The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-07-12
UlIe d]aily y ,llstin.
MONDAY, JULY II, 1886.
THE WORD OF GOD VERSUS TRADI-
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uerSt00d TO be the revelation TO man
of Gods requirements and in them
we are told that they came not "by
the will of man: but holy men of
God spake as they were moved by
the Holy Ghost Pet. 1921; and
that call scripture is given by in
spiration of God, and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for COR
rection, for instruction in righteous
ness: that the man of God may be
perfect, thoroughly furnished unto
all good works." 2 Tim. 3:16, II.
We are also told that the Father is
willing TO give His Spirit to them
that ask, and the Comforter is pro-
missed to lead disciples into all
truth; and the Saviour, addressing
the Father, says: 'Thy word is
TRUTH" and prays that they may be
sanctified through it, John II :17-19.
BY virtue of implicit faith in these
and other declarations and promises
therein, devout men have, in all
ages, maintained that the Bible, and
the Bible alone, is the only sure rule
of faith and practice; and that any
teaching or example not in accord
with the plain, obvious sense of the
Scriptures, was to be rejected.
The ten commandments are
summary of all moral duty, the
principles of which existed before
the fall; and like all primary laws,
belong to state of innocency:
therefore holy. After the Exodus,
God spake, with His own lips, the
ten commandments, in the audience
of all the people; and, with His
own finger, wrote them sin two
tables of stone;'' thus showing
their holy character, and durable
nature. What may be said of this
law, in these respects, as a whole,
may as emphatically be said of any
one of its precepts. David says:
"Thy testimonies that thou hast
commanded are righteous and very
faithful" and, 81 have known of
old that thou hast founded them for
ever" "Thy righteousness is an
everlasting righteousness, and thy
law is the truth ;" Ps. 1913, 1872.
"My covenant will l not break nor
alter the thing that is gone out of
my lips" Ps. :34.
1t follows therefore, that no
power can change one jot or one
little of this law, and that obedience
to each of its precepts will ever be
required, Matt. 5:17-20. So the
Saviour always taught, and his eX-
ample was in harmony with his
teachings, for he said, 81 have kept
my Fathers commandments and
abide in his love-" John 1910.
The disciples and the apostles, also,
always taught tho holy, and durable
nature of these commandments and
that the test of love to God and
man is willing obedience to every
precept thereof. l John 5:3, and
1920, 81.
The Creator rested the seventh
day of creation week, and, "be-
cause that in it he had rested"
"God blessed the seventh day and
sanctified it, Gen. 2:2, 8. Thus
the seventh day was made holy by
the Creator, and man required to
keep. it holy. When the Lord spake
his law, from Mount Sinai, these
facts were set forth in the fourth
precept. Throughout the entire
Bible the seventh day is said to be
"the Sabbath of the Lord" holy
unto him, and it's observance, as
such, strictly enjoined. In Christ's
and the Apostles day this fact was
not questioned; and, from the
very nature of the law, the desecra-
ton of the seventh day would no
more have been sanctioned by them,
than theft or idolatry.
In view of the foregoing evident
and manifest teachings of the whole
Scriptures, what shall we say of the
labored effort of the Rev. E. C.
Oggel, at the Lyceum, to show that
the sanctity of the seventh day,
given to it at creation by the Crea-
tor, has, in some way, been trans
ferred to the first day of the week;
and that it is now a sin to do ordi-
nary work on Sunday. and no sin to
desecrate the seventh day?
SSH is the transgression of the
law" John 3:4 And "where no
law is, there is no transgression,"
Rom. 4:l5. ''For by the law is the
knowledge Of SIM" ch. $500. 1t
was the law of God that revealed to
Paul the fact that he was sinner,
for he says: 81 had not known lust,
except the law had said, thou shalt
not covet," ch. Isl. Now could
any man learn what day of the week
it is sin to desecrate, except the law
had said that "the seventh day is
the Sabbath of the Lord thy God;"
and that sin 1t thou shalt not do
any work." If so, he is wise above
"what is written"
1t did not appear from any evil
dence adduced by the Rev. gentle
man that God, the Lord Jesus, or
the Apostles, ever enacted a law
enjoining the observance of Sunday
in commemoration of any event, or
in any way consecrated that day as
holy unto the Lord; nor was there
anything to show that God no longer
reuIIirpS the observance of tho en,,