Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-06-15
THE SABBATH.
n. F. Burgess VS.. Bishop
Willis

rial Of creation. the seventh day
/ (Satursiaslg There is only one
source 70 which the consistant
Protestant can go for a reply
/ and that is, Gods word.
DIR. Dowling has truly said
The Bible, and the Bible
only. is the religion of Protest.
ants Nor is it of any account
in the estimation of the genuine
Protestant, how early a doctrine
originated. if it is not found in
the Bible
Hence if doctrine be pro :
pounded for his acceptance. he
asks, Is it found in the inspired
wordl Was it taught by the
Lord Jesus Christ or His apostles
If they knew nothing of it, no
matter to him whether it be dis
covered in the musty folio of
some ancient visionary of the
third or fourth century, or
whether it springs from the fer
tile brain of some modern vision
arg of the nineteenth. fit is not
found III the Sacred Scriptures,
it presents no valid claim to be
received as an article of religious
creed.
1t is true. as Bishop Willis
says: The cause of dispute over
controverted questions arise be-
cause men are not satitied to
accept the Bible as ii as 'oratten
but read into it, their own inter
probation. Where does the shoe
pinch, when we examine the sub
iect under consideration. Let
the reader decide
/ am lot surprised that Bishop
Willis believes that the Church
has regarded the first day of the
week, as the Lords day. from
the time of the apostles. As it is
The prevailing idea that Christ or
His apostles changed the day.
But we find the Bible is silent on
this point. We find that Christ
Himself kept the seventh day
Sabbath; Luke 4: 16, 81. The
early Christians kept it after the
cruciictiou;. Luke %: Sc. Paul
preached to Jews and Gentiles on
the Sabbath day. Saturday
Acts Is: 4; Is: AZ. We search
10 vain FOR one passage in the
scriptures of truth which sanctions
Sunday as first day of the
week observance.
The greatest obstacle in the way
of the Sunday Institution is the
law of ten commandments. Sun
day cannot be Supported by that
law, the fourth precept Of which
says 'the seventh day is the
Sabbath, and to abolish the
law would be to abolish
the very foundation of the
government of God. Bishop
Willis. Ike many of the leading
Protestant denominations agrees
that the ten-Commandments are
still in force.
The BAPTIST Church Manual,
Art. u, saws: I'VE believe that
the law CT God is the eternal and
uac,dnGt able rule of HIS moral
government
The Methodist Discipline. Art.
6. says: NO Christian whatever
is free from the obedience of the
commandments which are called
moral"
Dwight's Theology. a Presby-
terrain work. Vol. 4. page 120, SAYS:
The law of God is and must of
necessity be interchangeable and
eternal"
Thus we find three of the great
Protestant denominations agree
ing with Bishop Willis, that the
law Of ten Commandments is
unebongeatts, and yet by their
practice Of keeping Sunday, they
virtually assert that it has been
for surely change OF
the Sabbath would involve
chsnge o. the law
Having found that the Bible
change of the Sabbath. |
we turn in vain to history aud the |
leading authorities of these great
denominations for Sunday sacred |
ness
Bucks Theological Dict onary, |
. Methodist work. ssys: Sabbath /
IN the Hebrew language signifies
rest. and is the ssasatk day Of The !
'rssk. '.and ii must be confessed
that there Is no law in the New
concerning the first