The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-08-05

o.. That we are unfair and uutruth-
ful ia our teaching Of Bible doctrines.
(2). That the Bible is not infallible-
that everything m il is not necessarily
true and from God.
With Gods help / should rejoice IA
talk on these for the need IL great, and
in a paper we must be brief Today
shall limit myself To the first theme,
Our Unfaimess in Bible Study; To one
subject-The Sabbath aud 10 merely a
few illustrations of our unfaithfulness
in teaching about IL. / am not pre-
tending to give a full discussion Of IL
myself not one hundredth Of all the
passages Of the Bible that concern IT,.
Let us take then the Doctrine Of the
Sabbath. around which gather 50 many
practical questions, hot dinners on
Sunday. buying ice, company, calling,
working on a tram. in a p%ostofice.
studying, Ilaying games, playing,
driving, boating; saving a threatened
crop. keeping Sunday instead Of Satur-
day, and many other questionings that
occur TO every earnest man or woman.
shall not argue any Of these ques-
tons; / shall only quote few passages
of the Bible that show how little we
seek to discover the real truth for have
you ever heard them publicly taken
into account? yet they belong in the
foundation. Hear St. Paul.
LET no man, therefore, judge you IN
meat or in drink on in respect Of a
feast day OF a new moor or a sabbath
day which are a shadow of the things
To come -Colosslans 2.l6.
zone man esteemeth one day above
another; another esteemeth every day.
Let each man be fully assured IN his
own mind. He that regardeth the
day regardeth 1t Ia the Lord, and he
that eateth eateth unto the Lord, for
he giveth God thanks; and he that
eateth not, to the Lord lac eateth not,
and giveth God thanks. Let rs
not, therefore, judge one another any
more, but judge this rather that no
man pnt a stumbling IN his brothers
way. Destroy not with thy food
him for whom Christ died. Ii is
good neither to eat flesh nor to drink
wine MOI anything whereby thy broth
er stumbleth. Nor we that are strong
ought To bear the infrmifies of the
weak and not To please ourselves. w.
Romans H..
/ quote at length, for how the honest
dealing with one subject leads rs On
to another
"And while the children Of Israel
were in the wilderness, they found a
mai gathering sticks upon the Sab
bath day. And the Lord said unto
Moses, the man shall surely be pat To
death. Numbers l5.32
Are you prepared to 90 under the
law Of Moses?
at (the Sabbath, the seventh day
il a sign between me and the Children
Of Israel forever, for in six days the
Lord made heaven and earth, and on
the seventh day he rested and was
refreshed Exodus 3l:l7.
Hear Jesus when censured for heal
ing on the Sabbath: My Father
worketh even until now, and ! work. 4"
"And they returned and prepared
spices and ointments. And on the
Sabbath day they rested according to
the commandment. But on the first
day Of the week they came To the
tomb bringing the spices which they
had prepared. And they entered in
and found not the body Of the Lord. D
Luke 1856.
They would not bury Christ ON the
Sabbath-Saturday. at is lawful To
do good on The Sabbath day"
"The Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath"
Jesus said unto him: Arise, take
up thy bed and walk. The Jews
said unto him that was cured: II is the
Sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee
to take up thy bed. And for this
cause did the Jews prosecute Jesus,
because he did these things on the
Sabbath. But Jesus answered them,
my Father worketh even until now,
and / work. For this reason the Jews
sought the more to kill him, because
he not only was breaking up the Sab
bath but was calling God his OWN
Father, making himself equal with
God John 5:S-l5.
How one subject joins with another
What good mar would not long really
to study the Bible? What a privilege
an honest, earnest, humble, prayerful
Bible class How subject after subject
comes before rs, n involving the 9th
er, affecting the minutest affairs Of
our daily life aud opening before MS
the Kingdom Of God.
r. VI. SMITH.
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