The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-02
THE SUNDAY QUESTION.
,e sabbath Law, Moral and Perpetual.


In the close of our sixth paper for want OF room
We scarcely did justice TO cause, in answering
the objection against he sacred rest because of Its
being ignored in the history until Sinai We nave
seen that this not true in fact On the contrary
there arc just such no.ices as might reasonably be
expected in a history so very brief, and extending
over period Of twenty-five centuries. We noticed
the public worship o. Adam's family; the seven
days of Noah; the seveRs of the clean beasts; and
the restoration OF the law after the exodus from
Egypt, in the Wild, rness of SIN, month before
Israel came to Sinai We just touched upon the
fact that other laws and institutions are unnohced
in that brief history.
Let us expound this last idea little 1t IS argued
by the opponents of The Lords Day that If the rest
was given to man at the begInnlng a binding
moral law, 1t would surrey have beel ottener mem
toned in history; whereas we hear nothing of 1t
until Moses gave Sina; II is therefore Jewish
institution, and w.shsve nothing do WITH IT, This
is the logic of distinguished divine Of the Es,ab
lished Church OF Scotland, aud quite fresh. OF
course my readers know that the cream of
ScOtland's piety ard learning was SKINNED of
from the Church established by law to constitute
"the Free Church" Establishments seem doomed
TO q d. ascending movement; it is exceedingly pro
bablo that this argu nent will develOpe the Coenso
OF the Scottish establishment. But let ms to the
answer. If the omission inireauent mention OF
the Sabbath from Adam 20 Moses proves that 1t was
never given to man as II moral law, this must be
equally applicable 10 each ard every of the ten
commands. They were ell alike uttered in thunder
from Sinai; ali equally written md rewritten by the
finer OF God tables of stone; they leach
and all stand the very same founda'
ton; they must stand, all of them or fall
together. II the Glasgow COcnso has demo-
lisbed she fourth commandment, he has Overthrown
the Dccalogue; no has ann'hIlated tn, whole mora
If GOd and her will he a iubllee SOlOm
Gomorrah, and Panoemonium. Now, dear reader,
would You believe 1t? This conclusion the
Glasgow Doctor swallows. "The whole of the Deca-
Ipgue as q Dccalogue buried with Jesus in hls
grave" ShIs' results. by the necessity of eternal
logic, from tine position taken, that the fourth com.
msndment is purely jewish. But the end is not yet;
tor the same ineXorabe logic VIII force MIN TO reject
the whole Cd Testament, portion; aud yet
further, the New Testament must fall too.
Open infdety is the end of this assault upon the
moral law of the Sabbath. Short Of this no logIca
mind can stop. This accounts for the garng fact
that all the interests OF immOranty-the rum holes,
the gambnR-hOuses, the theatres, the masked balls
"tbe synagogue of the bsrtneg," the pulpits which
'deny the Lord," and proclaim an amnesty in the
world of vocal couspire Overtnrowithe sabbath ;
Whilst all evangelical Christians, of all names and
denominations, "stand up for jesus" and advocate
the Observance of the Lords Day.
Ii any oi the other precepts found in the same
condition with the fourth, as to not beng mentioned
from Adam 20 Moses at SnaI, the same conclusion
must inevitably be deduced against iC. Silence IN
the record condemns the tourth why not condemn
every pIecept IN reference which the same silence
is observed? From this there is no shift: it must
bemet. Let us then see how the case stands. The
first command is, "lhou shat have other gods
before me" Will any peader against the fourth
point out to us the chapter and verse, from Adam
IN yhprai hrs rat 10
man can be discovered so learned in the law,
then ndisputaby, the first command is null and void
q How is 1t with the second? "Ihou shalt not make
unto thee any craven image, etc. Worshlpping
idols or using them at al in worship, is forbidden.
VIII Dr.. Mcleod or MIR. Forney show us the record
of this pIecept prior to NOsesS therefore, the second
commandment is obllterated; away with this Jewish
fgment and give liberty to the human soul, that the
r''free German" aud the scoffng atheist, and the
bigoted ROmanist, may bow down ano kiss the toe
of jew Peter, expel God from His own word, and
rescue civil government from the thraldom of moral
law, aUd all fear of Justice and love to the Creator
The third command isl" Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in vain, etc. IS this
recorded anywhere in the history prior to Moses
Let che place be pointed out. Where is 1t? Ifnot,
then these gentlemen have their conclusion. The
law against profane swearing and blasphemy is not
binding upon us How dare any man reproVe us
usH" How dare you ask free man to swear in a
court of justice, and yet punish him for taxing Gods
name III vain on any occasion be pleases?
The same fate awaits the fifth and sixth precepts-
"Honor thy father and thy mother, etc. Chou shalt
not kill" If these not recorded in the history
they are Jewish rites, with winch we have con-
cern; and what child does not know that such
record exlssS Hence readers, the fearful disre-
gard of parental authority With all the restraints
OF law and the force of instruction under these pre-
cepts how fearful the disregard to parents and how
horribly murders abound Take away these laws
let corrupt nature know there no moral law giving
authority to parents protection TO lite by the pun
ishment OF crmes and where are we! What O stats
of society we snail haVe
awe touched on the law of the seventh command
former occasion, and the compOsitOr mlsread
the manuscript in q single letter, which, however
spoils The meaning by reading wines" instead o
"wIves " "From the days of Cain (Gen. iv, III Il
the flood there is but twice mention made of wives
(Gen v, l9) therefore men had no wives for sixteeI
centuries. ConcuDines, and others still less perma
nently bound to any man, must have been th
mothers of ALL from Lamech to the flood. Brigham
and his harem are new invent ions, il tins lOg
be based on q tTue premise. Let us embrace thi
philosophy in our morat code, ana the Mormon
gospel will supplant the BIB o, and Christian ladie
may attend balls without wearing masks.
THEoPmLUs.
"A paper in Nantes, France, publishes tn,
following letter. which shows tnat the Pope is il
want OF meu:-
''M. pAbbe:-My son returned home on Wed
nesday and handed us your letter. He hos re
solved on setting out for Rome in answer to thu