Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-05-02

mcnt where the special observance
of any special day is alluded to.
There was a discussion between
the Jewish converts to Christian
ity. and those who had been con-
vertcd from among the heather,
on the subject of Keeping up the
of the Sabbath. The
Jews had been accustomed to
keeping a Sabbath and the heather
had not, and the Christian con-
verts from two divisions locked
horns on the question, and Paul
decides in favor of the heather
converts; though it is a fact that
his disposition to be call things to
all men" destr Dyed some of his
literary perspicuity in this in
stance.
Not only did the Jews kill
Jesus partly because he would
not observe the Sabbath, but it is a
fact that when a young man came
to Jesus and asked him, "What
good thing must ] do that may
inherit eternal life?' Jesus, in
quoting the decaglogue to him,
takes pains to omit The command
ment about the Sabbath: nor did
he ever in any recorded instance
teach any man that he ought to
keep the Sabbath, or any first day
of the week, or any other day as a
substitute for the Sabbath.
Again it is true, that in all the
epistolary writings of all the apos.
ties of Jesus there is not a single
injunction of any one of them tC
observe the Sabbath nor a rebukt
of anybody for violating the Sab
bath, though it is claimed for the
New Testament that it "thor-
oughly furnishes unto every goot
! work." all believers in the Chris
tian religion.
The Christian church, of which
1 am an ex-member, recognize
the truth of all I say, and realize
that Christians have no NOR
right to get the Sabbath law on
of the Jewish Bible, than the,
have to get a law for butcherin,
lambs and oxen to propitiate God
or any other Jewish trumpery
but the Christian church, just lik
the others, is afraid to say wha
it believes on this point, because
would not be polite. TO spend
whole day in idleness, and eatin
big dinners, and gossip, is piec
of religion that is so eminentl
congenial to the public taste tina
it takes man OF some nerve t
tackle it.
AS matter offact there is MOI
drunkenness and crime on Sunda
than on any other two or tire
days of the week, and the Prohi
bition party, ming to Perpet,u
10 sH e is fura;s b
ing a club to break its own head.
But all this is only half. If
were as plainly specified in tn
New Testament, as anything coul
be, that all men should abstai
from labor on the first day of tn
week, or on any day of the week
that would be no reason for en-
forcing it by law, because tn
Christian religion is neither tn
constitution or the law of thi
country
Neither Jesus nor his religio
have ever been recognized by tn
constitution of this country a
having any more authority her
than Mohammed, and even to &c
the Constitution of the Unite
States to recognize the existenc
ola God has proven an abortion
The nearest they ever came to i
was when they got Sumner to pu
ain God we trust" on the Ameri
can dollar. That they lied wheI
they put it on there is eviden
from the fact that if YOU counter
felt one of these dollars, the,
won't trust God worth cent t
punish you, but they will put yo'
in the penitcntiary without saying
a word to God about it. And We
that hypocritical coin that is use'
to abet this scheme to force religion
on the people, while it Processes t.
be a dollar, is really only IS cents
while the gold dollar that is wha
it really processes to be does no
have the Puritanic motto on il
That which is honest and rfgh
does not require any endorsement
from God or man; but from tim,
immemmorial it base been one O
the plans of men to implicate Coz
in every villianOus scheme tina
they have undertaken.
If the Jews should get poses
sion of the city of Lexington lik'
the Irish Catholics now have, ant