The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-04-18
A NEW QUESTION.
When Does sunday nrgin7 when doe. ~
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irfo'o'or Tynllll 10 ynoioonlh c,nm.yI
TbcOIogiaus wcrc mortified when first
informed that orr planet was sphere
The question of nntipOdcs exercised them
inra long time, most Of them pouring
rldicllla Oh the idea that men could exist
with THOR feet turned toward us, aud
with their head pointing downward.
think it Is Sir George Airy who refers to
the case Of an oycrcunous individual
hSklnR what We should sec if we went to
the edge Of iho world and looked over.
Ihnt tho oartg was n flat surface on which
me sky rested, was tho belief entertained
hy the founders Of all our great religious
tystcms. Even liberal Protestant thco-
loglans stigmatilol the Copurnican the
Org n8 being "buill on ialllblo phcno.
mcno and advanced by many arbitrary
assumptions against evident testimonies
"i Scripture Newton iinnlly placed
his intellectual crOwbar beneath these
nncicnt notions, aud hcayGd them into
Unbelievable ruin. Then il was that
penetrating minds, seeing the nature Of
the clangc wrought by tho now aslron-
"my m our conceptions Of The universe,
also discovered tho difficulty. if not the
imposslblIity, Of accepting literally the
Mosaic account Of creation 1hoy did
not REJECT it, bat they assigned Ia il
hIenllh& entirely new DR. Samuel Clark,
VINO was the personal friend Of Newton
nnd n supporter Of his theory, throw ont
INC luea That possibly the six days Of
tiioalloh might be u typical representa-
non OF greater periods. ~ CIark's con
temporary, Ir. Thomas Burnct, wrorc
WIN decision IN tho same strain. The
pabba'h being regarded rs n shadow or
TYPO "i That heavenly rcposo which the
'lBl'tcullB VIII ENJOY WHOM this world has
passed away, $50 these six days Of cron-
non 'Ic 80 many periods or millcuniums
i"r which tho world and the tolls and
iabofS Of our present state ARE destined
10 endure" Tho Mosaic account WAS
thus reduced 10 n poetic myih-a view
which alicrward found expression in fine
vast rcycrlca Of Hugh Miller. But if
this symbolic Interpretation, which Is
now generally accepted, be- tho true one,
what becomes Of the Sabbath dnyY Ii
~ absolutely without ecclesiastical mean.
ing and tho mau who was executed for
gathering sticks on that day must be-
regarded rs the victim Of n rude LEGAL
rendering Of u religions epic. There are
many minor oilahuuls Of discussion from
the great central controversy Bishop
liorsrly has defined It day ''as consisting |
Ut one evening and one morning. or, as
the Hebrew words literally import, Of
mo decay OF hight aud the return Of it,"
lint what then, IT was asked, becomes Of
.hc Sabbath in tho Arctic rcpious. where
light takes six months to "dccay" md os
OnB TO 'returu - Differences of lnuni
udc, moreover, render lhe obsorvmccs
If the Sabbath nj fine somo bnnrg in,
possible. 70 some people such onos,ions
might appear trinmg; toothcrs thcywrrc
Of the greatest import. Whether thc
Sabbath should stretch from sunset to
or from midnight To midninLt
woa olsoa subject Of much discussion
Voices, moreover, wrr heard rcCusmo tn
acknowledge the proprcfy of the cbunoo
from Saturday 10 sunday, and tbo doc.
'rlno oi Seventh Day Observance WIS
litcrWard represented by sect. Tho
'nrih's aphcricity and rotation. which
lld at first been received with sIch aG
right, came eventually to the aid ofthoso
iIIlclcd with quulms and difficulties 70. !
nrdlng the respective claims of Sninr. {
~ and Sunday The sun apparently I
owes from east TO west Suppose, then, II
start ON II voyage round the world in e.
westerly direction, In doing So we Il
u away, as 1t were, from the sun, which
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