The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-07-28
bondage 70 Obsolete Ordinances
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bondage to Obsolete Ordinances.
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'iMuitorum Unusn regrets that S. ].
Recommendations this be mascu line
or feminine Names should have con-
strued the general remark about on
Intelligent reader OF Scripture" In the
notes OF July Goth as a personal reilec-
ton. 1t was not SO intended. As to
the answer to the particular question,
Where In his journey docs he change
from Monday to Tuesdayr' 1t seemed
TO m. u to be sufficiently explicit to
say that time is not measured by the
action OF those who either stand still
or go back ward No mans action or
movement produces the changes OF
the seasons or days, but 1t requires no
great skill 10 sec that when Monday
would change to Tuesday. according
to the proposition. the traveller would
be half way around the earth, measur-
ing from the starting point wherever
thut might be.
Is 1t necessary to state that the
hypothetical traveller would change.
or be changed, from Monday to Tues
day, exactly when the multitude OF
his ow-beings who did not GO
backward, experienced that change?
Where" the supposed backward NOV
ing traveller would be, must depend
upon the point OF starting westward
And noV q word about "Pentecost."
AS we did not suppose we were writ
ing on the goth Inst, for q primary
arithmetic class, we did not think 1t
necessary TO write out the preceding
detaile, nor to say that fifty days"
from one event in the calendar might
also be eight days from another one.
| II It is In round numbers fifty miles
from Wilmington TO Dover, it is no
offence to good arithmetic to say or
think that Dover is eight miles from a
place forty-two miles from Whining.
ton on the same road, In the direction
OF Dover, and Gas We are writing for
the primary CLASSY between Whining.
| ton and Dover, Delaware.
Let us here look at the law for Pente
| cost which We find in Leviticus XXIlI,
10, 16. etc. 'Ie shall count" Cthere is
nothing In Num-, xxi. 81 to which S.
j. II. refers u.s. SO like legal phrase
as that "unto.you as the morrow aftel
the Sabbath from the day that W
brought the sheaf of the wave offering
seven Sabhaths shall be complete
Even unto the morrow after the sew
enth Sabbath shall ye number fifty
days; and ye shall offer new meat
offering unto the Lord. At the end oil
the verses following which give details
in v. 81 we find, "lhis shall be q sta
tute' forever in all your dwellings
throughout your generations v. 81
Clubbing over these words is surely
.'wreeting" them. One difficulty witt
s. j. Ii. seems to be that he is unable
to distinguish between universal sta
tutes of the Decalouge and the terms
suited to universal law, and the de
| tatIal rannIramapta ~ If.wtah prdt
nances.
Let us go higher than Webster'i
Dictionary and Chambers Encyclope
dia, vol. o, etc, to the claw" itself
Count seven Sabbaths or weeks com
plete," from April 10. the morrow
after the Sal bath" of the passover
and you will reach June 4, forty-nin,
days, which, added to April Is. maxi
the fifty days after the passover four
teenth. or with June 4, fifty day
after the passover Sabbath.
But 1t was upon the eighth day
Lev. xiii, l0-ll, that the sheaf of frs
fruits was to 10 accepted, and II was
fixed by law" (see Eek. Kill, 30 thai
after the expirat. on OF the days of the
eerem oninl law, the day counted as
'the eighth" under the old dispense
ton, was to be fixed for acceptable
offerings upon the altar OF the Lord
S. j. IL. ought to know that Pentecost
Is not an Old Testament term. Pente
cost represents the Feast OF Weeks.
Seven times seven is forty.nlne. ant
one more makes fifty.
The seventh day Of the seventh weel
would be Saturday. But the eight
day is the iiftieth in this count. strang,
as it may appear to S. j. H., and tina
eighth day, as tho reliable history o
tl oil Fal ahnN tNa hn % n
Pentecost, which Is now represented
by the day commonly called Sunday
: And why not observe II? 1t was tn
! seventh return of the day when Chris
rose from the dead, seven Sabbath
complete" and II He who made tn
month Abb instead iof Tiki. the frs
month OF the new year to His people
made all months and days. why cayi
IL q new dispensation of grace Is or
dained to open on u day which com
memorates the consummatioD of TIN
long struggle for deliverance from al
old and irksome bondage and TIL
suspicious beginning OF q new an
more glorious" dispensation2 Sc
Q Cor. III, IL.
Indeed 1t seems like waste OF labo
and time to canvas a subject whic
hes been SO thoroughly settled to th
satisfaction of the whole Chrlstla
world. One word about the allusio
or reference to BALKAN and his ass an
his company and journey, Mum. M
81. II this be the best law which ca
lie quoted for the erratic journeys {
the Balaams, it must he notiuea5l
how little 1t resembles the statutes i
Lev. XXIlI 10. 16, 81. As we have til
testimony OF tue angel of the Lore
: Mum. XIII, 80, to assure us that til
superior discernment and obedienc
OF the ass was all that saved her ride
we may well conclude that safety frol
the perlls that beset n path OF error
may be oftener due to inferior agen
cies than we are inclined to think.
II any one chooses to go with tn
Princess OF Moab ito CURSE or I
essay Ito curse those whom God ha
not cursed" it might be well for hir
10 be sure that he saddles an ass who
he can see where lie is blind, and whic
will obey when he is obdurate. Tn
Apostle Peter has treated this aspec
of the matter with startling impres
siyenesa In tho second chapter OF hi
second epistle, 2 Pet. ii throughout
Read 1t.
But upon this whole matter OF obso
lete ordinances which perplex unsta
BILE souls with honest yearnings ate
truth, hear the Apostle Paul In Gal. iy
%. As then. he That wac born afte
the fash, prosecuted him that wa
born after the epirit. even SO 1t is now.
Nevertheless, what saith the scriI
ture2 Cast out tho bondwoman an
her son; for tho son Of the bondwc
man shall not DO heir with the son Q
the freewoman. So then, brethren
we are not children of the bondwt
man but OF the free. I'VE prefer tn
larger spiritual liberty OF the new dill
pensation 10 the entaDgling bondag
OF the ceremonial ordinances of III
b old" Let every man he fully pei
| suaded IN his own mind. In conell
sion. repeat what | said In my TO
! mer article about the law OF Constai
tine. 1t was but tardy civil recoi
milton by civil enactment of the al
Gent law OF God. MuLToRuM UNUs.