The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-26
About Easter.

y
not observe Easter, and many,
very many l find, do not know
why the Sabbath was changed
from the seventh to the first day
of the week: so please permit me
space 10 explain.
Our Lord has forborne to an.
point in the New Testament
church any annual observance OF
of the day of his resurrection.
He has appointed a weekly cele.
bration of i. in the simple act OF
substituting the tirst day of the
week, instead OF the seventh. as
the Sabbath day. And as an
annual celebration of the event
would simply detract from this
weekly observance, God has alb.
stained from such an appoint
ment. Yet he has clearly de.
scribed the day of the resource.
ton, so that it may stand forth
as an unquestionable historical
fact. The first new moon after
the vernal equinox March 21st)
marks the beginning of the
Jewish Ecclesiastical year. On
the fourteenth day of this first
month, the Passover was cele.
brated, and on the sixteenth day
of that month, being the first
day of the week. Jesus arose
from the dead" And it may not
be out of place to here state that
Astrologers tell us that Friday,
April 18th, 1895, which was the
anniversary of Christ's crucitix.
ion. the heavenly bodies. which
gravitate round the sun, were in
exactly the same position they
occupied in the armament the
day Christ died on the cross,
just 1862 years ago. 1t is the
first time such a thing has oc.
Cured since that great and
awful day-the greatest, perhaps,
the world has ever known. AT
11:2o p. M. April 18th. New
York time, the moon passed be.
fore Virgins (Spica) and hid
that constellation for more than
an hour. But pardon this digress.
ION. Toproceed, as l have said
in theIbeginning, that annual cele.
bration detracts from the weekly
observance, and this is demon.
stated by the fact that many
who are most scrupulous TO OBJ.
serve his resurrection on East.
er (once a year. often look upon
others who celebrate it once q
week by keeping holy the Sab
bath day, which was changed
from the seventh to the first day
in honor of this great occasion.
as old fashioned, strait laced, &c.
Well that is true-they are old
fashioned, as old as the Sabbath
which was instituted as soon as
man was made-thousands OF
years ago, and made more sacred,
if such a thing could be, by the
day being changed to that one
upon which he arose. So nc one
need object to being called old
fashioned, even moss-backs or
autediluvians, just so they are do
ing what our Lord commanded
IN keeping holy the Sabbath. the
the only day He has set apart,
and we are not to keep 1t merely
as a day of rest as some would
have US think, as it was given
man before he needed rest. be.
fore he was compelled to earn
his bread by the sweat of the
brow, but we are commanded to
keep it holy, not doing our own
pleasure, nor speaking our own
words as we are told in Isaiah
Js:13 Ia: lfthou turn away thy
foot from the Sabbath. from do
ing thy pleasure on Ny holy day,
and cali the Sabbath delight
the holy of the Lord. honorable,
and shalt honor Him, not doing
thine own pleasure, nor speak.
ing thine own words. Then shalt
thou delight myself in the Lord.
and 1 viii cause thee to ride upon
the high places of the earth, and
feed thee with heritage OF Jacob
thy Father, for the mouth Of the
Lord hath spoken it.
Aud remember that we have