Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-07-12
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Conducted BY Rev. ]. K. Hall.
OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.
Essential to the Welfare Of Man, and
tho Obligation 10 Perpetual.

Essential to the Welfare Of Man, and
tho Obligation 10 Perpetual.
It is impossible to over-estimate the
Importance of the Sabbath. It is es-
sential to the well-being Of man, and
absolutely necessary for the best in
terests Of religion. But important as
1t is there Is a growing tendency to
disregard the sacred day. This Is
largely due to the fact that men are
forgetting that the law Of the Sab
bath is still the law Of God. In the
following article It Is my endeavor to
impress upon the readers Of this pa
per that the Sabbath is still binding.
and that it must be kept by men.
Man needed the Sabbath even before
the fall. 1t was enacted in the Garden
Of Eden. "And God blessed the seventh
day, and sanctifled It: because that
in it he had rested from all his work
which the Lord created and made"
II man in his sinless state needed the
Sabbath, how much more does he
need it in his fallen state? Can we
think that God would suffer an insti-
tuition so needed by man to pass away?
The law Of the Sabbath enacted in
the Garden of Eden was re-enacted on
Mount Sinai. It was placed in the
moral law. It was one Of the ten COM
mandments. It was written by the
finger Of God upon the same tables Of
stone. the. symbol Of perpetuity, that
the other commandments were. = It
was laid up along with them in the
ark Of the covenant before the Lord.
It Is one Of the longest Of the COM
mandments. It stands before the COM
mandment requiring filial obedience
and the commandments 'forbidding
murder, uRcleanness, theft, false-wit-
ness and covetousness. It is univer-
sally admitted that the other nine
commandments are still in force.
Then surely this commandment, one
Of the longest and most important Of
the commandments, Is still in force
too.
Not only is the law Of the Sabbath
found in the decalogue, but It is the
keystone Of the arch. Upon 1t all the
other commandments rest. All exper.
ience shows that the Sabbath is es-
sential to true religion. Do away with
the Sabbath and religion decays.
When religion has decayed how long
will men continue to honor Goo and
keep his commandments. Can We
think for one moment that this COM
mandment, upon which all the other
commandments rest, could have pass
ed away?
Christ set His seal upon the Sabbath.
He said, "The Sabbath was made for
man, and not man for the Sabbath:
therefore the Son Of man is Lord also
of the Sabbath" He could not have
been Lord Of an abrogated institu-
ton, but Lord Of a Sabbath still in
force.
Furthermore, Christ always defend
ed Himself and His disciples from the
charge of violating the Sabbath. On
several occasions such charges were
made. He would not rest under these
charges, nor would he let His disciples
rest under them. He contended vigor-
ously that when the Sabbath law was
properly understood it would be seen
that neither he nor his disciples had
violated it. Why this care to defend
Himself and His disciples against the
charge of violating the Sabbath II the
Sabbath had passed away?
The Sabbath is written upon the
very constitution Of man. "The Sab
bath was made for man." said our
Savior. Man needs it-needs 1t physi-
cally, mentally and spiritually. Mans
body needs the Sabbath rest. It has
been proved scientifically that one does
not gain as much in nights sleep as
he loses in day Of labor, and that
he needs as much as one days rest IN
seven in addition to the rest Of the
night in order to keep himself In good
physical condition. The mind needs
rest as we'll as the body. Without the
Sabbath spirituality would die away.
This is the verdict Of history. Wher-
ever there is no Sabbath, or a Sab
bath spent in pleasure, there Is little
or no spirituality. Could we think for
moment that God would suffer an
institution so essential to the we'll
being Of man to pass away?
The risen Savior, the apostles, and
the apostolic church set their seals
upon the Sabbath. Christ appeared to
the twelve on the Sabbath day, chang
ed by Himself from the seventh day
Of the week to the first. It was just
seven days after this that he appeared
to the twelve again, evidently assem-
bled for worship, when Thomas was
present. The day Of Pentecost was
the Sabbath. The Corinthians were
commanded to make their contribu-
tions on the Sabbath. John was In the
Spirit on the Lords day. And from
that day to this the Christian church
| has Remembered the Sabbath day to
keep 1t holy"
There Is no force in the objection that
the Sabbath passed away with the
ceremonial law. 1t was not a part OF
the ceremonial law and could not have
passed away with it. II the Sabbath
was a part Of the ceremonial law
why was it that it was found In the
moral law and not in the ceremonial
law?
We have already answered the OBJ
lection that Christ abrogated the Sab
bath. Instead Of abrogating 1t he set
his seal upon it.
The conclusion Is irresistible that