The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-16

time 10 speak. II almost seemed a.
If dead silence were there the rule OF
life.
And in face of worldwide facts nike
. these there are men who write about
IN. workingmau's desire TO see the
wheels Of this big world move round
seven DAYS in seven. and pose a. his
champion in every effort made 70 break
his Sabhath's rest.
Secund-We do not hesitate 10 &C
know ledge and hasten to add that
We are glad Of it-that In this con-
fict ecclesiastical tradition has failed
To make ont a case We have not got
q Sabbath because We have the Ten
Commandments This commandment
is merely the first crude translation ON
stone Of the great law that had existed
from the etern, ties. Our Sunday does
not rest on the commandment letter of
the Jewish ritual. IL So. we celebrate
the wrong day and utterly fail To fulfill
the letter of the law The Sabbath of
the Mosaic ritual is our Saturday. No
man who knows anything about the
subject has ever disputed ii. We do
not keep the Sabbath day because we
are commanded i'll so many words 10
keep a specific day.
WHY WE KEEP THE SABBATH.
We keep the Sabbath day because il
is our privilege God given and
Christ given one-of resting one day
in seven. The Sabbath was made for
man, said Jesus. Ii was God s gift
of love 10 his tired children. The Sab
batarian zealot who would restore the
Journalism of a pharisee's Sabbath is
the enemy of Jesus Christ for he is the
| follower of them who slew him.
Nor is the man who would restore
the gloom and the absurlity of the
early Puritanic Sabbath in this day any
less the enemy of true Christianity.
The life of our stern ancestors, while ii
had elements of heroic strength, had
about its religion narrowness, big
| otry and a meaness that il were better to
forget than seek to perpetuate. Listen:
In book in which Jonathan Truln bull
recorded the minor cases he tried as
justice of the peace is this entry His
Majesties Tithing man entered com
plant against iona. and Susan Smith,
that on the Lords day, during divine
service, they did smile They were
found guilty, and each was fined 8 shil-
lings and costs. But it was the small
boy whose behavior in the meeting
house provoked the Puritan elders to
groan in chorus, "Foolishness is bound
in the heart of child"
The boy behaved badly because he
was seated with other boys, instead of |
with his father and mother in family |
pew. They We're herded together on
the pulpit and gallery stairs. and tith-
lngmen and constables were appointed
to watch over them and see that they
behave themselves comelie and use
such raps and blows as meet"
In one parish it was ordered in town
meeting that there be some sticks set
up in various places in the meeting
house and tit persons by them and to
use Them"
1t is this spirit carried into the inter
probation of Scripture that has done so
much hurt to the cause of Christ, as it
has fingered as strange discord in the
light and harmonies of modern life.
From Waterville college in 1888
graduated young man whose mother
had designed him for the ministry.
But he refused to enter it. One of the
professors in Waterville, Oh a certain
occasion, delivered a sermon in the
chapel, in which he claimed that none
but the elect could be saved: that of
processing Christians not more than one ;
In hundred could reach heaven. and
that heather people would have more
consideration of the Almighty in the
IuCure life than men of Christian ma
lions who hear but do not profit by the
word of God. The rules of the collepe
made attendance upon religious serv
Ices In the chapel compulsory. After
this Sermon the young man petitioned
to be excused from further attendance
on these services, giving as a reason
That, according to the proportion stated
not above six persons in the college
could be saved, and as there were nine
worthy professors, all of whom were
1octors OF divinity, it would be pre-
sumption for him to hope for salvation.
and therefore in attending church he
was only making damnation the mora
'ure and terrible. Q
Inc name Of that young man was 0
Benjamin F. Butler.
Form and ritual and tradition and
CEREMONY may be one thing and Chris.
ianlty another, as the following advef- C
lsement taken from IA recent number
! the st. James Gazette shows:
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sie IN the suburbs of London. Sale urgent.
respect of early possession, TCould n he ma
1OTe Qeucately?l Net |
,ork. 7 ne best society. Practically no Door
'sut1ui modern church. Apply to =.
Inc party which appeals to form
no commandment and tradition has :"
1ade sorry showing in this mortal G.,
ombat for the truth. But the truth is ~
, divine thing even its professed '"
flends can not Stay it. sc
INFIDELIrT Baked. d.
Thlrd-The fact begins to shine with
lcreas1ng brilliancy that from a Sab. 81
ath founded on primal ordinance Of
infdelity can subtract moth al
lg. re
Inc Christian world without author lo
OF ritual or statute moved bv tho w.,
s1stiess impulse of the free love to- w
ara Jesus Christ, changed the Sabbath re
ON Saturday 70 Sunday and made il it
% Lord s day-the day Of his risen III sa
-taelr DAY OF joy and hope and peace
soul after the storm. This was the
ginning of the reigc of the spirit. 'e
ae letter had done Its work. The Ina
w era OF freedom and love and grace vc
d come. N g. "oo
me Sabbath is an ordinance Of law
we aivine law OF nature. The reie,11
law Is the reign of God. Therefore
all we remember the Sabbath dav IT.,
10 revelation Of nature is the last T.
'fs from God. You can not mnffla !.
sabbath bells Of the world, because ii
! ne master musicians of the world