Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-06-14
THE SABBATH.
N. F. Burgess VS. Bishop
Willis.
(COn.inued).


Of mama: Moses said. Eat
that today; for today is Sabbath
unto the Lord: today We shall not
find it in the field. Six days We
shall gather it; but on the seventh
day, which is the Sabbath, in it
there shall be none. And it came
to pass, that there went out some
of the people on the seventh day
for to gather, and they found
none. Aud the Lord said unto
Moses, now long refuse We to keep
my Com maDdments aud my lawsi
TX. 16:25-2S: Or In other words,
why do We refuse to keep my
Sabbath, that l ordained at
Creation: As yet you will remem-
Der the children Of Israel were in
the wilderness of sin; and it was
some thirty days from their
arrival at the wilderness of sin.
before they arrived at the wilder
uess of Sinai, where the Com
mandments and laws was pro-
claimed, and engraven upon
tables of stone. At the expiration
of four hundred and thirty years
from the promise to Abraham
marks the hour of deiiverence to
his posterity. Elk 12;29-42; Gal.
3:17. The nation of Isreal
IS brought forth from Egypt as
Gods peculiar treasure. that be
may give them his Sabbath, and
his law, and himself. The
psalmist testifes that God
brought forth his people with
JOY, and his chosen with gladness;
and gave them the land Of the
heather; and they inherited the
labor of the people; that they
might observe his statutes and
keep his laws" And the Most
High says, Il am the Lord which
hallow you, that brought you out
of the land of Egypt. 10 be your
God" Ps. 105:43 As. Not that
the commandments of God, his
Sabbath and himself, had no
prior existence, nor that the peo-
pie were ignorant of the true God
and his law; for the Sabbath was
appointed to holy use before
the fall OF man; and the COM
mandments of God. bis statutes
and his laws, were kept by Abra-
ham; and the Israelites them
selves, when some of them had
violated the Sabbath, were re-
proved by the question. as before
stated: How long refuse We to
keep my commandments and my
laws" BY read ne carefully Elk.
1854 %; it will be seen by the
narrative. 1.-Tbat God had q
law and commandments prior to
the giving of the mama. a.
That God in giving his people
bread from heaven designed to
prove them respecting his law.
3.-That in this law was the holy
Sabbath; for the test relative to
walking in the law pertained
directly to the Sabbath, and God
said, How long refuse We to
keep my commandments aud my
laws" il was the Sabbath they
had violated. THAT in prov
ing the people respecting this
existing law. Moses gave no new
preoept respecting the Sabbath,
and remained silent relative
to the preparation for the
Sabbath until after the people.
of their own accord. had
gathered a double portion on the
sixth day. 5.-That by this act
the people proved not only that
they were not iguorant of the
Sabbath. but that they were dis
posed to observe it. 6.-That
the reckoning of the week, traces
of which appear through the
patriarchal age. bad been rightly
kept, for the people knew when
the sixth day arrived. 7.-That
there was no act of instituting
the Sabbath in the wilderness of
sin; for God did not make it his
rest day. nor did be then bless
and sanctfy the day. On the
contrary, the record shows that
the seventh day was already the
ct.Esi rest day Of the Lord.
That ths obligation 10 observe
the Sabbsth existed and was
known before the fall Of The
mama. For The Language used
implies tue existence Of such an
obligation. bat does net contain
a new enactment until after some