The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-09-25
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haps not too much SOY, being 'slle
himself. Those living IN glass;
houses should be very careful now
thew throw stones that they might
not reflect back to their own, II so,
then, ''they be blind leaders OF lne
blind. And if the blind lead the
blind, both shall fall into the ditch
Matt. 15:l4. He allows it is not
water that saves them but the obey
inc of the commandments. The
fourth commandment says, Ike
member" Cor don't forget). 600
knew that many who would be stick
lers for certain things in the Bible.
although they might be right, would
not look to the weightier matters.
Christ says: "Wo unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! for We
pay 1.-THE of mint and anise and cum
min. and have omitted the weightler
matters of the law, judgment, mercy
and faith; these ought We to have
done, ard not to leave the other un-
done" Matt. 1929. "And why
beholdest thou the mote that is in
thy brothers. eye, but conslderest
not the beam that is in thine own
eye?' [ will allow that sp-inkling
was brought into practice through
the Roman Catholic Church. Was
not Sunday keeping brought TO light
through the same source! Let us
see.
Coleman says: "Down even to the
fifth century the observance of the
Jewish Sabbath was continued in the
Christian Church, but with rigor and
solemnity gradually diminishing, un-
til it was wholly discontinued. -
Ancient CHRIS. Exem., Chap, 26,
sec. 2.
Edward Brerewood, professor in
Gresham College, London, says: ut
is commonly believed that the jew
ish Sabbath was changed into the
Lords Day by Christian Emperors,
and they know little who do not
know that the ancient Sabbath did
remain and was observed by the
Eastern churches three hundred
wears after our Saviour's passion. y
Treatise on the Sabbath, p n.
Sir William Domville says: "Cen'
turtles of the Christian era passed
away before Sunday was observed
by the Christian Church as Sab
bath. History does not furnish us
with a single proof or indication thai
it was at any time so observed pre-
vious to the Sabbatical edict of Con
stantine in A. d, 32l." EXamina
ton of the Six Texts, p. 29l.
OF Constantine's decree, Milman
the learned editor of Gibbon, says
"The rescript, commanding the cele
hration of the Christian Sabbath
bears no allusion to its peculiar
sanctity as a Christian institution
Ii is the day of the sun which is tt
be observed by the general venera
ton" History of Christianity
Book 3, Chap. |.
n. Summerbel, a noted ministe
and author in the Christian Church
and once President Of Antioch co.
College, says in his History OF tn
Christians p. AS: cit 9Th
Roman church, has reversed til
fourth commandment, doing ava.
with the Sabbath of God S word, AM
instituting Sunday as holy day
Prynne says: "The seventh-da
Sabbath was solemnize
by Christ, the apostles, and plimitiv
Christians, till the LaodIcean Couu
Gil did, in a manner, quite abolls
the observation of il. lh
Council of Laodicea { A. d. S64
first settled the observatio
of the Lords day. dissertation c
the Lords day 1888, p. 1853.
John Culinary Shea, LII. d.,
represent alive man among Catholic;
and an accomplished writer, thu
states the point; The Sunday, q
day of the week set apart Tor til
obligatory public worshipo Almigh'
God, to be sanctitied by suspensio
of all servile labor, trade, and worlt
Iy avocations and by exercises {
devotion, is purely creation of th
Catholic Church" "Nothing in I'll
New Testament forbids work, trave
trade, amusement, on the first day
the week. There is nothing whic
implies such prohibition. The daN
as one specially set apart, had Il
, authority but that OF the Cathol
Church, the laws requiring its obse
vance were passed TO enforce decree
q of councils of the Catholic Church.
For ages, all Christian natior
looked to the Catholic Church, ant
as we have seen. the various STATE
enforced by law have ordinances ;
to worship and cessation of labor c
Sunday. Professionalism, in discard
ing the authority of the chdrch, h;
no good reason for its Sunday theor,
and ought, logically, to keep Satu
= day as the Sabbath with the Jew
and Seventb-day Baptists. For the
present practice, Protestants in gel
eral have no authority but that Of
church which they disown." III
American Catholic Quarterly Revie'
Jan 1888. (The Outlook, Apr
1889
James Blake, NJ. D., anoth
Roman Catholic, in a debate with
Protestant, drove the latter to I'll
Will with the following unanSWerah