The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-07-20

Mn. EDITOR OF REPUBLICAN; With
respect to Mr.. S. j. HeIsum's stunning
questions In the REPUBLICAN OF Tues
day 1t may be said that going back.
ward Is not profitable to the world
when all desirable things are attained
by going forward. go forward" is
tho command from headquarters.
Secondly. Time Ii not measured by
the action Of those who either stand
still or go backward. II any are so
foolish as to do either while time ia
ticking off the hours and days by the
steady advance OF the earth and other
tlme-markers, they simply waste the
time which they spend In that way.
while those who do not concur with
them keep up with the-splendid march
OF progress that Is carrying all good
enterprises forward to their consum
nation.
The poor fool who should attempt
TO spend his time running or flying
westward rs fast as the earth fnoyes
eastward, even II he could do SO.
would not be able to subtract the
amount of time so spent from the
sum total Of his days. The Hight Of
time In days and years Is not arrested
by his folly. He would be a day old
er with every revolution OF The earth
upon Its axis, whether he stood still
or ran backward. Boys and girls
know that II man on II boat should
run aft as fast as the boat runs for
ward, tine boat and its cargo. OF which
he is part, have not been stayed at
the same place by his endeavor to
maintain for few moments hit
proximity to some object OH Tit
shore.
And so thirdly. 1t Ia more than un
profitable for any one, In serloul
way, to strive to return his tellov
men to the servitude Of the Jewisl
typos and ritual which were fulfilled
and superseded and abolished as ordi
nances, nailed to the cross, by Hin
who in HIS life, death, resurrection
and ascension has given us substance
for shadows and brought life and I'm
mortality to light. Labor Is bestow
ed in vain" upon those who "observ
days and months and times and years
OGaliv, TO- )under the yoke OF cere
monial bondage. Pentecost itself
which made the old eighth, (our first
day memorable for all time as tn
birthday OF the new spirltua
dlspensaiion passes for moth
ing in Its Significance to those who's
devotlons are distui bed by their bond
age to days..
six days shalt thou labor, but In tn
seventh thou shalt not do any work.
is obeyed both In letter and in spirl
by those who begin their count o
Monday as fully as by those VIII
choose to make Saturday the sevont
day and call IL Sabbath.
Pentecost was counted eighth unde
the old dlspensatioD, anu with II
significant symbolism OF the ne'
harvest 1t will remain IN everlasting
remembrance in the world, q blesse
reminder Of the resurrection, whio
broke the bars of death for the worlt
and Of the spiritual baptism whic
consecrated the natal day OF the Chris
tian dlspensation. .--
l add one more thought to say tina
It is not true historically that Cor
stantine first fixed the laws for the oil
servance OF the first day OF the wee
as the Christian Sabbath. No INTEL
gent reader Ct scripture will say 30
lie does not wrest Lev. NNllI, Is. 81
80; Luke XXIV, SO, 3S. 80. Jno. XN
I 10, go. and Acts ii and Xxx, 4 froI
their true import.
Constantlne's civil law was but
tardy recognition of statute while
had been for centuries already a la
to the people of God. Multorum UnuI
Wilmington 10, '93.