Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-08-02
Sunday is the Christian Sabbath.

HERALD of July -, 1877, find over your sig
nature, "a liberal OFFER and reasonable re-
quest" in which you ask twill any one in
Lancaster or in Grant County be so kind as
to show us one plain text in the Bible that
teaches that the first day of the week, called
Sunday, is the Sabbath, or Lords day? If
any person will find such text and bring it
to the tent now pitched in Lancaster, they (he)
shall be rewarded with twenty-five dollars for
their (his) trouble"
Your proposition is vague, indefinite, and
uncertain as to who shall decide whether the
texts advanced is sufficient to meet your de-
mand or not. .sAll the world and the rest of
mankind except yourself may see in the texts
such teactinq but it is hardly to be expected
that vou could see it against your own interest
TO the amount Of $500. The fair way would
have been to appoint an umpire of neither
your or the writer's faith, to decide. Another
unreasonable point in your proposition is the
condition (l) st must be brought to the
tent nor pitched in Lancaster. Now, did
not know or hear of your proposal till 10 days
after it's publication when a friend in Grant
County sent it to me with a request for me to
answer it. And my distance from Lancaster,
the time necessary TO write, and trl.weekly
mail must delay the answer, probably ~ days
more And as | have seen no notice, and
have no means of knowing how long your tent
may remain up at Lancaster, must resort to
the press, to present an answer. W You nm
il the answer to 'any person an Lancaster or
~ Grant County" Now, | have no doubt but
many persons in that county could answer
vo,,t question, but they may not feel disposed
| 10 do so. And though | was in Grant county
~ wears ago, and have been in it hundreds
| Of times since, yet as | reside ont of the coun>
| ty.you might reject the answer on that ground,
however strong and clear the proof might be.
The fair way would have been to leave the
world open for an answer, II truth is your
object
The point raised is not that any text de-
clare in Just so many words, but whether any
ono or more texts teaches it. The constitu
lion of the U. S. plainly teaches that onr gov,
eminent is a representative Republic, but it
no where SAYS so in so many words. The BIZ
HE Mainly teaches the doctrine Of the TIN.
itv in the God>hcad, and your articles of relig
ion as published in the same paper with yoar
nronosaI, clearly recognizes it but the word
Trinity is not found in the Bible, and if | pres
sent one or more texts that plainly teaches,
when taken together, the point in question, it
should be sufficient.
In Matt. % 1-6 is given an account Of the
resurrection Of Christ, i'll which il is said I'm
| the end Of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn
towards the first day of the week came Mary
| Maodalene to the Sepulchre" to whom the an
Gel said "He is not here for He is risen.o
| Mark 16: 1t, SAYS: every early in the first
day Of the week, they came to the Sepuchre@
and the angel saith unto them
We seek Jesus of Nazereth which was cru~
cited He is risen he is not hcre;" In Luke
| "a. ID. it is said "Now upon the first day
| of the week, very early in the morning, they
| came to the Sepulchre" and the
ANGEL said: "Why seek ye the living among
| the dead /? He is not here, but risen" John
| %. | The first day OF the week cometh Mary
Macdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto
| the Sepalchre, and secth the stone rolled
| away. and " 16, says: Jesus showed himself
| TO her alive" All this teaches that Christ
rose from the dead on the first day of the
week. And each passage, and its connections,
| shows that the deciples were assembled on
that dav in way that indicated divine wor-
| chin. II is remarkable that each evangelist
| should be so particular to mention the first
day of the week They had an object in it.
John 20: 10, is the most explicit. "When
| the same day, (of the resurrection) at evening,
being the first day of the week. Again, when
| tho doors were shut came Jesus
and stood in the midst, and saith unto them,
naace he unto YOU" This clearly indicates
| that thew had assembled for divine worship,
| in honor Of the events of the day. 1t was
| the greatest day the deciples or the world
had ever seem in it was finished in triumph
the redemption Of the world, ruined by the fall;
which was a greater work than the creation of
itself. They had seen dead men restored to
| life. as they had never before, by the word of
Jesus but now lie had raised Himself, and so
spiritualized His body the walls and shut doors
| Of the house could not prevent His passage
| + nv for hav hoH
hands and side, and the marks of the nails
and smear and they knew His voice yet He
| could appear and vanish at pleasure All
| this indicated His divine as well as human ma
/ ture. His resurrection ensured the pardon OF
| sin fur ale was raised for our justification. y
| Rom. 4:25. If "thc morning stars sang to-
getherp at the creation of the world, it was
proper and fitting that redeemed men should
| meet and worship their Redeemer or the day
| that He redeemed them, and il the day of the
| week on which the creation was finished was a
proper and fitting day for rest and worship as
| n memorial of that event, surely the day of the
week on which mans redemption was finished
was more fitting for such honors.
Reyond all doubt the resurrection was the
occasion Of the assemblage of the deciples on
| that memorable evening. The events of the
| day naturally engrossed their thoughts. Some
Of them had seen and heard their risen Saviour
| ON that day. They could have no greater
proof of his divinity tnat God was in him
! manifested in the flesh, and the appearance of
Jesus in their midst, aud blessing them, sanc-
| toned the day as one specially for worship,
Jesus had previously told them that ''where
two or three are gathered together in His
name, there is he in the midst Of them Matt.
Is &c, and the deciples being so gathered on
| the evening of the day Of His resurrection, it
being the first day Of the week, he appeared
in their midst, and thus appointed and conse-
Grated the first day of the week as the
| Christian Sabbath or Lords day.
| If the 4th Of July commentaries the birth
of our Nation; the first day of the week does
the same for our redemption. The Israelites
were commanded to remember the day in
which they came out Of Egypt Elk. 10: g.
The Negroes in the South celebrate the anni-
versary of their enamel patton, and all the civ