The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
CAMP MEETING.
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Seventh Day Adventist

WI e1s at EoOAC4I 3 OTOf0s ouuOdgs may
q, 1888:
While was on the road to this place
/ met gentleman on the cars who
asked me, ''why do your people observe
Saturday instead of Sunday for the
Sabbath, . and tried to tell him as
briefly as I could some of the reasons
for so doing, and, my friends, l take
your presence before me this afternoon
as good as the same inquiry. Certainly
you VIII notice and agree with me that
we do not do it for the sake OF popular
ity, for after an experience of about
forty years we have made up our minds
that there is but little popularity in it.
Neither to make money out of it, for
there is no money in it; or, for the pur-
pose OF being odd and differing from
others; although we love union and
harmony, we prize the truth more.
VIII give you a few of the bible
reasons why we observe the seventh
AS starting point will call your at
tentlon to the words found in Elk.
2O:S-lI. Here, my friends, is the
foundation III nutshell for our reasons
for observing the seventh day instead
OF the first, which is che only Sabbath
law in all the bible. l maintain, my
II sso;d that It is not for us
Sabbath. God does not tell
you nor me that we shall observe my
Sabbath, or your Sabbath or the Jewish
Sabbath, or the Christian Sabbath, but
it is the Sabbath of the Lord, thy God.
He has taken the prerogative out of
the hand of man, to decide which day
they shall keep; he has not only az
definitely decided that they shall keep
the Sabbath, but he has definitely de-
cided which day they shall keep. Per-
hapS the inquiry may arise in your
minds: For whom was the Sabbath
made? Some will say for the Jew;
some for all the human family. A
scriptual testimony on this point, Mark
2:27: 1.-The Sabbath was made for man,
Man that is born of woman is of few
days and full of trouble" 1t embraces
Jews and Gentiles, does it not? Again:
ut is appointed unto man once to die;
after that the judgment" You will
see it embraces all mankind, the whole
human family. Our friends sometime
reason like this: The seventh day Sab
first day Sabbath is the Christian Sab
bath. The only weekly rest day known
to all the Book of God is the Sabbath
of the Lord. the God"
There have been three dispensations
in the history of the world.
The first or patr1archal age lasted
from Adam to Moses; the second or
Jewish age lasted from Moses until
Christ was crucifed; the third or Chris
tian age from then until the end of pro-
baton. And it is a noticeable and in
| teresting fact that God at the begin
ming of each of these ages brought out
before the people the day he would
have them observe as the Sabbath. Let
us notice the first of these dispense
/ = H. g -. O,T .
/ By this we learn that God ended his
creative work on the sixth day, and on
the seventh that he did three things,
| viz: Rested, blessed and sanctified,
making it for us blessed, sanctified,
rest day. Webster has given us the
following definition of the word sane
tify: 'Sanctify-TO make sacred or
holy; to set apart to holy or religious
USE" My friends, has that sanctity
binding obligation of the Sabbath just
| the same as ever? Surely it is. Thus,
my friends, you can see that the Sab
bath in the patriarchal diSpensation
was given to Adam, the representa-
tive head of our race, that there were
no national distinctions then. and
they did not exist until $500 years
after.
1 heard one man take the position
that Adam was a Jew in order to have
their position true. Well, if Adam
was Jew we are all Jews! Why, the
idea of calling the Sabbath the Jewish
Sabbath back there at the beginning
of creation! 1t would be just as true
to call it the Dutch or French, or Nor
wegian! Let us look at the institution
of marriage spoken of in Gen. 2: %, "a.
Do you think, my friends, that mar
riage is Jewish, and that we as Gen
tiles have no right to it. Why no one
claims that for moment. The logic
is as good in one case as the other.
Thus as the fact is established beyond
a reasonable doubt that the seventh
day of the week was the Sabbath at
the beginning of the patriarchal age, /
would like to inquire if the same day
was the Sabbath at the beginning of
the Jewish age. Notice Elk. Is: 4, "a,
26, showing how God regarded the
Sabbath by the manner in which he
gave the mamma. God spoke to that
people for forty long years by those
miracles that the seventh day was the
Sabbath, and they could not celebrate
it on any other day.
Let us come down now to the Chris
tian dispensation and see which
day is here brought to view as the Sab
! bath. Oh, yes, you will all agree with
me that the seventh day is the Sabbath
back there; but, say you, Brother
Farnsworth when you come down to
the New Testiment that tells us q
brought to view as the Sabbath for you
is the Sabbath for me also. will read
a few texts of scripture concerning the
Sabbath in the New Testament.
: Matt. PSI: I'm the end of the Sab
bath, as it began to dawn toward the
first day of the week, came Mary Mag
dalene and the other Mary to see the
L &c hn Cal
; cording to that text? Oh! my friends.
such text does not admit of an argu.
ment. Another text referring to the
same event: Mark Is: 1, 2. Certainly.
my friends, the Sabbath here brought
to view is the day before the first day
, of the week.
Luke 1855; PAL 'sAnd they re-
turned, and prepared spices and oint-
ments; and rested the Sabbath day ac-
cording to the commandment" Ac-
cOrding to what commandment? Why.
the only one in all the bible, which en-
joins the observance of the seventh
day. Now upon the first day of the
) week. very early in the morning,
they came unto the sepulchre.'' etc.
showing marked distinction in their
minds between the two days.
; But, you will inquire. which is the
day Christ kept as the Sabbath? Let
us see Luke 4:16: And he came to
Nazareth, where 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.'' The Apostle
says that it was his custom. Webster
gives the following definition of the
word custom: ''Habitual practice; ordi-
nary way of DOING
You Will ask: Did the Apostles OBJ
serve the seventh day as Sabbath? Yes:
and Christ told them to pray they
; might observe and properly keep it fof
forty years at least after that. Notice
Matt. 1920, where he is speaking in
reference to the destruction of Jerusa-
: lem, which did not occur till the year
40 OF the Christian era. Does not
Christ recognize the fact that the Sab
bath law would be binding in the year
20?
Again: In Acts 1874 we learn
. | which day Da,,l and SiIns nI,-o..-c.lI