The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-03-15
SEveNsDAY.ISM VS.. AnY-DAy'
ISM.

having been called to an article
written as an editorial in the Friend
of March, 1890, wherein the editor
evidently laboring under a delusion,
wilfully misquotes the immutable
laws of God the Creator, in giving
that portion of the law so rs TO read
thus: "Six days shalt thou labor,
and do all thy work, but the seventh
day is u Sabbath unto the Lord thy |
God" (the italic is ours); in order
to carry out false argument and
prove Seven-day Sabbath keepers in
the wrong. The terms used by the
Author of the Moral Code, as writ
ten by Gods own finger on two
tables of stone, and handed to his
servant Moses, as a covenant be-
tween Himself and his people to
stand forever, reads as recorded
from that day to the present, "Six
days shalt thou labor, and do all
thy work, but the seventh day is
the Sabbath of the Lord thy God"
The reader will please observe, that
our friend the parsol, who "dares"
arrogate the title of reverend, and
is the editor of the Friend, "dares"
also to change the immutablo and
perfect law of the Creator by think
ing to change the definite article
"the" in the law as originally given
in the Book of Inspiration, Exodus
2O:1O, to an indefinite article "a"
in order to controvert the position
which the Seycnday Sabbath keepers
"dare" observe in their worship of
God, evidently forgetting that in
doing so he is actually putting HIM
self above God, as Daniel the pro-
phet says. chap. Z, verse 20, and as
Paul says in Thess. 2:4.
We regret to see men, who claim
a greater amount of learning and
knowledge of scripture, endeavoring
for the sake of serving perverted
custom and saving themselves the
inconvenience and pecuniary losses
entailed by returning to the observ-
ance of the law of God as given by
Himself mid thunder and lightning
and earthquake, betokening the
grandeur of the law which he CON-
manded man to observe, and in the
observance of which a miracle was
performed for over forty years on
this very Seven-day Sabbath of the
Lord thy God before his chosenpeo-
pie, the Israelites, 10 whom the Seven
day Sabbath is created and is ignor-
antly called ",Jewlsh Sabbath
to srbvert the truth and mislead peo-
pie from worshipping God as he has
commanded them.
What use, let me ask the editor
of the Friend, would there be in
any one being held accountable for
the observance of Sunday, if, as the
any .day-kceper claims, one has a
perfect right to choose his day of
worship, one half of the people of a
sugar plantation, or Of congrega-
ton, were TO suddenly change the
seven day to the middle of creation
week? Naturally all things would
lead to chaos, and according
TO the theory of our perverted reli-
zionist, any one would be justified
in doing SO, Notwithstanding the de-
finite command by laws to the con-
trary. Man is not left to distort the
plain command of God, he is not to
take from or add to it, but he is
plainly told Matt" 5:l7) that not
one jot or title OF the law shall pass
till all be fulfilled, by Heavens own
witness made manifest in the flesh,
who shall himself be the Judge OF
its Iitetal fulfllmcnt, not fallible
and perverted man. If the Son of
God tells us in plain words that the
law is Interchangeable, how can the
deluded parson ''dare" to change q
definite to an indefinite expression,
when he strikes out the "the," as in
the law, and wilfully puts an ga"
as not in the law of God. God, who
made the law misquoted by our
poor erring brother, and God alone
can alter his law, and no other, for,
as Paul says, accursed would be the
man that teaches otherwise than as
given in the inspired volume.
Let us see what Scripture has tc
say about the seven-day Sabbath Of
the Lord thy God.
]. God made the Sabbath at Gre.
alton. Gen. 2:2, 3; Elk. 20:ll.
2. 1t was observed before the law
was given on Sinai. EX. l6 :23-30.
3. The command to observe it is
associated with nine moral precep pts
which are binding upon all men dur.
ing all time. 1t is placed in tho
bosom of the Interchangeable law. Elk
2O:S-1l.
a. 1t is sign between God ant
his people. Fix. 3l:l7; Elk. 20:20
3. Wrath came upon ancient Is
rael for breaking the Sabbath. Neh
l3:15-1S.
G. If the Sabbath had been kept
Jerusalem would not have been de-
stroyed. Jer. 1924, 20.
z. Prophecy foretells a reform or
the Sabbath. lisa. 5S:l2-14.
s. The Sabbath will exist in tn,
new earth. lisa. G6.
8. Christ observed the Sabbath
Mark 81.
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