The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-03-15

at Corinth "every Sabbath" Acts
1874.
IS. lie continued there year and
six months (7S Sabbaths) "tcaching
the word of God" Acts 1871.
10. Finally in the last mention of
it in the Bible, it is called the Lords
Day." Rev. 1910. Compare this
text with Elk. 20,l0; Isa. S:13;
Mark 2:2S.)
We have quoted these texts of
scripture tor the edilication of our
poor and deluded parson, and 9TH
ers who may inadvertently have been
led by these blind teachers to believe
as they do. He gives as reason
for not observing the seventh day of
the week, because it is not so stated
in the fourth command, and chal-
lcnges proof to the contrary. After
the first six days of creation and
when his work was completed, God
rested on the seventh day and hal
lowed it, i. e., set it apart for spe-
cial use and commanded man by law
| to observe it ever after every sew
enth day in commemoration Of him
Us the creator of man and oil else
that was created. We are in like
manner expected to keep Sunday,
the first day in the week, according
to human laws, and the observance
of any other day for Sunday would
receive from the same source a round
of false arguments as is here pro-
duced against the observance of one
particular day as commanded by d.
vine law. The Sabbath is memo
rial of what the Creator did during
the first week of time. He wrought
six days and rested on the seve nth
day. Here is the origin of the week,
which our editorial parson seems 10
have lost sight of in his efforts to
quiet his own conscience in trans
crossing the law by observing some
other day not authorized by the law
Sunday, the first day of the week.
The weekly cycle is not derived
from anything in nature, Months
are suggested by the phases of the
moon; years by the returning sea-
sons; but the week can be only
traced to the six days of creation,
and the seventh day Of rest. The
patriarchs reckoned time by weeks
and sevens of days.-Gen. 8 ;l0-l2 !;
29:27-2S.
The Sabbath was instituted in the
beginning of the Creation in Eden,
at the close of the first week of
time, by three acts on the part of
the Creator. First, God rested on
the Seventh day. Secondly, lie
placed his blessing on the day.
Thirdly, He sanctiiied the day of his
rest. 1n'resting on the Seventh-day,
he set an example for man. He
blessed the day of his rest. He
then sanctified, or "set apart to q
sacred use,' the day on which he
rested. He gave the first six days
of the week to man, and reserved
the seventh day to himself to be
used sacredly by man. The rest on
the Seventh-day was not because
God needed rest from physical ex-
haustion, but because he ceased to
create. Another reason is given fol
the Sabbath. "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 Sabbath-day
and hallowed It," Elk. POLL.
This reason relates to what God did
in the first week of time, and he has
given no other. Man rests on the
Sabbath-day to remember his Creator
and to do him honor, and wherever
his eyes may rest, he beholds in al
he sees the Creators works. Thus
by contemplating his works on the
holy sabbath day man is led from
the countless varieties of nature Il
see the wisdom and power of Coo
in creating all in six days, and OIL
being drawn from nature to nature:
God, the Sabbath becoming the core
that binds the creature to the
Creator. The Sabbath is the COLDER
chain that links earth to heaven, ant
man to God. BY Il strict observance
, of this day of rest, a blessing il
I promised to man, and there is NJ
doubt if all were Sabbath keepers
that there could not possibly have
been any idolater or atheist in thu
world. The Sabbath as a memorial
of the works of the Creator during
the first week of time, is now seer
in its dignity and Importance, ant
) not held as matter of very Sigh
significance, as our friend esteem
it.
We sincerely deprecate BEN!
called upon as Seven-day Sabbat
aran to defend the memorial of TIN
living God, and we do so not in :
spirit of contention, but in the hop
of directing the mind of our editor
ial parson from the fearful delusiol
and snare in which his feeling
. against an unoffending and trul,
sincere religious people have Lee
him.
Having demonstrated from Bibl
testimony that the Seventh day Sab
bath of the first week of time is tho
same Seventh day commemoratcd a
. a rest day of the Lord on two table,
of stone in the Interchangeable law o
God we hone our hrothor Ehris