The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-05-22
5ABsATR 0UESTion.

proofs given of the first day of the
week heing the true sabbath, l would
like to ask the following questions,
and present the following facts
Where did you get your proof
that the fourth commandment was
buried with Christ? and why were
not the other nine buried also? Are
we to forget Gods creative works,
thereby not keeping any day as n
memorial of the creation? God
never required men to keep any day
as memorial of redemption. But
if it we're duty to observe day of
the week for this reason, most cer-
tainly the crucifxtion day presents
the strongest claims. 1t is not said
that we have redemption through
Chrst's resurrection but it is said
that we have redemption through
the shedding of his blood, conse-
quently the day that should be kept
as u memorial, if any. God has not
cniOined the observance of either:
God has provided us with memorials
bearing His own signature, and these
we may observe with the blessing of
heaven. When will the professed
church cease to pervert the right
ways of the Lord! Not until "the
inhabitants of the earth are burned,
and few men left; :" lisa. 10, &.
Great stress was laid upon one
seventh part of time. fail to find
any passage in the scriptures that
speaks of one seventh part of time,
or the Christjou .Sujboth. 1t was
said that the seventh day sabbath
was changed to the first day of the
week, or the Christian sabbath, by
the Apostles. Sir VIM. Domvillc
says: "Not any ecclesiastical writer
for the first three centuries attri-
huted the origin of Sunday observ-
ance either to Christ or his Apos-
ties" The New Testament wit
nesses to the law and to the pro-
phets: and that book is said to have
been written, thus: Matthews gOs-
pei, six years after the resurrection
of Christ, or the beginning of the
Christian church; Marks gospel,
ten years after; Luke's gospel,
twenly-oight years after; john
gospel, siXty-three years; the Acts
of the Apostles, thirty years after !;
the Epistles to the Romans, and to
the Corinthians and Galatians,
twenty-four years after; Ephesians,
Colossians, and Hebrews, twenty
nine years: to Timothy, Titus. and
the second epistle of Peter, thirty
years: the Revelation of John, sixty
one years; his three epistles, about
siXty-livc years after the resurrec-
tion, and after the church had pro-
perly commenced. But yet neither
Matthew nor any of the Apostles
has told us word about the Sab
bath being changed from the seventh
to the first day of the week. What
did Mark mean by the word Sab,
bath chap. 1871, =. Surely, il
the Sabbath had been changed al
the resurrection of Christ, Marx
would have known it within tel
years afterward. What did Luke
mean, who wrote twenty-eight year:
after the resurrection of Christ
chap. 23:56. Thus Luke nnder
stood the words Sabbath day" il
the Gfty-cighth year of the Christian
era, to mean the day immediatel,
preceding the first day of the week
How did John understand this sub
iect in the sixty-third year of th'
Christian church? He plainly shows
that the first day of the week wa
considered a business day by th'
disciples after the resurrection. |
the apostles Of our Lord called th
seventh day the Sabbath day, six
ten, twenty-eight, thirty, and sixty
three years after the church wa
fully commenced; then why shoul'
it not be the Sabbath day now l
regard to the disciples meeting o.
the first day of the week, job
20:l9, the disciples did not the
believe that their Lord had bee
raised from the dead, bat were as
sembled for the purpose of eatin
common meal, and to seclud
themselves from the Jews.
Bv what law was the knowledg
of sin twenty-four years after tn
= resurrection of Christi Answer
, The very same law that was give
when il said, 'Thou shalt nC
+, covet." Now, until this law
altered or abrogated (and Chris
says he "came not to destroy til
lawD by the same power th;
f enacted it, wilful transgression of
f is wilful sin; for sin is the trans
r. gression of the law. Paul say!
e "The law is holy, the commanC
4 ments holy, just and good" Rea
p. Rom. 3:31. Rev. 22:l4.
u Admissions IN favor Of truth fro
the ranks of its enmies, constitu
the highest kind of evidence. ID
- Peter Heylyn says, ''Thus do "
" see upon what ground the Lord
o day stands: on custom first, an
voluntary consecration of it to +
G ligious meetings; after, from Il
canons and decrees of councils, ii
IS decretals of popes, and orders
IS particular prelates, when the so
managing of ecclesiastical affai
e was committed to them. The Lord