The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-02-21
AS TO SABBATH.
Editor BaIlenger Replies to Rev.
H. Beer on Sunday Work
on the Jail.
His Citations are Numerous and
From Orthodox Publ
cations.

A. F. Ballenger, editor of the Amer.
ican Sentinel, replies to the reply Of
Rev. H. Beer, of this city, published
in this paper some time since, with
reference to work on the county Jail
In a personal letter, enclosed with the
reply, Mr.. Ballenger says that Mr.
Beer has charged him with dishonesty
and challenged him to find the ques-
tions and answers he used, in the cate
chism. We're it not for this charge
Mr.. Ballenger says, he would not par
ticularly care to reply. He also states
that the reason why he did not reply
before was that he has been alone in
his Office most of the time since the
matter appeared in the GAZETTE. His
reply to Mr.. Beer follows:
To THE EDITOR: R:-The American
Sentinel took occasion some time since
to criticise Rev. H. Beer for threaten
ing to arrest certain persons of your
city for engaging in "ball play and
such other sports" on Sunday, and for
doing common labor on that day,
Among the reasons given by Mr.. Beer
for invoking the aid of the civil law
against these persons, was to compel
them to respect our religious preju-
dices," and because they had "lost all
respect for the law of God."
The Sentinel, after calling attention
to the dictatorial tone of the self-ap-
pointed censor of public morals, re-
quested the gentleman to re-read the
fourth commandment before he again
charged anybody with having 'lost
all respect for the law of God" because
he labors or recreates on Sunday, the
first day of the week
Mr.. Beer has followed the Sentiners
advice with the following result, which
appeared recently in the GAZETTE:
81 find it says Remember the Sab
bath day,'-Yes, but which is the Sab
bath day? The next part of the COM
mandment tells us-'Six days shalt
thou labor, but the seventh is the
Sabbath l ask is that not what
Christians are taught? Work six days
and rest the seventh and keep it holy
according to the commandment"
Just as was expected, Mr.. Beer has
adopted the seventh part of time, the
ory that was invented by the Puritan,
Nicholas Browne, in England, in the
latter part of the sixteenth century
But it will not work because it is un-
scriptural. The Seventh day" is and
was just as much the distinctive Bible
name of the day of the week which
God rested upon, blessed, sanctifed,
hallowed, and thereby made the Sab
bath, as is H. Beer, the name of the
man who bears it. If one-day-in-
seven-and-no-d o-day-in-particular is the
Sabbath of the Lord, according to the
commandment, then the Lord must
have rested on, blessed, sanctifed ,and
hallowed. one day in seven and no day
in particular. But all such nonsense
is put to rest by the word of the Lord.
The 54th verse of the Oath chapter of
Luke says, speaking of the day of
Christ's cruciixion: "And that day
was the preparation and the Sabbath
drew on. The Seth verse of the same
chapter says: "And they prepared
spices and ointments and rested the
Sabbath day, according to the COM
mandment. The very next verse (verse
l, chapter 24) says: "Now upon the
first day of the week, very early in the
morning. they came upon the sepul-
cher, etc. From these scriptures it is
evident that the Sabbath according
to the commandment" is the day
which precedes the first day of the
week. Mr.. Beer asserts that the first
day of the week is the Sabbath "ac-
cording tothe commandment" and
the reader is left to choose between
Mr.. Beer and the Bible.