The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-02

/ d never was changed. nor could it h..
J unless creation was 20 be gone through
/ again, for the reason assigned must Doe
/ changed before the observance or respect
/ % the reason can be chaured. IL IS an
/ old wives fables 90 talk OF the change on
/ the Jewish sabbath from the seventh 10
/ the first day II IL be changed, 10 was
/ that august parsonage changed II who
/ changes times and laws eX-Oiticio. Is ms
! name Anti-Christi
! But was not the Sabbath given TO the
/ Jews only And again, was il not a
! shadow or typel This deserves atten-
! ton The preface to the law of which IL
/ was part saws: 81 am the Lord, your
| God who brought you out Of the land OF
! Egypt out Of the house of bondage
! therefore remember the Sabbath day"
| etc The preface TO this law, as the in
/ scriptiOn or address upon a letter ascer-
/ tains whose property II was. 1t was
/ the property Of the Jews. But Moses
/ tells them this, not leaving 1t 10 an in
| ference-Deut v, 15 Remember that
| YOU were a servant in the land of Egypt,
| and the Lord, your God, brought you
| out thence, through a mighty hand and
| by stretched out arm; therefore the
/ Lord your God, Commandeth YOU TO keep
| the Sabbath day" Ezekiel says
the same, or rather the Lord
by the prophet says, chapter xxi
.
my Sabbath, to be a sign between me and
them"
Yes, said the Lord, by Moses, "The
Sabbath is a sign between me and the
| Children of Israel forever Elk. xxx, H.
IL is worthy of note here that of all the
sins in the long, black catalogue Of sins,
specified against the Gentiles, in all the
New Testament the sin of Sabbath
breaking is never once preferred against
E.4v hn t1n SUh h
bath day was as exclusively the prop
erty of the Jews as was circumcis-
ion.
But was it not a shadow and type?
Let us hear Paul. Let no man Judge
you condemn YOU for not observing in
meats and drinks, flor eating and drink
ing) or in respect of holy day, or OF a
new moon, or of the Sabbath, which are
a shadow of things to come: but the
body is of Christ or according to Mac
Knight, the body is Christs body"
Paul. then, says it was shadow. In the
EpiStle to the Hebrews, chapter iv, he
makes it and Canaan TYPES of that rest
which remained for the people of God.
The Sabbath then was a shadow type
given to the Jews only.
Since beginning this article we noticed
for the first time, very correct note of
Dr. MacKnights the celebrated translator
our view of this matter. With many |
know, his views will bereceived with more
Oeadiness of mind than mine. He express
SEES himself in the following manner on
COlossians ii, 16: "T'he whole of the law
of Moses being abrogated by Christ
Coil. ii, l4), Christians are under no OBJ
legation to observe any Of the Jewish
holy days, not even the seventh day Sab
bath, Wherefore if any teacher made
tho obcnr.tTa AGO pf tho epyrpufb dov q noe
cssary duty, the ColOssians we're to re-
sist him. But though the brethren in the
first age paid no regard to the Jewish
seventh day Sabbath, they set
apart the first day of the week for pub
lie worship and for commemOrating the
death and resurrection of their Master,
by eating his supper on that day; also for
private exercises of devotion. This they
did either by the precept or by the eX-
ample Of the apostles, and not by virtue
of any injunction in the law of Moses. Be
sides, they did not sanctify the first day
Of the week in the Jewish manner, by a
total abstinence from bodily labor of every
kind. That practice was condemned by
the council of Laodicea as Judaizing''-
Lee Luieeri Thes Ecc'l sooce sabbaton.
DR.. MacKnight was dignitary in the
Presbyterian church and translator and
commentator of deserved recognition.
The sabbath was by the Lord of the
Sabbath. set aside, as well as every part
of the law of Moses. The learned Mac
Knight in with us also, in this instance.
His words on Col. K, iv. 1t is evident, -
says he, that the law of Moses, in all its
parts, is now abolished and taken away.
Consequently, that Christians are under
no obligation to obey even the moral pre-
cepts of that law, on account of their be-
ing delivered by Moses to the Jews For
if the moral obligations of the moral pre-
cepts of his law are still
continued, mankind is still pnder
its curse" / would observe just on this
item, that the Lord Jesus Christ observed
the last Sabbath that was obligatory on
any of the hnman race, by lying in the
grave from evening to evening. In the
silence of death and the grave he cele-
brates it literally, mot going out of his
place. until the Sabbath was past.
Then very early in the morning, when the
Sabbath was past, the Jewish religion
being cOnsummated, he rises and becomes
the beginning of the new creation.
Christians by apostolic example, which
to them is the same as precept, are, in
honor of the commencement of the new
creation, constrained by Christs author
ity and grace to meet on the first
day of the week, to show forth his death
and to commemorate his resurrection
structed and to admonish one another
they are TO learn his statutes, ana "to
continue steadfastly in the apostles doc
trine, in breaking bread, in fellowship,
| and in prayers, praising God" Such was
the practice of the primitive church, as
the epistles demonstrate. The first day
of the week is not regarded to the Lord
when these things are not done. For if
| professors of Christianity are to keep in
their houses from morning to evening and
celebrate this day as the Jews did the
/ Sabbath instead of hOnoriug, they are dis
honoring Christ, No two days are more
unlike in their import and design
than the Sabbath and the first day. The
former commentaries the contamination
of the old creation, the cessation of crea-
/ ton work, the latter commentaries the
/ beginning of the new creation. The
/ former was to Israel memorial that they
/ were once slaves in Egypt-the latter as
! sures us that the year of release has
! come. The former looked back with
mOurnful aspect to the tolls and sorrows
( entailed upon the human body. From an
/ evil incident to the old creations the lat
| ter looks forward with an eye beaming
| with hope, to perpetual exemption from
toll and pain and sorrow.
The Sabbath was day of awful self
denial and profound religious gloom-the
/ resurrection day is a day Of triumph, OF
/ holy Joy and genuine religious festivity
/ The Jew, on a Sabbath morn, from his
/ easement surveyed the smOkelcss chin
Il 4.