Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-17
WAUTOMA, JUNE. % 1879

WAUToMA, JUNE, %, 1873.
> Editor Reporter If 1 have no
understood the ground you have taken
it is equally clear you have not under
stood me. We cannot both be riybt
because God would never intend +,
create division among his children
DID not intend you to keep the first day
OF the week, and me the seventh from
the same commandment and this be-
ing the case, either you or | are wrong
You admit that God commanded US to
keep the Sabbath day holy, so far we
believe alike; but as tc aohen we are tc
determine what the Sabbath day is, [
disagree with you. We must deter
mine it in this life or not at all, because
the Sabbath was msde expressly for
this life, and after this life it will be of
no use to US. Christ says the Sabbath
was made, not for God or the angels
but tor man. This being clear, we pass
ON to your question as to what the
Sabbath day is. God says Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six
days shalt thou labour, and do all thy
work: But the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it
thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor
thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man
servant nor thy maid-servant, nor thv
cattle, nor the stranger that is within
thy gates For in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, the sea, and
Ill that IN them is. and rested the sew
suth day wherefore the Lord blessed
he Sabbath day Cor seventh day) and 1
lallowcd it. Exodus 90, S-9-1O-11. Ii
n Genesis 2 we read, "And God ,
blessed the seventh day and sanctifed
t f.: because that in it he had rested
som all his work which he had made"
,hus 1t Is clear that it is not the first. t
bird, or fifth day that was sanctifed, c
ut the seventh, and that alone of all t
ne seven. 1t seems clear then. that Fl
od has designated particular day "
which we are to worship him aud t.
eep as the Sabbath, and it is equally Il
ear that he designated the seventh a
~ and sanctified it for that purpose b,
language not to be misunderstood O,
his being proved, it fo1ows. that if ds
cd designated a particular day in d.
lich to worship him and to keep as an
ly day, if we refuse to keep the day be
med by him for that purpose and til
bstftute some other day instead, un- tic
$ SO commanded by him, We set our CO
sdom and will in direct opposition to de
}. Is it probable or possible, that th'
en- Gof said the seventh he meant the thu
It? clearly not. It is my belief that be-
d said rtst what he meant, sni TO
ant just what he said, because it is inv
possible for him to err Now then, wr
at is the seventh day? In Genesis
We read, And God called the light ced
7, and the darkness he called Night. sci
d the evening snd the morning were ito,
first day. Showing that he recog- is
ID twenty-four hours as a day the TIVE
re as we do, but instead Of naming of
days, Sunday, Monday, and so on, eve
them from one to seven, has
sanctifed the seventh as a sabbath. nro
eing proven that the seventh day the
he sabbath, it only remains to de- inst
1ine which the seventh day is. tim,
tory Informs us that in the days of con,
Roman Empire the first day was sabf
ed Sunday in honor Of the sun, the a da
nd day Monday for some other rea- abst
and so on to the seventh day as a
h they named Saturday, and as need
you and l still continue to call the
lay the first day, it looks to me bori
asonable for you to ask me if am s,r
God commenced his work on Sun Sabl
If we both admit tlrat he did so, anpe
ask the question! tits unhecessa- Chri
r me to say more about that until you He
e ne dld noe commence on that day. first
lieve with you that God should be in G.
ather, but as God is not the father bless
rong, evil, or disobediance, it is it,
city clear we cannot be his child ion
Inless we serve and obey him in perio
thing be commands without ques- may