The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-11
Reply to EId. j. 3. Daisley.

been arralgned Dy Elu. DalSley OH
a charge of falsehood, will with
your permission clear myself
read a statement from Alexander
Campbell In Popular Lectures"
on the subject of the Sabbath. It
was rather damaging to opposi-
tion, hence this squirming. | will
here give the quotation that / read:
"Heaven left not this fact the basis
of thousand volumes to be gath
cred from abstract reasonings, init
lated traditions, ingenious analo-
gies, plausible conjectures but from
monumental institution
which was as universal as the an
mails Of time, as the birth of ma
tions and as the languages spoken
by mortals. An institution too,
which notwithstanding its demand,
not only of theSeventh part Of all
time, but ofa%he seventh day in
uninterrupted Succession. was cele-
brated from the creation to the
sdeluge, during the deluge and after
the deluge till the giving Of the
law = =
The humblest pillar in hon.
or Of the dead has in memory of
inscribed, either in fact or by cir
cumstances upon its front; and SO
reads the fourth principle of the
everlasting ten, remember that in
| six days God created the heavens
and earth, the sea and all that in
them is, and rested on the seventh
day; wherefore remember the sew
enth day, to sanctify and hallow
it,"-Popular Lectures PIP 23S, 2S4.
While [ do not deny that A. G.
afterwards rejected this and be-
came an Antinomian Gas are his
followers today that does not
mitigate against the truth which
he once held.
Saul, king of Israel was once q
man whom God accepted, but final
ly became a reprobate. So Judas
/
Iscariot was at one time follower
of Jesus Christ, but finally turned
traitor. This does not prove that
they were not right at one time.
1t on is similar principle that VIC
quote A. G. He once believed anc
accepted the ten commandments
the great moral law Of God as the
"everlasting ten," but afterward
rstrograded to the extent of reject
ing them, according to Mr.. d.
y quotation. Whatever he may
have written afterwards does nc
undo or render untrue that whic,
he wrote before.
Therefore | utterly deny th.
charge and leave the honest ur
baised reader to judge. Mr.. =
then states that II know we are no
under the law" True we are MT
under the condemnation of the law.
if we are obeying and are in Chri
but whenever we break one con-
mandment, we are under the (coI
demnation of law, because in sin
hence the law will always exist an
so Christ says. ''It is easier fo
heaven and earth to pass than on
: little a part Of q letter. of the lay
: to faip' Luke. 16: II, Paul says
81 had not known sin except th
law had said "Thou shalt no
covet" "Wherefore the law is hol,
g and the commandment holy, an
r Just and good" Rom. Z 7. IL,
: John says: "H1 that said
: know him and keepeth not his con
d mardments, is q liar and the trut
a is not in him." / Jno. 2: d.
n So, as q Christian in deed an
r, in truth obey the commands of m
e Lord as found in Ex. 20: LII, |
d those Everlasting ten' whic
n Christ came not ''to destroy but t
d fulflln or obey, and which he say
y shall stand "till heaven and cart
g pass" Consequently if | call my
g self Christian and yet do nC
e keep all the commandments--tf I'll
g seventh day too, as the Sabbath {
d the Lord; the Lords day brin
i upon myself John
+ condemnation, and "
t know the Word says "all lial
L shall have their part in the lal'
which burneth with fire and brin
stone" /" Christ could as truly 50
to many Of his professed followel
1t today as to the Jews Of old "Hov
te belt in vain ye do worship m
te teaching for doctrines the con
le mandments of men," "And |
" said unto them full we'll ye reje
ir the commandments Of God that .
as may keep your own traditions.
8, Yours for truth and justice.
IS, d. E. ScoLEs.