St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-11-14

Jsens st once struck at the 70 OF the
matter when He declared: she Sab
Oath was made for man, and nonan for
~ Sabbath" This statemen was so
radically opposed to the JEWS idea of
tho Sabbath - to arouse theitterest
opposition. The Scribes and narisees
y their zeal for form and cereony had
deiaed the Sabbath and madtt some
thing for man to worship al serve.
JeHus corrected this error byeclaring
That God had made the Sabbh day to
serve the needs of man. Her then, we
shAto the first and fundameHt doctrine
~ regard to the Sabbath day.r the day
IN rest. The other great ruth, as
4 Jegus went on to declare 1t, VS. that He
- Lord Of the Sabbath. J was not
~ ~ crowded out Of the d as God,
als Father, had been, for hey had
- 6lled the day with burdeome re-
1tffctions and obligations tat it had
\ bec0me i religion of cold I'd lifeless
Z forms and exactions. And d only was
IA Lord Of the Sabbath day, ut the law
~ that day was one OF posive and &C
! NV goodness. 1T is lawfuto do good
4 0n the Sabbath" Here, thu, we have
betnre us the. fundamentalsf the Sab
bath nv question: "The s,bath made
- man Jesus, Lord of Il Sabbath, "
~ tha Nv Of the sabbatt"do good"
NyHEN Jesus was on eth and en-
deavoring to restore tits rightful
! 1Ilnctions the day Of rest w,ch God had
established, It was the extme Of cere-
modal restrictions and ex,tions which
robbed the day Of its true drit and pur-
pos: but to-day the padulum has
sbMung clear to the otheIside, and we
l tlnd that instead Of the Plitanical type
INK sunday we have the "wide-open"
!. Sunday, the Sunday wheniberal views,
in4i6srence to Gods clans, and love
10 pleasure prevail. Instad of the bur-
den u stern religious eactions, there
~ distracting and dem0lizing free
dom n svery departmeI in life. The
Slaxinsss and ease whic keep from
church on Sunday mornig; the Sunday
newspaper, the readingof which rele-
Gates the Bible to the dsty shelf; the
Teasing and social funcbns; the pleas
IRE outings, which TAKE the whole or
part 81 the day: the rus OF trains and
street cars; the grind o the wheels of
business: the din and pond Of the work
shop. Instead Of the Tescribed Sab
batA's day journey Of 'ur Lords day
which the hypocritical harisees would
not allow to be overstpped even to
minister to suffering nd needy crea-
ture, We have the bicys or automobile
run; the long street-cr ride to visit
distant friends; the pinto in the park
o. the country. In Jess day God was
crowded out Of the Sabhth day by mans
superficial zeal in religious things; to-
day, God 10 crowded OFT Of the rest day
BY man's utter forgetf.lness or partial
forgetfulness of Gods ilaims upon him
ana his seeking the things and pleas
,llres OF the world, SO hat there is just
- much need Of effot to redeem the
MISSED rest day from he error and evil
which crowd 1t as here was when
5eens faced His bigotd critics and de-
seiared that the Sabbath was made for
man, that He was Lod OF the Sabbath,
an6 that the law with was to govern
the day was that Of ddng good, and the
same fundamental faces in regard to the
weekly rest day whichhave existed since
( the foundation Of the world, when God
rested on the seventh day and hallowed
/ II, exist to-day.
HE fart that the Christian world
observes the first day of the week
Instead Of the seventh as prescribed by
ne Mosaic law does not in the least
altSr the great underlying purposes
md obligations Of the day. We hav.
not space here to develop the argu-
ment that man, physically and spir.
itually, needs one day in seven fol
rest It Is not necessary for us tt
recall how with the passing Of the
Jewish dispensation in the rejection
Ara crucihxion Of Christ and Hi.
,rssurrection upon the first day Of thu
week and 1.-THE establishment of thu
church Of the Gospel dispensatior
mon the day Of Pentecost, the Jewish
sabbath celsed to be observed by tn.
christians, twho in its stead observed
Sunday. orsthe first day of the week
ant whether the seventh-day Sab
heth az the; Jews or the first-day Sun
sday az the Christians, they both res
npon foundation principles which ar
identical, and unchanged and I'm
rhanreab1e. The day Of rest was mad
fnr man. OF that day Christ is still
YIord and great Exemplar. The on
1900 Obligation Of that day is tina
a doing good. 1t Is not our Durpos
q discuss the question OF whether tn
seventh day or the first day should b
nhsaryeti. nor Is It our purpose t
sdd 10 the great and confused discus
s.snn of What one can do and what on
Gonrht not to do on Sunday. Chris
did not attempt to outline list Q
! a. cans and the can'ts for the day
MT he did call attention to certain
FUNDAMENTAL truths in regard to tn
gsa.v and these are unchanged and un
s.nsngeable. and they afford q sur
,reans of determining what one ough
!: a Az and what one ought not to d
= sunday at the present time, even q
800 49,. would have revealed to tn
Phsrissea the true freedom. and bless