Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-08-14
More About The Sabbath.


More About The Sabbath.
Mr.. EDITOR: In your paper July
10th, 10, | saw piece entitled, "The
Sabbath considered, or reasons why
] do not keep the Seventh day of the
week as the Sabbath Of the Lord"
Now if you will give me little space
in your paper, l would like to state
briefly. few reasons why l do keep
it as the Sabbath of the Lord. The
gentleman says, "the Bible is ac-
knowledged by all christians to be
the only infafiiblc rule of faith and
practice and what it teaches cannot
be untrue, because it is given by Di-
vine Inspiration" Here | agree with
him exactly. Now let MS see what it
says about the Sabbath ; First !; the
Interchangeable God has said, "The
Seventh day is the Sabbath of the
Lord thy God" Do you believe it ?
or will you accuse him OF falsehood
Do not do it. beg of you as you
value eternal life don't do it. Ii He
says the Seventh day is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God if He has hal
lowed it, blessed it, sanctified it, and
told us to remember it, and keep it
holy, then let us obey Him for with
out obedience to God We have no
promise of eternal life. We can no
no more change precept in
Gods divine law--the Deca-
logue-than we can change our own
birthday to some other day. It is
impossible. Neither should we wish
to change il. But rather let us say
in the language of Scripture, Let God
be true and every man a liar. But
perhaps you will urge the laws of our
country then must meet you with
Scripture again. Although / am
law abiding citizen and love the laws
of our country, still if they conflict
with the law of God, | must say in
the language of Peter, Whom shall
we obey, God or man? His law was
spoken by his own voice, written with
his own finger, and engraved on ia
bles of stone, for what? tor man to
destroy, make better, or lay aside !?
No, indeed for the psamist says, 1t
is perfect, converting the soul; and
Paul says it is holy, just and good.
Again we read (Eccl last chapter, Is
verse; that it contains the whole duty
of man. Shall we try to make void
one precept of that law Never !;
for it will remain the same immutable,
Interchangeable law; not precept de-
tached, and we must change the whole
or throw away all. Christ says, Matt.
5:18) Till heaven and earth pass, one
jot or one title shall in no wise pass
from the law. Has heaven and earth
passed ? No. Then every precept is
there, the same law that Jesus said
He did not come to destroy the
Same law that He magnified and
made honorable. Then, ask you in
His name, is it not an honor as we'll
as duty for us to keep every pre-
cep.? | am sure it is 1t looks very
strange to me that any Bible student
should quote COL 2:l6 which they
certainly ought to know referred to
nothing but the old ceremonial law,
to try to evade Gods divine law
Surely there is no need of confound.
ing those two laws one was wholly
ceremonial stood only in meats and
drinks and divers washings and car
nal ordinances imposed on them until
the time of reformation, Heb. 9:l0)
while the other extends to the end of
Time and must be kept as a con1i.
ton of eternal life-(Matt. l9:I6-19o
But, says one the Savior did not tell
the young man to keep the Sabbath.
That is very true neither did He tell
him not to bow down to idols and
worship them; nor did He say a
word about the Sd commandment
which says, Thou shalt not take
the name of the Lord thy God in
vain Still you believe those two
precepts to be binding. You also
believe nine tenths OF the Decslogue
to be binding. Now | would ask
you, what is the matter with the other
tenth? Oh. | will tell you; the Ro.
man church claimed they had the ex.
elusive right to change the Sabbath
to the first day of the week and
vast majority have seen fit to accept
the change; leaving, Gas brother ID.
says) only small minority to rever-
ence Gods holy Sabbath. Well, if
you will read Isaiah 5s:l3-14,) you
will see that God has spoken to us by
the prophet concerning this matter
showing that His Sabbath would be
trampled under foot /: for he says, If
thou turn away thy foot from the
Sabbath, Showing that it was under
their feet) from doing thy pleasure
on my holy day; well here we have
found the Lords day, for He calls
the Sabbath my holy day. Now we
have the whole thing in nutshell.
The Sabbath is His holy day, and
the seventh day tnot the first) is tie
Sabbath of the Lord thy God /: and
.(Rev. l:l0) is the same day exactly.
God has never claimed any other day
as his, but the Sabbath. Again
brother d. saws, 1--WE have no scru-
pies in regard to the 2nd command
ment that forbids likenesses, or pic
lures of any kind. Here again, he
has things as badly mixed as he had
the two laws; for certainly any one
ought to know the difference between
photograph and craven image I;
one is kept only in remembrance OF
friend, while the other is made ex
pressly for an object of worship. We
don't bow down to our pictures and
worship them, and this was what God
was talking about. Please read all
of the second commandment and you
will see he says Thou shalt not bow
down myself to them, nor serve them.
With these few lines | will close. 1t
was with great reluctance that | took
the pen, knowing that was not COM
petent, still / felt it duty, and hope
all who may read the piece will
search the scriptures to see whether
these things are so. From
BELTEvRE.
"THE American heroine IS 10 the
air, new product like some rare
orchid. No woman was ever in
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