The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-25
SABBATARIAN'S VIEW OF
THE SABBATH.
SOUTHERN UTAH, April p, 1885.

HICGOJO ASI UtCIs
Somebody (M) in the Tribune of
April IA. 1853, seems to be terribly
exercised over the running Of trains
by the Denver and Rio Grand Com
pany on the day commonly called
Sunday, which according to his
Christian idea is the Sabbath day.
Since the day of Mount Sinai who
has altered the 7th day for the 1st
Gay as "the Sabbath of the Lord thy
GOdw 1t will be said the Chris
tians so determined, but is there
scihtilla of evidence as to any such
command or desire from the Father
or His Son? In this free America,
free from the dogma of any church
what right has the Christian to say
to the Jew, you must close your
house Of business on the Sabbath
day? given to your fathers in such
awful sOlemnitieS On the Mount
Sinai, because in this established
church country we the Christians
have determined to change the Sab
bath from the 7th to the 1st day of
the week without asking God, His
Son, or man about 1t.
A day of rest is wise, economi cal,
heaven born as evidenced by the
Great Worker on creation, and so
carefully was this rest guarded
that NEARLY a mile only was
allowed as a Sabbath days journey.
Some priests of the Christian
church, to say nothing of the laity,
have to go further than that to
reach their synagogue. Why strain
at a gnat? Why not go the whole
camel? If it is a little over a mile
long to Denver. If one part of the
denunciations Of Sinai is to be
feared, why not the Sabbath days
journey part. God has pronounced
the seventh day the Sabbath. His
son has never pronounced different. |
If the Christians choose in rever-
renee to the resurrection day, Sun
day, to meet and by some means
they esteem, commemorate that day,
they have a right so to do; but if l,
being equally devout as Hebrew
as he is a Christian, choose to honor
the seventh day of God, thus my
fathers and the decalogue, why
must l close my doors, stop the cars,
close the grand and beautiful in
museums or galleries to please a
majority who have only a majority
power and no "Thus saith the Lord"
to back it. If (M) is SO tenacious for
the observance of his Sabbath (Sun
day. why does he not in following
the denunciations against Sabbath
breakers, read the denunciations
against the making of craven images
in any form or likeness. This country
was evoked from chaos to establish
no creed, religious dogma or phan-
tasy of gnat-religious lights; hence
the Christian has no right to push
down in the Jewish throat thesugar
coated pill of aloes compounded by
his Christian church. [ have no
objections to the Christians wOr-
shipping Christ on that day,
for by his resurrection he made
it the Lords day by rising
from the dead, for it is an
improvement to the worship of the
sun, but l have an objection to the
Christians putting the brakes on the
cars because l want to 60 to Denver
or California on the day they with
changing bells tollth people to their
Isynagogues.
Who has made them the keeper
of their brother "a jews con-
science? Who has given to them
the right to break the city charter
by the ringing OF bells" perhaps a
little straight) ? but the tOller of the
bell tolls two or three times that
day.
The seeking to pass a Sunday law
as the priests of Sunday desire, it is
to the Jew an interference with "a
due exercise of has religion" at all
events.
The denunciatiens of Sinai was
against"steps up to the altar" the
polishing Of stone composing the
altar. Steps rendered to show the
nakedness" of the priest going up
the steps "a very wise precaution)
polishing to "pollute' the stone SO
! polished. See Elk. 20, 1926. But
in this last particular, as in many
other things, God has shown him
lself progressive, from the rough un.
hewn altar near Sinai to the pala
tial temple of Solomon or its splen,
did one at Salt Lake.
The worship of the Infinite is as
deep and sincere in the groined
arched temple Of to-day as at the
aforesaid rough altar. He is rever
enced as much in the motive power
! of steam, telephone and electricity
as he was by the devout at Sinai
who were aWe-struck at the noisy
| thunderings. The far reaching
powers of to-day excite the hear
worship of the lnechanician, and hi
lifts himself from earth to God, thu
divine author of the fine, the grand
the majestic. But the devotee O
his Christ would make the devotet
of his Christ, that is, the beautiful
and sublime worship in the heWr
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