The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-03-30


filled and enlarged the true idea of th'
Sabbath. we have here the final moral
ity, the final word from God TO us upoI
this subject.
TEE FHARIsEE's SABBATH.
Jesus. while he approved the funda
mental idea Of the Sabbath, distinctly
repudiated the pharisaical conception OF
it. He said: Did not David take the
shew bread because he had need, Can
not l pluck the ears Of corn; cannot J
heal on the Sabbath day? Was not the
day made for man? Why quibble ovei
the little traditions when You have failed
in the greater matters Of the lawg' The
pharisee's Sabbath was an uncomfortable
sabbath. They had everything regulated
They discussed tremendous question:
like this. Could a man walk on stills on
the Sabbath day. The general accepta'
ton was he could not because he would
be bearing burden. They had regu-
lation that said a man could not wear
false teeth on the Sabbath because he
would be bearing a burden; that he
could not feed chickens on the Sabbath
because 1t might be sowing seed-a har.
vest might be the result.
Another regulation said that a man
could not pluck a bunch Of grapes be.
cause it was a kind Of harvest, or cat an
egg laid on the Sabbath because the hen
violated the sabbath by laying on that
day. They had another regulation that
You could not kill a flea on Sunday be.
cause it would be hunting. When Jesus
broke the Sabbath, he broke that sort Of
a Sabbath. He set aside that sort Of a
Sabbath and came down to the great
fundamental principle which God had
ordained in that law Of rest when he gave
it to Moses.
would not want TO perpetuate the
pharisaical Sabbath or the Sabbath Of
the pilgrim or the Puritan fathers. We
do not need any Of then. but we do need
the Sabbath Of Jesus. What was that
Sabbath? Distinctly Jesus declares that
that day was pre-eminently mans day.
He does not emphasize the letter. but the
spirit The Sabbath was made for man.
You understand the Sabbath means the
seventh day. Any man who studies
Scripture and history must be unfaithful
to the most superficial observance that
does not know that our Saturday is the
| Sabbath referred to in the days of the
Jewish ordinance. How, then, dove oh,
serve Sunday? We observe it because Of
the overwhelming importance Of the
resurrection of the Lord. Our day is
the Lords day, when the old calendar
was blotted out Of the Christian world,
and when every line Of human history
was redrawn and took its center at the
cross.
The fourth commandment does not say,
Observe Saturday" 1t says, Keep the
Scucnth day" And whether you begin
numbering one day or another, You keep
the commandment when you keep the
seventh day. If a man is obliged to work
and there are thousands who must
work on that day-if that be the case,
then man must observe the seventh day.
1t does not matter what day it is. Wedo
not observe Sunday becauseit is the jew
iGh Sabbath. We observe this Lords day
because it is the seventh day, and God
said, Work six days and rest one" And
this day has in the heart of the Christian
world absorbed all other days, because il
is the day of the Lord. And Jesus said
distinctly, This day is made for man."
THE LABoRING MANS SABBATH.
It embodies the old conception of rest
from labor. say to the workingman,
be ne skeptic, atheist or infdel, when
ever you surrender your Sabbath's rest,
cur one days rest in seven, you have
bound the chains Of slavery round your
own foolish necks, and you have bound
your own hands and delivered yourself
10 your enemy. for whenever man can
do it he will grind every ounce of man.
hood out OF your miserable body. The
day you allow that day to be taken from
You, that day you have surrendered your
birthright, what God Almighty gave you
when you We're born into this world, and
You have sold it for a mess Of pOttage.
God ordained in nature when he made
this world that man should rest one day
in seven. ItwaS an old Jewish ordinance,
but it was made for all time The Jew
IS a man. He is made rs You are; he
has nerves and a body; he must live. AS
a nation he had the highest hygieniC
regulations long before Your ancestors
and mine were born, and no Eace of men
can ever reach the highest things with
ont observing those fundamental princi.
Piles. In so far as those regulations have
been broken down greedy corporations
have taken advantage of it. These men
that have power will 90 TO church or
do what they please, but these miserable
wretches must get into harness and work
every day in the week. Let every man
see TO it that he finds that day is pre-
served as a day sacred to the race.
If 1t Is a day for man, it should COM
memorate a new AMI divine life The
risen Lord! like the Lords Cay. 1t sig
nifes a new hfe-risen 10 new things. 50
should man on this day rise TO new things
Whatever uplifts man is legitimate on
this day. But You want TO understand
what man is. The Sabbath was made
for man-not for a brute. If You say,
Il want to do what please on Sundays;
want to go to a swilltub and eat beer
slops," that is one thing. If you want
TO set that which is good for man, that
is another thing.
If you say, Il want my beer ON Sun
day, my saloon open on Sunday; the
Sabbath was made for man; am man"
u know you ought TO be, but you are
not. in so far as Won have submitted to
appetite as contradistinguiShed from the
higher elements of man. The Sabbath
was made for man-not the hog in man;
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