Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-31
Seventh-D Day Adventlsm.

My vacation is now overpast. Many
labors now multiply upon me. A
pretty large pastorate is under my
care. The presidency and principal.
ship of high school is again in my
hands. A double office in a Sunday
School devolves upon me; besides the
oversight of farm, and other duties.
All these things will cause my con-
tributions to the valuable REGISTER to
be irregular. But since l have al
ready shown, and proved every word
of it by the Holy Scripture, that the
Jewish Sabbath law is not binding on
us Christians: and that all the ten
commandments but the one about a
day are recommended and repeated in
the New Testament; and that that one
is rescinded and forewarned against
the New Testament; and that no one
can keep or does keep any one of the
commandments, but that Christ alone
has kept them all for US, and that His
keeping of them becomes our keeping
of them by faith in Him, it IS no long
er necessary that hasten to finish my
series of articles. Neither do / think
that any one was liable to be greatly
misled by Rev. Heacock's animadver-
sions, as they were not supported by
writ; but that the true side might also
be shown, ] wrote. And right here
want to thank my numerous readers
for their many kind marks of graft
tude and thanks they have given me
for my labors, and assure them that it
gives me pleasure to know that they
have been benefited by the word of
God as have presented it to them.
May they all continue to stand fast in
this great liberty, and never be drawn
into false and erroneous. ways of legal
ism and self-righteousness, found in
pretended law-keeping.
o. Rev. Heacock's last article, like
his others, have nothing in it, I will
not refer to it at all.
Sometimes Adventists want to know
why Christ and the apostles preached
in the Jewish synagogues on the Sab
bath day, if they did not intend for US
to keep '.the Sabbath" As to Christ l
will say that being sent as the One to
keep the law He was bound to keep it
to the last jot and title, else we could
never have been redeemed by His work
and merit. And as to His preaching
and the apostles preaching, they GER
tainly had no desire to preach to emp
ty benches. Hence they resorted to
the assemblies, to the syuagogues,
where the people had met. That was
the day the Jews met and that was
the day to find crowd to preach to.
Probably Rev. Heacock himself goes to
preach at time when the people have
come together, for no doubt even he
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church and preach where no one else
is present.
Thersfore, the disciples did just what
any man of good sense would do. They
went and preached when and where
the people had assembled.
The people still being Jews, it was
not be expected that they would all at
once abandon this old day for public
worship even while yet they had not
heard of the Christian religion. After
they had turned away from their Juda-
ism, they that met on the ..first day of
the week" Acts 20:7, I Cor. 1862.
and did not, like Rev. Heacock, still
adhere to the old Jewish Sabbath.
In the oath chapter of Mat. Christ
His people the prosecutions
and calamities that shall befall Jerusa-
lem and the temple. In such times
His people must flee for safety, and He
them to pray that their
flight be not on the Sabbath day or in
the winter time.
From this Scripture Adventists
sometimes argue that Christ meant
'or His people to .'keep" the Sabbath.
slse why would He have said "Pray
hat your fight be not on the Sabbath |
lay?" Remember this was strict
oharisaical Jewish country, and that a |
man in travelling, especially with his
amily, a wife aud little children,
must needs have and and comfort in |
he form of food, clothing and shelter.
None of these things could they beg, /
,uy or borrow of those strict Jews for
owe or money. Hence, the reason Is
lain why Christ commanded them to
ray as He did.
Besides, If this would refer to the Sab
,ath with the idea that they should keep
hat day and not break it by travelling
n it, then the word sswinter timen will
ONE in for as much recognition as
Sabbath day" for they are connected
a the same coordination. But will
Adventists claims that they must
keep" s.winter timen too, as well as