Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-06-14

not command them to- observe it
On the seventh day be says tina,
it is the Sabbath, and that the,
should find no mama in the
field six days shall We gather
IT. but on the seventh day. which
is the Sabbath, in it there shall
be none. but in all this there is
no precept given, yet the exist
ence If such precept is clesrly
implied. That when some of the
people violated the Sabbath, they
were reproved in language which
plainly implies a previous trans
gression of this precept. How
long refuse We to keep my CON-
mandments and my isws?' Aud
now we come to the record of that
sublime event. the personal
decent of the Lord u.non Mount
Sinai. After the Most High had
solemnly espoused the people
unto Himself, as peculiar
treasure in the earth. they were
brought forth out of the camp to
meet with God. "And Mount
Sinai was altog .ther gu a smoS e,
because the Lord descended upon
it in fire; and the smoae thereof
assembled as the smoke of afur-
mace, and the whole mount
quuked greatly. Ont Of the midst
of this fire did God proclaim the
the tan words of his law. The
fourth of these precept is the
grand law of the Sabbath. The
estimate which the Law giver
placed upon his Sabbath is seen
in that he deemed 1t worthy of
n place In his code Of ten COM
mandmentsthus causing it to stand
In the midst of nine immutable
moral precepts. Nor Is this to
be thought small honor that
the Most High. naming one by
one the great principles of NOR
atty until all are given, and he
adds no more, should include IN
their number the observance of
bis halIowed rest day This pre-
oept is expressly gwen to enforce
the observance of the Creators
great memorial, and unlike all
the others, this one traces its OBJ
legation back to the creation,
where that memorial was ordain-
ed. The fourth commandment is
remarkably definite Ii EN- braces.
first. a precept: Remember the
day, to keep it holy"
Second, an explanation of this
precept: SIX days shalt thou
labor and do all thy work; but
the seventh day is the Sabbath OF
the Lord thy God: in it thou
shalt rot do any work, thou, nor
thy son, nor thy daughter, thy
manseryant, nor thy ,usidservaRt,
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates third.
the reasons on which the precept
is based, embracing the origin OF
the institution, and the Very acts
by which it was made, and en-
forcing all by the example OF the
Law giyer himself: "for. in six
days the Lord made heaven and
earth, the sea and all that in
them is, and rested the seventh
day: wherefore the Lord blessed
the Sabbath day, aud ha!lowed
it," The rest day of the Lord is
thus distinguished from the six
days on which he lab,red. The
blessing and sanctifie ton per-
tain to the day of the Creators
rest. There can be, therefore no
Indebtedness in the precept. 1t
is not merely one day in seven.
bnt that day in the seven on
which the Creator rested, aud
upon which he placed his bless
ing namely. the seventh day.
and this is definitely pointed out
in the name given it by God.
The seventh day is the Sabbath
q. e., the rest day. Of the Lord
thy Cd" That the seventh In
the fourth commandment is the
seventh day of the New Tesla
ment week may be plainly proved.
In the record of our Lords
burial, Luke writes thus: And
that day was the preparation and
the Sabbath drew on. And the
woman also which came with him
from Galilee, followed after. and
beheld the sernichre. and how
bis body was laid. And they re-
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