The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-11-04
Gbe Mara guurnaI.
MARIA, GA,
THURSDAY MoRNlOvEMsER a, 1896
The Chrig Sabbath. .
A Sermon Deliver Rev. C. e. Leman
at st. James Oh, Marietta, Ga.

Remember Sabbath day to
keep it holy. Says shalt thou la
Dor and do all work But the
seventh dav is Sabbath of the
Lord thy God; t thou shalt do
no manner of wp-Ex. Xxx. 8, 8,
| 10.
AS the whole EN- of Christian
doctrine circles und and is de-
pendent upon Resurrection of
Jesus Christ; sc whole system of
Christian worshircles around and
derives its signince from it's COM
memoration feasTherefore, we see
a natural resulta weekly instead
OF but yearly rel of Resurrection
reJoicings. For, key note of Sun
day, you know, ut sound wave
let of the joyful alings of Easter
bells.
but while 1t lot surprising that
the great doctri of the Christian
religion, and t most important
event OF our Los life, should be
thus often celebed Z; to the unin-
formed, puzzl circumstance is
connected with 1T sets aside and
replaces the Diely ordained Jew
ish Sabbath.
To clear awane misgivings that
this might give e to, tits necessary
that We should nsider the history
of the Jewish dnance.
The Hebrew I'd for Sabbath has,
please bear in nd, a double etymol-
ogy. The root the voweless He
brew, may me; either crest" or
seven, accorCg to the vowels used.
Besides constrd so as to make the
Hebrew word cry chiefly the idea
of 'seven," it ~ refer either to the
portion OF time.lotted or the partic-
nlar day of thislotment. But there
IS no especial derence how we use
he term, save at We be careful to
ct 1t bear the 80 ideas OF "rest"
md "seven," hh of which are com
in t. translation of it in
o Sabbath
The ordinam is first observed as
he fourth o ten commandments
which were devered by God to Mos
IS, amidst thehunders which shook
Slnai's terribt mount. Each is a
poke in the bance-wheel OF the ma
of Cos moral law.
The fourth ,oke upon which the
trength of tn wheel depends, is the
citing a partof a certain day of
very seven, ,r a special memorial
lay, consecraed to Gods service,
nd to supply mans necessary
mount OF res on suspension Of la
'or. Now it especially to be no
iced that in tie Goth chapter of Elk
dus, the frstrecord of the ten Mo
alc commandments, there is reas.
n assigned fc the observance of the
eventh or S@ba:h day.
For in sixdays, the Lord made
eaveL and erth, the sea, and all
lat in them s, and rested the sew
nth day; therefore" wherefore,
lat is, for this cause, -"God blessed
le seventh cay, and hallowed it.. y
other WORKS, it says, God sancti-
ID 1t becau'e it was His rest day.
lease bear dis fact in mind.
No we pass to another and later
'riod of lsrael's history. We have
1t Sinai, ana the tortuous wander
gs through ne wilderness. Muir
urers have been cut off from the
raelitish camp, or slain and con-
med by the visitations of Gods dis
easure until a great change has oc-
lrred in the wandering horde. AT
myth we stand on the eve of the en-
ance into the promised land and,
Notwithstanding the great changes
at have occurred, enough of the
iginal stock of those who followed
oses from Egypt remains to identi
them as the Israel who were thus
,livered. At this juncture Moses
'hearses in their ears the ten orig
al Slnaitic statutes. From the tone
his address, it is evident that tn,
venth-day observance had beer
Their wholly or partially abandoned
ow shilling acting and speaking un
n Divine inspiration, he recalls
.em to obedience.
But when he reached the fourth
he gives new reas
4 for the establishment of the Sab
18th day. But the seventh day i.
le Sabbath of the Lord thy God il
thou shalt do no manner of work,
C. And, " continues he, "remem
IF that thou vast a servant in The
nd Of Egypt, and that the Lord thy
cd brought thee out thence through
hand and a stretched out
IN +; therefore, the Lord thy Coo
'mmanded thee to keep the Sabbath
~"
Thus it is seen that in the promul
Ition 81 the ten commandments, tn.
asOa OF the observance Of the Sab