wheat, the grapes, the figs &C., were gathered ana
eaten where they grew, by the poor and tatherless,
the widow and the orphan, the Leyte and the stran
ger and the beasts OF the field were not forgot
ten; they rested from their labOrs, ana roaneu tue
fields in peace.
The fftieth year was the Sabbath Of Sabbsths, and
there were concentrated in il all the equali5ng ee-
ments and iraternal relations OF the three preceding
Sabbaths and, to crown the WHOLE the land Itself
the foundation of all selfish property-was restored to
its original and rghtful owners. Thus the last grasp
of the monorozer and selfish speculate on the means
of subsistence was lcosened and MS selfish, uign.e
Gus ascumula,ons were divided and scattered society
be. arno again resolved into it, original elements as IN
the wilderness, and condition OF universal brother
hood was established. A.
Th,se four orders of Sabbaths correspondent 20 the
four dispensations or cycles. The last OF them the
great jubilee of jubees, typided in very perfect
manner the Sabbath OF the word-the fourth ana ast
Ispensation or cycle-wherein self being destroyed,
property is common ;'lust being cruciied, virgin
life remains; the lion, war, being overcome by the
lamb of peace and non-ressance, genteness ana iran
guilty prevail and finally the principle of hate being
suppanted by love God and man, we have the non
counterfeit seal of the second Christian Church as ex-
hbted in the order Of believers lShakers IN Christ
second appearing. FRED W. ~ ~;
Shaker Village Ne, Lebanon Co!unbia Co., T., Oct 5S