Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-06


ed with gospel truth. Ask the German, the
Frenchman, the Italian, whether they do moi
love the Sunday? Their sweetest remem-
brances of childhood, the recollection of hap
by wooing days, their enjoyment of its leis-
| ure in mature life, with wife, children, neigh
1 bors, and the pastor that preached to them In
| the morning, all around them-do they not
| love the day and its sweet and tender asso-
| Citations? Yes; rs much as Truth" loves
his stern, gloomy, scuptureless Sabbath.
Why, then, should the theology of which
Truth" is but the echo, presume te say that
notwithstanding the convictions, feelings, arc
principles of christians of other creeds and
other chimes, they shall be forced to keep
| Sunday, not as they, but as the callers in Of
| the civil law judge 10 be proper. But in tie
| eyes Of the false theology we combat, they,
AID we, ard ali aho 90 not see with thai
theology 5 eyes, are Sabbath breakers" II
is not The first time that piece of theological
rlingsgate--po!itely called the OJium ttCo-
| l0gicHm-hes bee hurled when it was false
and where 1t was unmerited. In john tx,
l6 we read that the phsrisees said of Jesus;
This man is not of God, because he keepetn
not the Sabbath day" We congratulate
| Truth" on one thing-for person who is
| not professional writer he has kept wonder
fully clear of personalities and of injurious
epithets. Something about 'inhdel' and
"antinomian" flowed with gall-like flavor
on one occasion, when uncomfortably closely
pressed, it was pardonable lapse, but the
of
its author. The general spirit exhibited by
Truth" has been, like himself, kind,
thoughtful and honorable. Truths :,
difficulty has been that he has trusted
100 much to his theological teachers
ami authorities, and too little to the gospel.
He has been drilled into considering the
christian Lords day as the Jewish Sabbath
kept on a different day to the original one, to
regard it as suffice to all the obligations ex-
pressed IN the fourth commandment and to
all the Coom so fercely denounced by Moses
and the prophets upon Sabbath breakers.
This narrowress of view he cannot help, al
though searching the scriptures" would
have widened 1t; what we ask him now to do
is to believe in the possibility of some other
view of the Sunday being more correct thu n
the one he has passively received Also TO
ask himself whether it may not be that his
duty lles-not in forcing others to conform 70
the ideas about Sunday with which he was
Innoculated as he was lnnoculated with the
cow-pox, but to receive and act upon those
ideas himself. One last thing we have
to remark, and that is that Sabbatarianism
involves peculiarly Objectionable hypocrisy.
Its disciples call upon others to
keep the fourth commandment, while
they never keep it themselves. "For they
bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne,
and lay them on other mems shoulders, bat
they themselves will not owe them with one
Of their fingers Matt. XIII, T. The four b
commandment commands on what day the
Sabbath shall be kept, with the same gu
preme authority that it commands a Sabbath
at all. The fourth commandment burden
binders without scruple violate the day it
commands; they are calling upon others, by
aid of fine and imprisonment, to obey the
first precept Of the commandment, while they
themselves habitually break the second.
They light fires, cook food, have their house
hold work done, drive out in their carriages,
and do very many other things that are d.
rectly and wholly contrary to the sabbaticaI
law. As we prove our assertions-and one
Of "Trnth's" faults is that he makes numer-
Ous assertions without even an attempt at
proot-we refer to Jer. xvii, 2I-27, and
Neh. xiii, 1922, and the readers of the
know that we could name
many others references, but Let the reader
examine these and observe what Is said
about carrying burdens on the Sabbath, then
compare It with John V, 8, 8, where Christ
commands burden, bed, to be carried on
The Sabbath day, and see also John tx, H.
The reader should not fail to make these
den binders could dare solemnly to force
men as Nehemiah did, when they have
Jbrlot's example to the contrary clearly be- |
lore them. Healing was a work of necessity !
md mercy, carrying away the bed was
neither. In the face of this, if a Memphis |
lrdyman haul bed on Sunday, he will have
ewish coercion, not christian freedom. Ia |
conclusion, we remind the reader that |
Truth asserts unequivocally and absolutely |
hat Christ TREATS this (the fourth) Just as
,e d0ss all the other commandments" This
entence so fatty contradicts scripture state
nent, and betrays such ignorance of Christ's
wn teaching, that, we doubt not, truth"
7lll blush as he reads below what so
thoroughly condemns the false assertions
those who lead the blind into the
itch by teaching for doctrines the
of men. The fol-
owing extracts FROM scripture settle the
Ihole Sabbatariap problem, as far as tile
Jurth commandment is concerned. That
commandment has no authority for the
hristian; it was for the Jews only, as the
ews themselves know and teach; he who
Himself Lord of the Sabbath
ay" entirely left that commandment ont of
he decdiogue whenever He repeated it. and St.
'aul did the same. The events referred to be-
DIV are not always different, but as one evan
elist sometimes supplies what another omits.
o the following are five Independent testi,ro-
les to the fact that the decaloRue, as it comes
D christians authorized by Christ, has 10
to any follower of Jesus 10
eep the Sabbath. Remember the Sabba,h
ny to keep it holy" is a command registered
y Moses, and SET aside by Christ. We give
ne citations in full, that the reader may
now the new testament truth about the
abbath, and see how incompetent an in
ructor he is who has written that Christ ]
eats the fourth commandment "just as He {
oes all the other commandments" an asser-
on that is not only not true, but is the very
oposite of the truth, showing at least de-
liency IN knowledge Of the sacred scriptures. I
Matt. XIX, 16-19.-To one who asked what he must l
10 inherit eternal life, Christ replied: Keep tine
I'M mandments." The person then asked:
" hlch? and Jesus said: Thou shalt do no 4
urder Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou r
an nor steal Thou shalt not bear false witness |
lnor thy father and thy mother; and thou shalt | .
re thy neighbor as myself"
Here we see that the Sabbath is not men Il
med by Christ among the commandments v
at must be kept to inherit eternal life. C
Matt. xii, 36-40.-A pharisee inquired; (Which d
the great commandment OF the laW?r Jesus | l.
q 70 MIN; Thou shalt love the Lord thy (i0d | II
n all tiny heart, and with all thy SOUL and with II
tny mind This is the first and great com | :,
lhumenL And the second is like unto II: Thou | u
az love thy neighber thyself. on these two "a
amendments hang all the law and the prophets, VI
The Sabbath, therefore, is not the great u
nor is it one of those on N
lch hang all the law and the prophets, for OF
S not mentioned here. tt
ark xii, 2S-31.-A scribe asked: (which IA the W