Iron County register., 1895-09-19
Seventh-Day Adyentlsm.
VI PAPER.

Please do not be frightened, Rev.
Heacock, for fear will ruin the NOR
ais of our people. by their fruits ~
shall know them" saith Jesus. Take
Iceland and its fruits. for an example
There the people all believe as l do
and there they have no Jail, nor penl
| tenitiary, nor sheriff, nor high court
because there are no crimes to be pun
| ished. Only two thefts in the last fif
ty years, and no public paupers no,
bastaros. Yet Christ is preached there,
and this is the fruit Yet the people
all confess to being great sinners, and
explain with old Paul: For thai
which do, | allow not: for what
would, that | do not; but what / hate,
that do.
..If, then, | do that whicn | allow
not, | consent unto the law that it is
| good Now, then, it is no more
| that do it, but SIN that dwelleth in me. >
Rom. 7:15-17.
Yes, we know the law is good, but
that we poor sin-stricken mOrtals can
not keep it. So. like Paul. we appeal
to Christ. the sole and only Lawkeeper
to '.deliver US from the body of this
death"
Jesus says, s.Whosoever looketh on
woman to lust after her hath com
mitted adultery" etc. We wonder il
| the look was not outward2 And James
says, if we break one of the command
ments, we are guilty of all. But man
who has never learned his deep cor
ruption and total depravity cannot see
these things, but persuades himself to
believe that he is a little Christ and d
little law-keeper of his own.
In the community where l live there
are many people who believe as [ do.
yet in the last twenty years not one OF
them has been sued, or had a case in
any court, civil or criminal, yet they
are not legalists nor Sabbatarlans. But
enough of this. The preaching of
Christ and him crucified is the only
safe and sure protection we have
against vice and immortality, Rev.
Heacock to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
But little more about that double
or triple law. Take a few examples
of the use of the term lar. The par
ent= brought in the child Jesus to do
for him after the custom of the law
Luke 2:27. This was ceremonial, yet
it is called the lGU. .'Commandest
me to be smitten. contrary to the law
Acts, 23:3. This was d civil regula-
tions, and it is called the laW. The
law had said, thou shalt not covet. "
Rom. ~. This is a moral precept,
and it is called the laU also. Aud
again The lUW was given by Moses. "
John III. The law as a whole. yet
termed the tar.
Adventists can nowhere find their
ceremonial law given by itself. They
have to pick it out here and there in
scraps. They have to go through the
bible and cut out and carve and split
hairs, and label this sentence, s:moraI
law" and another ceremonial law"
etc. And after all, as | showed you
in my last paper, the bible refers to
the whole thing as 1.-the law of Moses"
The ceremonial law was given to
the Jews only. Adyentists can not
show that it was given to any one else.
This command about the Seventh Day
or Saturday being ceremonial, it has
no binding force over US Christians. 1t
was not designed for them. 1t was
abrogated and blotted out and nailed
to the cross by Christ, as we have
shown you in Col. I'd chapter, and men
are commanded not to judge those who
do not care about keeping abolished
ceremonies. Hence Adventlsts, those
great lawkeepers, even break this
command of the Holy Scriptures when
they persist in Judging US and endeav
Oring to bind burdens on US which nei-
ther they nor our fathers could keep.
.'Let every man be fully persuaded in
his own mind. Bible. This is said
about keeping days. l.. NJ. WAGNER.
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