Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-01

after that We have known God, or rath
err are known of God, how turn "
again to the weak and beggarly ele.
ments, whereunto ye desire to be in
bondage? Ye observe days, and
months, and times. and years. / an
afraid of you. lest have bestowed up
on you labor in vain
He then asks, what were these
people doing?" and triumphantly an
swers. '.Keeping days, just like the
Adventists." Not so fast. please; look
little more carefully. and it" will be
found that they were observing days
just as we suppose Bro. Wagner OBJ
serves Sunday. Who were these Gala
tians? Were they Jews who had for
merly been keeping the true Sabbath
Were they formerly worshipers of the
true God? No, they were converts
from among the heather who had for
merly done service to those who are
no gods. Gal. 4 IS. Hence these OBJ
servances had been heather and not
Jewish. Sunday-keeping was among
these heather observances, but Sabbath
keeping was not. Now notice the force
of the words in the 9th verse. ..How
turn We again." They could only
..turn again" to those things they had
previously observed. Hence Sunday
keeping was Of those things they were
warned against. Everyone who is in
formed knows that among the heather
Sunday took the precedent of alb other
days. and was set apart for worship of
the Sun-god. Here we have the origin
of Sunday keeping. Thus early it be-
gan to encroach upon the Christian
church; and finally this child of heath
enism was adopted by the Roman
estant churches of this day, and called
the christian Sabbath" without one
scintilla of scripture evidence. Faith
er Enright, Catholic priest of Kansas
City, offers one thousand dollars for a
single text proving that this so-called
christian Sabbath" came to US in any
other way than through Catholicism.
Bro. w. was unfortunate in the selec-
ton of texts. as this one recoils on
him with most deadly effect. condemn
ing him and all others who observe
uOLtACA Il"OSs AuStOdu Vi NnO0 bP
pointed time. Bro. w. next quotes
Col. 2:16-17, "Let no man therefore
judge you in meat, or in drink, or in
respect to a holy day, or the new
moon, or the Sabbath days; which are
a shadow of things to come: but the
body is of Christ" and then says.
Here the Adventists are commanded
not to Judge u.s." We must acknowl-
edge his kindness in giving this scrip
ture all to the Adventists, but we OBJ
serve also that there are many scrip
lures that he is willing to give away.
as he does not seem to want them. He
also seems rejoiced to imagine that
the Lord is protecting .'us" from those
dreaded Adventlsts. But let US exam
inc this text. Observe that the Sab
bath days here referred to are shad-
ow of things to come. Now the Sab
bath of the Lord is a memorial of that
which is past. and the commandment
commences with the word remember.
Remember always refers to things in
the past and never to ..things to come"
Hence the Subbath here referred to
are not the Sabbath of the Lord our
God, given to constantly keep in men,
DRY the Lord as Creator and Redeem
err: but are certain ceremonial sab
baths, and were observed before Christ
to point forward to the more full light
and substance to be found at this time
by faith in Him. In the same way
baptism and the Lords Supper now
point back to the cross. By turning
to Lev. % list of these ceremonial
sabbaths (seven in number) will be
found. and in verse SO it is stated that
they are.s.besides the Sabbath of the
Lord" Thus we find again Bro. Wag-
uer using text that has no reference
to the moral law, and giving no liber-
ty to violate one of Gods ten precepts
that James tells us will be the rule of
the judgment. James 2:8-l1 Thus
we find that the loaf which Mr.. w. 80
much enjoys is too thin to make re-
spectacle shadow.
Bro. w. says Paul was not an Ad-
ventist. We ask, was he Bro. Wag-
ner's kind of Christian Paul says.
''By faith we establish the law" Rom.
1881, square contradiction of Bro.
VS. teaching. But Paul was Sab
bath keeper-kept the Sabbath as
Jesus kept it; kept the same day that
the Jews kept, as witness the follow
ing: In Acts 24:14, Paul says he was
believing all things which are writ
ten in the law and the prophets.
Hence he believed the fourth COM
In Acts 28:17, he says: IL
have committed nothing against the
custom of our fathers" Therefore he
kept the same day that the Jewish |
fathers kept. and all know that was
the seventh day.
We say with Paul in Rom. 14:5,