Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-08-02
Plain Facts.

1 asnlngtOnt N. liz DeSldeS several Advent
ministers, commenced its observance during
that year. Their faith and action was then
and is now, based exclusively on the ten COM
mandmeAts and the gospel Of Christ. The
seventh commandment saws: "The seventh
day is the Sabbath, remember it and keep il
holy" 1t also tells us to work six days /; thus
God has shown the people what they should
do on each day of the week.
The sermon of Christ on the Mount for
ever fixes the obligation of the fourth com
mandment upon all people. Do you not hear
him say Think not that have come to de-
stroy the law, or the prophets l am not come
to destroy, but to fulfill. For verify say unto
1 you. Till heaven and earth pass, one iot
or one little shall in no wise pass from the
| law. till all be fulfilled. Matt 5 :17,lS. Here
| is law the perpetuity Of which is affirmed in
the strongest terms till the end of time till
all things spoken of by the prophets are fulfill
ed. For whatsoever is affirmed OF code Of
| laws as a whole is equally affirmed of every
precept composing that code. Hence the SOL
l emn admonition, which Christ utters Not to
| the Jews as such, but to the disciples, Hear
it: whatsoever therefore shall break one of
| these least commandments, and shall teach
man So he shall be called the least-of no es-
teem-Campbelps translation-in the kingdom
of heaven but whatsoever shall do and teach
them, the same shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven. Matt5:19. And then, He
saws The sabbath was made for man and not
man for the sabbath therefore the Son of
man is Lord also of the sabbath. Mark 2 81
g. He farther says: The word that have
spoken, the same shall judge him in the last
day. John 12:48. This is my beloved Son, in
whom am well pleased; hear We him. Matt q
s. And it shall come to pass that every soul
~ x,sl haar that nrnphat Sha N ha do
stroyed from among the people. Acts 49,
And why call We me Lord, Lord, and do not
the things which / say? Whosoever cometh
to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth
them, will show you to whom he is like: He
is like man which built an house, and digged
deep. and laid the foundation on a rock /; and
when the flood arose, the stream beat vehem-
emily upon that house, and could not shake it;
for It was founded upon rock. But he that
heareth and doeth not, is like a man without
A foundation built an house upon the earth :;
against which the stream did beat vehemently,
and Immediately it fell and the ruin of that
house was great. Luke 6:46-49.
Dear reader, do you not think that accord
ing to the fourth commandment, and Christ's
word, your Sunday, house arguments are on
the sand, and will not stand the test of the ap>
preaching storm, see you cannot find even
one plain text to sustain it, May God help you
to reform at once, and keep His holy Sabbath,
so that your conduct may be in harmony with
His law, ard the gospel of His dear Son, that
you may be called great in the kingdom of
heaven.
But the reader inquiries how this change Of
the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day
of the week has been brought about
We answer by the Catholic church. We
read concerning that power in Dan.7:25. And
he shall think to change time and laws:
Now read from the Catholic Christian In,
structed, by DIR. Challoner, page 254. "But
has the church the power to make any alter
alton in the commandments of God ?" Ans.
"The commandments of God, as far as they
contain his eternal law, are unalterable and
indispensable, but as to whatever was only
ceremonial they cease to oblige, since the
Mosaic law was abrogated by Christs DEATH
Hence, as far as the commandment obliges
US to set aside some part of our time for the
worship and service of our Creator, it is an
unalterable and Interchangeable precept of the
eternal law in which the church cannot dis,
pense: but for as much as it prescriDes the
seventh day in particular for this purpose, it
is 10 more than ceremonial precept of the
old law, which obligeth not christians. And
therefore, instead of the seventh day, and
other festivals appointed by the old law, the
church has prescribed the Sundays and
HOLIDAYS to be set apart for Gods worship;
and these we are now obliged to keep in con-
sequeace of Gods commandment, instead of
the ancient Sabbath"
Reader, do you not see who changed the
Sabbath You see also that it has been done
without divine authority.
Cues Which are the days which the church
commands to be kept holy? Ans. First the
Al. IJa Ioxr IsaI, oh,
by apostolic tradition, instead of the Sabbath.
Ones. What warrant have you for keeping
the Sunday, preferable to the ancient Sabbath
which was the Saturday? Ans. We have
| for it the authority of the Catholic Church
and apostolic tradition.
Dues. Does the scripture any where CON-
mand the Sunday to be kept for the Sabbath !?
Ans. The scripture commands us to hear
the church, st. Matt. Is: II. st. Luke 1915
and to hold fast the traditions of the Apostles.
2. Thess. 2: 15, but the scripture does not in
particular mention this charge of the Sabbath.
st. John speaks of the Lords day Rev. lilo
but he does not tell us what day of the week
this was, much less does he tell us that this
day was to take the place of the Sabbath or
dained in the commandments: ST. Luke also
speaks of the disciples meeting together to
break bread on the first day of the week, Acts
20: z. And st. Paul. Cor. l6: orders that on
the first day of the week the Corinthians
should lay by in store what they designed to
bestOw in charity on the faithful in Judea, but
| neither one nor the other tells u.s. that this
| first day of the week was to be hence forward
| the day of worship and the christian Sabbath
| so that truly, the best authority we have for
| this is the testimony and ordinance of the
church. And therefore those who pretend to
be so religious observers of the Sunday, whilst
| they take no notice of other festivals ordained
by the same church-authority show, that they
| act by humor, and not by reason and religion;
| since Sundays and holidays all stand upon the
| same foundation, viz. the ordinance of the
church." PIP. 252, 253.
Now what right have ministers to say that
| Christ changed the Sabbath, when they know
| or ought to, that the Catholic church changed
it more than five hundred years this side Of
the resurrection of Christ? But God says,
"They shall turn away their ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables. Tim.
A.
But Christ in speaking of His Fathers law
said: Blessed are they that do his command
ments, that they may have right to the tree
of life, and enter through the gates into the
city. Rev. o. IA.
May the Lord help the people to remember
Christ's declaration; If the blind lead the
blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Matt To-
IA. Lord save the people from the deception
of fable teachers. /. SANBoRN