Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-23

EDITORS APPEAL have read your reply
to my first article. l cannot permit you to
escape from your own reasoning. You must
hold one OF these three propositions: Either
that the attempt 20 enforce the Sunday order
can be perfectly successful, or that 1t can be
partly succ assiul, or that IL can be sue essful
to no extent even the least. The first you of
course will not choose. The third you will
also refuse, since it Is palpabiy contrary to
fact. Therefore, the second mu represent
you fairly. But the phrase, Can be partly
successful, " Is identical IN meaning with the
phrase, Cannot be perfectly successful"
Hence your argument stands Just as | repre-
sented Il. You hold that any attempt to en-
force law which cannot De perfectly success
fol should not be made. Ard this, of course,
subverts all law. Evidently you have i'm
prisoned yourself, acd Truth finds no key
with which to let you out. While you placidly
smile through the bays of your prison.
shall turn to some OF your other extraordinary
assertions. 1t seems that you would take
away from us christians our Sabbath. To
please you We mus always say Sunday. Now
this is too bad. We fondiy thought we had
a Sabbath. We thought we could intelli-
gently defend it, too. But we must believe
that We are the victims OF childish deusion.
We 'unscrupuiCusiy" claim an institution
which "has no foundation IN our religion"
Now we do not think we are unscrupulous
people. Interruptions, according to Worces-
ter, means unprInciplcd. A bad word, sure
"! Moreover, we viii try to defend OUT
Sabbath. We love it. We certainly 'Rilt
not surrender it without a struggle. You
have attacked an institution which Is dear to
every christian heart. Surely when you
thus invade the sacred precincts OF religious
belief you should bring with you some netO
form of inhdelity and not trust to the anti
nomianlsm which signally failed three centu-
rles ago. You say: "What the law taught
by Moses was for the Jews, we are the de-
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Mosaic law has no claim as rule of faith
and life. Qtalics minel. This is the ground
on which you ask US to surrender our Sab
bath, namely, that it was made not ''for
man." as Jesus Christ says, bat for a single
nation, as you say. Just here l Join issue
with you. assert with my Savior, 1.-THE
Sabbath was made fer man" And I
am ready to give reasons for the
faith that is within me; reasons which have
satisfied lntellects more profound than yours
or mine. First, | argue from the purpose of
lie : boa b. l. va designed 20 comment
oEaFa tAe hnlsi'.ng ui tis8' : work, Ia creation
anu redemption; also, % Ge 2 day of rest for
man; also, to be type Of heaven. Ali these
ends 1t may subserve for Gentle and Jew
alike. 1t was therefore intended for botE.
Secondly, l reason from the very constitution
of human nature. The necessity for 4 Sab
bath Is enstamped upon both the bodies and
souls of all men regardless O. nationality.
fer Injury III all departments of their being.
Thirdly, reason tro4l the TACT that the com
mandment of the Sabbath Is ii the very
heart of the moral law. The substance OF It
Is no part either of the ceremonial law or of
the Jewish civil law. Wherever the oolioa-
ton OF the ten commandments exists, there
also Is the obligation to keep the Sabbath
The moral law, applicable 20 all men alike,
Is as eternal and IS Immutable as the God of
whose will i Is the transcript. The antino-
mlanlsm which destroys the Sabbath must
also destroy the only revealed basis of per-
feet morality. Ard, lastly, | reason from the
HISTORY OF the Sabbath. 1t was gwen to
Adam, that Is to man man. Its date of
origin Is synchronous with that OF marriage
There are traces Gifts observance in the DAYS
OF Cain and Aoel. of Moab, Of Jacob when
dwelling VITA Liban; OF Noses al Sinai when
the command to remember this day was
glver. And so onward through Jewish MS
tory. When Christ comes, he treats this iuss
as he does all the other commandments. re-
forming Its abuses, but abatIug met one lot
nor little OF It's sanctity, making exception
Only OF works OF necessity and mercy, which
really had already been excepted The
Savior also plainly intimates that the insti-
tuition should exist and be respected by his
apostles after his ascension (Metthew XIV,
10. The apostles did observe a Sabbath,
and Christ blessed them IN the act. While
they discouraged The multiplication of ''holy
days, they yet tried 10 be Sin the spirit on
the Lords day." Early christians followed
in their footsteps, the test question Of perse-
cutors being, do you keep the Lords day?'
And SO our Sabbath comes TO Us from Eden,
and we will cherish i until it expands into
the S2bbatismos Of heaven. Your own posi-
ton with reference TO this ever-howInc stream
IS exactly described in these two lines of
HJraCa:
tLS'lc1fS et9ectqt dun deiasat o1lHis; at iIlc
Labltur q ta5et,T iH o0sns E0lu5Iis delztnl