The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-04
THE TWIN RELIC.
SOUTHERN UTAH, April, 2, 1888.
Editors Herald:

One of the chief reasons why
this "relic should be wiped out is
because it is seeking to engraft on
the tree of christianity bitter
branch of the tree Judaic.
So say the opposers.
But the strictest of the sect of
Sabbatari2ns are, fer their extreme
and fanatical ideas, willing that the
tWig from the Judaic sabbatical
tree shall be grated on the tree OF
christianity-but in the@ way.
The Savior eliminated the idea Of
the Sabbath, as he understood it, in
Mark ii, p, which elimination
should be a sufficient rebuke for
the strictest sect of the hypOcrites
of today,
The seventh day was to be a day
of rest, no matter in what honor
able, Yirtuous way you choose to
enjoy that rest. No special syna-
gogue day. It has been argued
by some political economist that
one day in fourteen would do, or
perhaps no day at all; but the ex-
experience of demonstration has
produced this result. that the
divine economy was the best.
producing the most happily
ing results to man ami beast
"a seventh day of rest.
If the p0lygamous grapes are sour
and the ehildren's teeth at this day
are set on edge because thereof, are
they sWeetened by the extreme
juice of the enforcement of a rigid
observance of Jewish Sabbath as
to pains and penalties, especially
when we consider the Lord of the
Sabbath rebuked those who scorned
his helpful hand on the Sabbath
day?
There is nothing to be enjoyed
fostered or encouraged but what
can be reasonably SO done within
the purview of the gospel. The
seventh day Of rest is typical Of the
"There is sweet rest in the dear Bye
and By" The summer vacation Of
pastor, student or clerk is provocat
| I've of rest and renewed energies Oh
return to his employment. The
enjoyment Of that rest must be, Il
be the Si7le-qtI-7l0 DON, according to hi
peculiar ideas Of rest or change
Some delight therein as Isaak Wal
ton or a Nimrod; some in thu
majestic scenery of our canyons, O
in the days Of dalliace with wit,
and children whose prattle or EN-
brace six days of arduous toll earl
and late precluded his enjoying il
easy slipper and loose fitting appare
The hermit or the deep cloistere
nun provoke only pity from God Q
man.
The zeal of to-day is to clotheHil
and religion with the almost bar
barrie grandeur and awe Of the my
tic past,While the advent Of his So
gives US the indearing appellate
of father as our key word.
It is the mysterious, incOmprt
Ihensible creeds of to-day that re
Him of millions of CONSTANT VOL
A shippers, and make "the one grain {
wit though hammered by Ingerso
into a sheet of empty platttude'
relishable. The infdel truly as sue
is scarce, it is the austerity Of Il
modern pharisee that makes tt
thinker Disguised.
The Samaritan of to-day stands
much approved by him as the phi
iacteried bad priest of to-day is d
pissed.
. The painting of sepulchres
dead prophets is as much the, bu
ness of a certain class of men tod
as Of yore and equally as merito
Gus.
The "eye for an eye"-or st
stand thou aside" or the interme,
airy of the past were buried wi
him of Galilee, and that to resurre
it would be barbaric act.
No where did he condemn t
marriage institutions of the Jev
or institute another form, but
did condemn the pious frauds Of
day who boosted they had Abrahf
= to their father and consequent
the present whether celibates
benedictS.
The spasms of to-day, like @
81 recent blizzard, are to tear up; I
to beautify, but to destroy. I
n an Gent mariner has it:
ce :tHe that prsyeth best loTeth best
%. AL things, both great and small;
MI For the dear Lord who loveth US.
A9 He made and loveth all"
The mariner in his rhine '
right, for it is hard to say at
al great fnality what shall be
a. Judgment.
The rich man was Doubt
amazed to see from his torment
depths the poor Lazarus so Wont
. fully advanced.
his No hymned voice in praise str
vi the martyr when in Carthage ,
tai more alphabetically than 1.-THE
-ay "a Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief;
ord deeds of charity enumerated thel
ION found an echo in his large heart,
if his creed was ssthe brotherhood
ion man"
In my travels through Utah l
'eri | think, a very fair approach
. this, for in many of the towns
villages I see the churches of
sects of the day nestle closely to
Mormon Tabernacle and
EN- undisturbed in worship. The st;
ling ard erected by poor Nazarene is
SINE measurably beyond the adoptio