Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-06-08


Let me give you au sllustr,sion
which will. | think. make It
clear that the sanctifrasion OF the
Seventh day Is not the sancsifca-
ton of any one day in the week.
as Saturday or Sunday, but the
hallowing of whatever day should
become the Seventh day of rrss.
There are ssyen notes IN N use,
which are uamed from A. to G.
In learning music everyone learns
first the key of c. In that KEY
b. Is the seventh note. And a
child's first idea of the scale is,
that C. is the first note and B.
the seventh But then after a
time it is learnt that there are
as many keys as there are Lotes.
That the sequence Is always the
same. That there is an un-
changing law attached to the
seventh note; and according to
the key IN which you play or
sing. the seventh note must be
made comfortable to that law
aud be semitone below the
octave. ii is not the " of 3 or
f. But the law Of the sereatk
note 1t is just so with the
Seventh day. The Fourth Com
mandment is not the law of Sat
urday or the law OF Sunday but
the law OF the Seventh day. And
as in music, b. is the seventh
note In the key of c.. but f. In
the key of g. So whilst in the Jew
ISL dispensation the Seventh day
rest fell on Saturday. under
the Gospel it falls on Sunday,
while in the early ages of the
world we cannot say with GER
tainty on which day it fell though
it is most probable as [ will show
you presently that previous to the
Jewish dispensation the Sabbath
was kept on the firstday of the week
To maintain, then, that the Sew
enth day cannot be any other day
than Saturday was childish, as to
y that the seventh note in the
scale in b, and can t be any other.
Next, let us trace the Jewish
Sabbath To its connection with |
Saturday. If you have never ex
amined the question you may
have thought that it has had a
continued h story from the time
of Adam. That is not the case |
1t Is absolutely impossible to
trace the Jewish Sabbath back |
beyond the giving OF the manna
a mouth after the Exodus. So |
rh:gt out of the 4 900 years bet-
ween Adam and Christ. the con- |
nections of the Sabbath with |
Saturday had only had a history |
OF 500 years. There is evidence |
that the Sabbath had been OBJ |
served during patriarchal times
But during the two centuries and |
a half of slavery in Egypt. if the
memory of it was retained. it's
had been blotted out.
1t is not likely that the Egyptian
task masters would have allowed
their slaves weekly holiday.
which they did not keep them
selves. Consequently when they
came out Of Egspt, the Sabbath
bad to be newly proclaimed. and
y new calendar provided. With
the Exodus change was made
in the beginning of the year
Nissan being made the first month
Of the year, aud shortly after, the /
giving of the mamma settled the
arrangement of the week until the
Christian era.
The aceounto Of the APP ointment
IF the Jewish Sabbath is very
Iull and explicit. and yon will see
hat it was the mamma that de-
which day would be the
and not the Sabbath
he days on which the mamma
sould fall.
1t was on the 18th day Of I 8
d week after the Exodus. that
he children of Israel entered the
silderness Of Sin. By this time
he food supply they had bronght
rom Egypt was exhausted. Man
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