Hawaii holomua = Progress., 1894-06-16

| WHICH one Cal nOE De taken with
out detriment of the mkole.
| | hope thai | have now made
1t clear that We should not have
have had weeks except for the
Institution of the Sabbath. II
will then be seen that the obsery.
ance of the Sabbath does not
arise out of ary inherent sanctity
attached to one particular day OF
the week. but that the sense oi
obligation written on the human
heart that every Seventh day
should be a day of sacred rest is
the origin of weeks. That sense
was intimately bound up with the
knowledge divinely revealed that
God made the earth on which
man Was placed in SIX days, and
had rested on the Seventh. For
twenty-five centuries there was
no aCrittea loord to tell him this.
1t was part of the innate sense of
Divine things he brought sith
him into the world. IL we cannot
agree with our poet Wordsworth
N his beautiful ode on Intiina-
tions of Immortality. that
The Soul that rises with us. our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting
We can fully concur in hls
conclusion
"Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, Who is our home:
"The youth, who daily further from the east
Must travel. still is Natures Priest,
And by the vision splendid
Is on MS way attended;
At length the Man prece;ves it die away
And fade into the light of common day
Has not this been the history
of mankind. As be travelled
further and further from Para
disc. the original writing on his
heart became more and more in
distinct, till ne was unable to
decipher it, and it was necessary
for the written Law of Sinai to
save him from forgetfuIness of
the original Law of conscience.
1t was the result of the heavenly
light that shone in Paradise that
a seventh day rest was observed
in patriarchal times as Divinely
MEMORIAL OF CREATION,
a perpetual remainder that in six
days, God had made heaven and
earth. and had rested on the
Aud when the Ten
Commandments were finally
given from Mount Sinai. there
was incorporated with the com
mand to keep the Sabbath the
ground of its Institution, so in
is the obligation of the
from the Memorial of
Creation; For, in six days the
LORD made heaven and earth, the
sea and all that in them is, end
rested the Seventh day: wherefore
the LORD blessed the Sabbath day. |
and hallowed it, Exodus XX,
IL. You viii notice that in
the Fourth Commandment as
written in the Twentieth Chapter
Of Exodus, it is the Sabbath day,
not any particular day of the
week that the Lord blessed. All
through the patriarchal times it is
highly probable that the Sabbath
had been kept on the first day
Of the week: For. when human
history is traced to its fountain
head. we find its starting point to |
have been at the close of the |
Sixth day of creation, so that |
the first rising sun that ever
greeted human eyes was on the
morning of tie day which God |
blessed and sanctiied, because
in it God rested from all His !
work which God crested and !
made" But. whether the |
Sabbath was the first day. or the !
he Seventh day of the week. In |
prediluyiau aud. in patriarchal !
lines. it was the abiding witness |
20 q belief in God, Who, in the |
beginning created heaven and
earth. and memorial that in six +!
lays the work # creation was com /
,leted. and that on the Seventh |
God rested rom the work Of
,reation.
III. But with tbe beginning Of |
he national life Of the Jewish |
people. as the chosen people d /
God. whom He had brought out