The Penn's Grove record., 1886-02-06

and many other things | might u Ell
tion such rs are done on the sabbath.
Now the Church gets some Of thcs0
fellows into her fold that lave been On
gagged in the above mentioned sabbath
work. She pats them on the buck ant
t. lis them That running steam boats
and railroad cars on the Sabbath Is no.
so bad after all. It is your bread aut
butter. You are not accountable fUl
what you do on the Sabbath, The
owners of these steam boats and rail.
road trains are responsible for wiat
you do OH the Sabbath day, VIZ think
the Church has taken one step further
than God iustiiies her in doing. When
she reasons in this manner and also en-
COWrages some Of her members to fol-
lew their daily a~yocation on the Sab.
bath rs well as week days, We contend
they are not works of necessity 10
more than 1t would be for any other
laboring man that could avoid it. No
where in the Bible can we find a word
in defence Of working on tie Sabbath
for a livelihood. We think the trouble
with the Church, the railroads, and
other corporations are, the money gods
Of this world. There is a sort Of strife
between them to see which can get the
most of it. In the language OF an en-
ineut Divine, who spoke OF this subject
last summer, he said the Church was
saying TO the world, ''meet us half
way and We will come the other half, -
or in other words, join our Church
and we will give you any length Of
rope you ask for.
Paul says the love of money is the
root of all evil. Oh my, how we do
love it. The Church, of course, at.
tempts to sustain the position it has
taken in regard to Sabbath work, by
using the scripture in its defence, yet
there is not a word in the Bible in de-
fence of Sabbath breaking. We don't
blame these fellow that do these things
as much as we do the Church that tells
them they can do these things and be
blameless. We sometimes hear men
who wish to justify themselves in
Sunday work quote a part Of
the 14th chapter st. Luke, and part OF
the Sd chapter st. Mark, that part
relating to Christ and his Disciples
going through the cornfields on the
Sabbath, plucking and eating some OF
it. Let us examine these chapters for
a moment and see whether we can find
anything to justify Sabbath breaking.
The Mosaic law that came from God
gave the Jews the right to pull a poor
helpless animal out of the ditch or
mire, on the Sabbath day, so Christ
said to the Jews, "Who among you
having an OK or an ass fall in a pit
will he not straightway pun him out "
approving the deed because it was an
act Of mercy. These We're dumb ami
mails. Ii was a matter of life or death
with them and it wasright to pull them
out on the Sabbath, hence we find the
Savior and his D,scipl- s passing through
the ON field on the Sabbath. They
were Gu . mission ofmercy. Their OBJ
ject was to do good, to heal the sick,
to save human life, to help suffering
humanity. 1t is true they were hun
CRY and plucked a few ears of corr to
satisfy their hunger. Jesus asks the
Jews this question, as it lawful to do
good on the Sabbath day or to do evil;
tn save life OF to kill. lie showed by
example and good works that he did
That which was a benefit to MANS soul
and body. Where any one a find
anything in these two chapter in de-
Tense Of the Sabbath breaking, is more
than we ear tell. We will admit there
are many works that cannot be avoid
ed on Sabbath, Works OF ueceE-
Sly, we haven't space to enumcrate
them, but there is a great deal Of
work done that could and ought to be
avoiced on tie Sabbath.
In ~conclsion I will add give us q pure
Cuwch. l would have her pure. l
would have her in Il word, like the bow
Of the armament. Yes, and l would
nave her bright as a crystal current
from the rock and sincere as the smile
Of infant innocence when it slumbers
on the bosom that bore it. l would
have her great but not gloomy mag
uifceut, not merceuary powerful, not
ambitious. 4 voice comes from the
the tombs of oriental saints, a voice
from the CORY graves of the martyrs, a
voice from the sepulchers of all the
sainted dead comes stealing on the
sabbath silence approaching these glo-
rious words: "Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it Holy" TRUTH.