The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-06-24
THE slJNII))EAI Il N Is CESSI
A Plea for the I'rese,v siosa Of the sabbath
Day. Il: s5SsH
4 sCharloston News and Courier, Jsae l5sh..

"The Sunday q Necessity was the
theme yestsrday Oh Ehs ldiaconraa Of
the Revl j., Keis. g. Frazer, pastor 81
the seoopd Psssbys yseriant Church. a
large cobgreeation gavs attentive heed
70 the wbrds of tie. eloquent divine.
The text was taken frsm Isaiah lviii:
1914. Dr.. Fraser said IS. j,
Why am I under Obligation to OBJ
serve one day ia seven as asy asj .of {
rest? Il will not do ia answer to this
question to say that the Fon.sh Com
mandment requires the observance of
such day, because The question still
presses, why does tho Fourth Com
mandment require itf The llaw ~h:oh
says "Thon shait not steal does not
find its ethical obligation in the fact
that it is written in the Deualogue.
1t was wrong to steal before there
was any ssDecalogue. IT. would be
wrong to steal today even ven had that
Decalogue neverh been written. Steal
ing is wrong in3itself efarnally wrong,
sad because il is wrong that Deealo-
gne forbidslit, and Were;it not wrong
the placing isin:the Deoalogue would
not make il wrong. The ssme is true
Of every one Of the Ten Command
ments. These 9 Commandments sim,
ply enunoiate great moral laws and
moral laws are binding always and
everywhere. Yon cannot get away
from them any more than you can get
away fromthe movements Of the tides
or the sweep Of the stars. The dis
tinotion between right and wrong is
absolute and eternal and no power on
earth or in Heaven can mako il other.
wise. s1 !. Is "a 5af
Now this Commandment which says
to you aud me 8 Remember the Sab
bath, observe one day in seven as a a
rest day." takes It's place among these
moral laws. Tt is binding, not be-
cause it happens to be found written
in the Qla Jewish Deoalogue, but be,
cause tits inherently tight; because.
there is some reason why We oughtito
observe aISabbath;. some reason why il
is wrong not to observe q Sabbath.
What is thisreason, I ask2 What iB
the real basis Of q Sunday observance2
This is q question which every intel
ligent man, chrrohman and non-i
ohurchman, ought 70 ask and truth.
fully striveito answer. ssj; 5s'ssl s.
It is fortunate for us, j think, that
our Lord was compelled to pen this
question ia his day, fortunate that
the basis of the Sabbath law was mie:...
understood by those of HIS days. The
Jews placed that basis in the Fourth.
Commandmentin the lnere outward
letter Of tho Depslogse. Jesus placed
it in ths nacessities of man, the needs
Of human natuse. The Sabbath, ,'''l
he said, I. was made FOR man, man. B and
made fcrfhim because he \ needs il For
his proper eyslopment 90 man. You
see the differsnoe, DO you mott The
Jews said the Sabbath was written iii
the Book Of the Law. Jesus said is
was written in man 8 nature. He
raised that 81 iilstitution from o mere
Jewish ordinance 20 d human necessis
ty and claimed that the ultimate aus
thority for its Observance was not
Moses, bnt maj, not the Decalogue,
but nature. This is important teach-
ing for:us TO keep d mind today whom
men are talking about the abrogation
Of the Sabbath Law. The abrogasion
Of the Sabbath It viii De time enodgh
to talk about that when you begin to
talk abont the abrogation of the law
which says % man " .iina order TO live
you must eat and drink and breai D b J. 3
If ever The time comes 4 when q man
may dispense with food and watef and
oxygen. then helmay no longer need
a Sabbath gns tso lore 8 &c. he cos tiri-
ues to be- man the Sabbath. will con
tinueto be ane6ossity Of hie nature.
The Sabbath as q 81 eWish ordinance
may have beer; temporary and ahado-
wy, bntthaa Sabbath as 8 necessity,
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