Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
THE SABBATH CONSIDERED.
Or Reasons Why do mot Keep the Seventh
Day OF The Week - the sabbath Of the
Lord

~ " "O " eoA - tn0 oebbatn OF me
Lord
The Bible is acknowledged by all
Christians to be the only infallble
role of faith and practice; what it
teaches cannot be untrue because it
is given by Divine Inspiration. (2l
Tim -3-16.) The proper observ ance
OF the Lords day is matter of con-
troversy among the followers of our
Lord Jesus Christ as we'll as various
other points of gospel duties, and
while the great body of the follow,
ers of the Saviour have kept the
first day OF the week as day of pub
lie and private devotion wo find
small number of them adheripg to
the seventh day as required by Je-
hovah OF the ancien. Israelites. In
consulting the scriptures we find
that wheR God had finished the
work of Creation He rested on the
seventh day and blessed and sancti-
fled IL but there is no intimation
that he enjoined it on man to OBJ.
serve it as a holy day. for mankind
when the law was given to our fed.
eral head had nothing to do that re-
CURED rest and the Sabbath being q
shadow of things to come. (Col-2-16,-
IL. The Lord did not reveal it to any
until the time when the Israelites
were in the wilderness journeying
from Egypt to the land of Canaan,
which was 900 years after man
was created. During oil this time
we have no account that any of the
saints kept Gods rest day or that
He commanded them to keep it
(compare Exodus 1928 with Neh.
9-11-12-13.14-l5, with Deut. 5.14.
15) and it is evident that the Sab
bath was not known to our race
previously. 1t is clear that God did
not require anybody to keep it un-
til he made it known to them; 80 l
conclude that inasmuch as the rea-
sons given by Jehovah for the OBJ
servance of the Sabbath day did
not exist (see Exodus 31-13) there
was no occasion for the enforcement
of the observance of the Sabbath
day. The law was evidently moral
in its nature 30 that mankind by
the light Of nature (unaided by rev.
elation) could learn something of
the requirements of Jehovah from.
1-20) none could by the works of
nature discern the obligation of
keeping a Sabbath. We learn that
Jehovah punished men with death
for q violation of the law of the Sab
bath (Num. 1886 ,Ex. 3l.14.) while
Christ declares that it is lawful to
do good on the Sabbath day The
Sabbath was kept by the 1sraelites
only with certain ceremonies. Thus
we read (Lev. "a 5, 6, Z, 8. 81. And
thou (Moses) shalt take fine flour
and bake twelve cakes thereof; two
tenth deal shall be in one cake, and
thou shalt set them in two rows six
in row upon the pure table before
the Lord and thou shalt put pure
frankincense upon each row that it
may be on the bread for q me mortal
even an Offering made by fire unto
the Lord.
Every Sabbath he shall set ii in or.
der before the Lord continually be-
ing taken from the children of Isra-
el by an everlasting cover ant, and
it shall be Aaron's and his sons and
they shall eat it in the holy place,
for it is most holy unto him of the
offerings made by frs by perpet
ual statute
Did the Lord command the Israel.
ties to keep the Sabbath with these
ceremonies and require the GeDtiles
to keep it without them? If so He
must have SET up two different
kinds of worship in the world at
the same time. We shall search the
Bible 10 vain for evidence that God
ever did such thing. The Lord
commanded the 1sraeltes to bear
no burden on the Sabbath day Ger.
1921, 22) and our Saviour CON-
manded a man to bear burden on
Sabbath day (John 5-8.) 1t is evil
dent that the Sabbath delivered to
ancient Israel Was shadow and in
asmuch as God has never required
the observance ofany, hing that was
typical after the antelope or thing
signified by the type, had come, |
say it is not manifest that the OBJ
servance of the seventh day Sab
bath became obsolete when the Cos
pei dispensation was ushered in (see
Heb. 8-8, 9. Under the old DISPENSE
ton the law would infict death for
a vidation of the Sabbath (Ex. 31.15.
Mum. Is $50 Under the. new Dis.
pensation Christ declared it was
lawful to do good on the Sabbath
day, Now if the law of the Sabbath
was not changed. | ask did not
Christ sanction the violation of it?
When it can be shown that our
Lord Jesus Christ kept the seventh
day of the week as a Sabbath or
eujoined 1t upon bis followers to
keep it, will try do 30. and when
it is proven that the Apostles re-
garded the old saTenth day Sabbath
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