Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-19
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
The Iewl.n or chsl..Ian sabbath.

EDfToRs APPsAL-permit me to join
Ia the very genersl discussion Of The
holy Sabbath. wish to ask "PastC + "
through the columns of your valuable
paper, II he Ia Jew. Do, he EeEp the
Sabbath day as MOses commanded
Does he wish to enforce the penalty Of
death for not Observing the seventh day
# the week, or what Is his oljtct? ]
remember sixty years aga there were
some christians who believed that God
fOreordained Whatsoever came to psss,
and they would not bake bread on Gun.
day, but on all the other days OF the
week they would do about az other men
| did-get drunk, curse, swear, cheat tc.
Now, that, was sixty years ago, but how
is it now? Has "PastC ~ any right or
does he desire the p~wer that God gave
to Moses? Does he kindle his fire on
the seventh day? II he does he ought
to be put to death, according to his own
law. ask him and all those who adj
vocase the keeping Of the holy Sabbath
day to read the thirty-fiith chapter OF
Exodus second and third verse;, and
see how msny Jews or Gsntiles are 30.
guilty Of the death penalty. / want to
ask Pastor" II our Savior Jesus Christ
was not a Jew in every sense OF
the word, and did he or his disciples
keep the holy Sabbath or ever COM
mand any one else to do go? Did the
spostles-Psul, James or John? And
why is 1t there are so many pastors ad
vocste the keeping OF Sunday, when
that is the day on which they labor the
most? When the young man came to
Christ and said: "Go)d master, what
good thing shall I do to inherit eterr al
/ 10 l., H., h.
commandments he said, tall these
have observed from my youth up;
what lack / yet?u Christ answered:
$50 and sell ali that thou hast and give
to the poor, and come follow me, and
thou shalt have treasure in heaven"
| And ne went away sorrowful, for he
was very rich. Messrs. Editors, could say
many things to you and this very
christian public about not paying little
bills that ought to be paid-tbe printer
among OtheTs-some swearing through,
others paying through. But l mus!
again ask all the pastors "wh0 has COM
manded since the days of Jesus Christ,
the keeping Of the Sabbath day?"
o. @. JONES.
The Medium Between Two Extremes
EDITORS APPEAL-In Saturds y's AP
PEAL l notice another lengthy COM
munlcation by Mrs. Jean Mile, sdvo,
eating the observance Of her Sabbath in
the manner she deems proper and right,
Did 1t ever occur to Mrs. Miller that
there are christians who observe Sun
day as the Sabbath, yet in a manner
different altogether from what Mrs. NJ.
would have? Does Mrs. NJ. not know
that it is more refining and ennobliDg to
| listen to strains CT music, composed by
the great masters, to an instructive lee
ture, and, ss for that, to OneOf the mas
| ter pieces of the immoI tai shakespeare,
than sit at home with long faces, DEEM
| ing it crime to laugh or Sing? al
thie, however, DOES not exclude the du
ties to ones church. / have seen priest
and psrishoner, after service on Sunday
| afternoon, at the concert garden, taking
| their glass Of wine, inteTChGDgiUg jdes S
for mutual bent fl and instruction; and
the Pensioners were good christians
and good men and the Priests were
neither Bsechers nor Bells, but good
practical teachers; no siekly sentimen-
tslity, nor morbid, bignied religious
ideas Mrs. Nj. says: I'VE know that
at the first, when God had flushed the
work of creating the woil ], he rested Oh
the seventh day and ordained it
| q Sabbath of rest" etc. That
was for the government OF his own
peculiar people, the Jews. singular,
isn't il? that God should have estab-
lished Sabbath for the Jews two thou
sand years before there were any Jews.
Mrs. N. apparently does not know that
the primitive christians were only re
formed Jews, attending the same houses
of worship with their orthodox breth-
rem and observing all Of the ceremonial
lsw; that Sunday was not ordained by
Christ to superceGe the Sabbath ordained
by God, but that not until the latter part
of the second century-When the pagan
christians became predominant in the
new faith-was the biblical Sabbath
trsnspOsed to the sD-calied L2id's day.
If people we're better informed there
would be less Misunderstanding and
quarIels. One may be good christian,
and yet be ignorant on many questions
eppertaining to his religion; One may
zsslous, yet be wrong. The best way
after all is to let every one enter the
kingdom OF heaven by his own route
If one lea Is q goGd, moral life-and, i!
you please, religious life-ths iistsLlrg
to q concart " an iastTu tive leefure on
Sunday (s'ter church, If couTst) VIII
not leave Gin OFT in the coli, when the
lopg.facsd peupe take their comfoltsbie
seats in heaven. T.