The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-04
THE ADVENTISTS.
Discourses at the Camp Ground Yesterday by
Elders Underwood and Canright.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WABASH, Oct. 3.--The camp-meeting is blessed
with good weather and the little canvas city in
the woods reminds one of the ideal villages OF the
poets The Adventists dress very plainly. They
have an appearance of simplicity and honesty.
The Sunday sermons were preached by Elders
Underwood and Canright Elder Underwood
read for his text GAL iv. 16; IAN l therefore
become your enemy because I tell you the
trnthF He said:
Paul felt the force of these words. He had
an unpopular doctrine to present He had been
evil spoken Of scoffed at, imprisoned, scourged
and hated. His heart had bled for the blindness
of men, He had only tried to do them good;
10 tell them the truth, but they treated him
as they had treated mis- Lord. 1t has ever been
so that those who have unpopular truth to pre-
sent meet with prejudice and opposition. They
are regarded as enemies to society. To-day we
applaud Paul, praise Luther and Wesley, but
the people of their generation rejected their
counsel. We are frequently asked why we act
SO peculiar. Our course Is Questioned why
do you Adventists keep Saturday instead of
Sunday2' We assure you 1t Is not to be peculiar
We would be glad TO be in harmony with our
neighbors and friends If we could be so consist
entity. We believe that we have special mes
sage to deliver, and that the Sabbath OF the
Losd must be brought out prominently before
the people of this generation; but aside from this
It is but justice to answer the question "Why do
you keep Saturday. The SAVIOR has said' ."rhe
Sabbath was made for man"-Mark ii, 81 Jesus
speaks of it as something already completed. 1t
does not need changing or remaking. When
was the Sabbath made?-Gen. ii, 1-3. Thus the
heavens and the earth were made, aud all the
host of them and on the seventh day God
snded His work which he had made;
from all his work which he had made and God
blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, be-
cause that in it He had rested from all His
work which God created and made. Where was
it made9 In the garden of Eden. Out of what
was the Sabbath madel And God blessed
the seventh day and sanctifed it," For whomt
1.-THE Sabbath was made for man." God sanctihed
orappointed it for sacred use, not for the Jews
or the gentiles, but for mankind 1t was given
10 Adam, the federal head of the race. By whom
was the Sabbath made9 By the Creator. And
who was this9 Col, 1-16, speaking of Christ,
says: "For by Him were all things created that
are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones or powers;
all things were created by Him and for Him."
Then the Sabbath was made by Christ. -Four
facts stand like pillars for the Sabbath and
worked six days; second. He rested the seventh
day; third, He blessed the seventh
day; fourth, He appointed it for man
and sanctifed it for the whole human
race. No other day can be like it. 1t was
given to man in his innocence and is based upon
moral principles. Before mans sin he did not
need rest as we do now. He did not have to eat
bread in the sweat of his brow. The earth
yielded its bounty for man. The original design
of the Sabbath was to call mans mind to the
Creator and His wonderful work. The Sabbath
is Gods sign or seal. (Eze Xxx, 1920 "More-
over, also, l gave them my Sabbaths, to be a
sign between me and them, that they might know
that am the Lord that sanctify them.
And haiow my Sabbaths: and they shall be sign
between me and you, that ye may know that /
Am the Lord thy God" A seal gives validity to
law; tells the name of the law-giver, his right
30 rule; the territory he governs. The fourth
commandment meets all these specifications, and
no other commandment does Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy; six days shalt thou
labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day
Is the Sabbash of the Lord, thy God, in it thou
son, nor thy daughter nor thy man servant,
nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle
nor the stranger that is within thy gates.
For In six days the Lord made heaven and earth.
the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day. wherefore the Lord blessed the Sab
bath day and hallowed TEX XXX, Sill
In this commandment we find the name of the
Creator His right to rule is given He made
all things 1.-THE heaven, the EARTH and all that
in them is" is his territory. 1t meets every
specification of SEAL and the Lord declares it
is his seal No one will dispute the fact that the
seventh day-Saturday-is the Sabbath Of the
Old Testament. Is it the Sabbath of the New
TESTAMENT Jesus kept the Sabbath. Luke
w. L. "And he came to Nazareth. whore he
had been brought up. and, as his custom was, he
went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and
stood up for to read All through the New
Testament the seventh day is always spoken of
as the Sabbath. No other day is 1T is the day
before the first day,"-Matt. xviii, l. I'm the
ind of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward
The first day of the week. came Mary Magdalene
md the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Mark xvi, /, g And when the Sabbath was
past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother
of James and Salome had brought sweet spices
TIL N;..k
early In the morning, the first day of the week,
they came to the sepulchre at the rising OF the
SUM-" The Sabbath survived the cross. The
most intimate disciples OF our Lord kept 1t when
the body of their beloved Savior was cold in
death. They longed to 60 and embalm him in
sweet spices, but He had taught them that the
law of God more sacred than anything else.
So ''they returned and prepared spices and ONT
ments and rested the Sabbath day according to
the commandment" When Jesus was foretell
Ing the destruction of Jerusalem He bade his fol-
lowers to pray that their flight might not be in
the winter neither on the Sabbath day Matthew
xiv, TO- This destruction did not take place
till A. D. 70, nearly forty years after the resur
rection, and still the disciples to pray that
they might not violate the Sabbath law.
This prayer was answered Josephns
tells Us that they did not have to
go IN winter nor on the Sabbath.
Jesus recognized the law of tho Sabbath. He
said: 1T is lawful lin accordance with lawl to
do well on the Sabbath day." He was careful
to show the Jews what was a proper observ-
ance of the day. They had heaped their vain
burdens upon it until it was irksome. Jesus
strove to show that it was made to be blessing
to man. Deeds of necessity and mercy were in
harmony with the Sabbath. Man was to go
free that day. His body clean, his sin forgiven.
ae was to study nature look at the blue heavens
md the green hills, grow in love with the flowers
IF the roadside. and through creation remember
his Creator His soul to be refreshed. The
dew of Gods love was to moisten his thought
The prose of toll was to give place to the postry
Of rest and devotion. A song--a new song-was
to thrill the chambers of his soul, even praise
unto his God. If God had given no Sabbath,
ceaseless toll would have stiffened the muscles
of the body and mind. Progress would have
ceased, and man turned into clay
long before he died 1t was a
priceless gift God gave 10 man when He made
him the Sabbath. No day eomas fraurht with