The Kalispell bee., 1902-04-16

tory of the human race, and, there
fore, He attached to it a new day
for the commemoration of this stu
pendous event, day unencumbered
with the ceremonial rites of the old
Mosaic dispensation. The covenant
of works died with the old Sabbath,
and the covenant of grace was born
in the new The old-Jewish Sab
bath-died and was buried with
Christ, the new-the Lords day
rose with Him from the grave.
He marked the first day of the
week, which is the Christian Sab
bath, or the Lords day. with many
significant events. The marvellous
fact of the resurrection was accom-
plished on that day, a fact of infinite
and eternal meaning to a lost and
despairing world. The Jewish Sab
bath was a day of slaughter, of
death; the new or Christian Sabbath,
a day of life. Jesus made it a day
of God meeting, sacred, holy day,
by appearing in it to his disciples.
he disappeared, whole week passed
by, and He met with them on the
first day of the week, our Sunday. He
remembered the day after He
ascened into heaven and marked it
in a most peculiar and remarkable
manner by bestowing His best gift
upon the church-the baptism of
Pentecostal fire-making it the happy
and ever memorable birthday of the
Christian church. So it was bap-
tized unto Christ and became the
Lords day, a day of joyful worship
and everlasting commemoration. Holy
to God the Father, who honored it
by raising His son from the dead
and made it the beginning of a new
creation. Holy to God the Son, as
the ever memorable day in which He
triumphed over death and wrought
complete redemption. Holy to God
the Spirit, who came down from
heaven in power and sanctified it in
holy baptism.
The apostles, who were taught by the
Spirit and who were commissioned to
settle the constitution of the church,
observed it, and Christ honored it
again and again by revealing Him
self to John, the beloved disciple, as
He was "in the Spirit on the Lords
day" 1t makes an era of redemption
and, therefore, is greater in its rev.
elation of the character and purposes
of God, and in it's deep and profound
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of creation. How, then, should we
observe it? We should remember the
| time law and cease from labor in
secular things. A toiling world,
driven by such Egyptian taskmasters
as greed of gain and lust of power
may see in it a great emancipation
than Moses; one who walks the earth
clothed with divine authority, and, in
behalf of weary millions, proclaims
that rest, physical rest, is a divine
and inalienable right and duty of
man.
How, then, should we observe it?
We should remember the spiritual
needs of our being, and welcome it
with the great truths which it COM
memorates, as our great spiritual
emancipator from slavery to ignor-
ance and sin.
1t is not our day, nor is it the
devils day, but it is the Lords day
We should use it in commemoration
of it's great events; in proclaiming
it's great truths; in meditating upon
it's great blessings; in glad gather
ings in sanctuary; in blessed minis
trations in the name of the Master
and in such spiritual activities as
will transform our moral natures into
the likeness of Christ and fit us fol
heaven.
To make it a day of slumber, OF
absolute idleness. of travel, of Sun
day newspapers, of sight seeing, o
social visiting, of labor and toll, o.
gadding from house to house-tt
{ make it a day of spiritual inactivit!
: and absent ourselves from the hous'
of the Lord, is to profane it and siI