Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-21
SUNDAY vs.. SATURDAY.
DIR. Gamble On Sabbath ObServ
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i DR.. S. w. Gamble of Ottawa
Kansas, reputed to be the great
est living exponent and defende,
of the Christian Sabbath III the
United States, delivered a serie:
OF FIVE lectures on that subjec1
in the M. E Church in this city,
beginning Wednesday evening
and ending Sunday evening
While the attendance was moi
large because of attractions in
other directions, the lectures were
a source of great benefit to those
who did attend. There has been
SO much misunderstanding on
this point that the people were
glad to listen to an authority On
the subject.
The specific object of his COM
ing was to awaken public con-
science along the lines of closer
and stricter Sabbath observance
and fortified this position with
secular as we'll as biblical re a ons.
His coming also follows the clos
ing of a series of meetings by
the Seventh Day Adventist who
teach that Saturday is the proper
and only day to observe as Sab
bath because the Jews were COM
manded to keep this day and al
ways to observe it as their sab
bath.
The researches Of DR.. Gamble
in determining whether Saturday
or Sunday is the proper day to
observe has gone deeply into the
history of ancient peoples and
have extended through a period OF
IS years. HIS method of prov
ing his position was by means of
all ancient Egyptian calendar,
which he said was the only one
having a fixed number of days in
each week. He was also we'll
supplied with books Of reference
and the writings of his adver-
saries.
To prove that the Jewish Sab
bath was not a fixed day nor con-
tinuously observed by the Jews,
he spoke as follows: "The Sab
bath of Creation was carried down
until the building of the tower of
Babel when tongues were confus-
ed. Many nations were formed
each having their own way of
reckoning time. The Egyptians
were the only ones among them
that had a fixed week. The first
day of the Egyptian week was
Saturday and their sabbath was
Friday. The children of Israel
became slaves in Egypt, and lost
their own Sabbath and folio we'd
the Egyptians in observing Fri
day. At Mount Sinai the lost
sabbath of the Jews was revealed
to them, this they continued to
observe until the resurrection"
"The Jewish sabbath was un-
like the original sabbath for six
reasons. Every weekly sabbath
was to be a day of feasting. 1t
was to remind them of their free
dom from slavery. 1t was a
changeable sabbath, it was not
a fixed day OF the week, but Of
certain fixed dates every year. 1t
was only for the Jews. 1t was
sign" sabbath. Once a year
they were to have a sabbath two
days long, and once in so years
the land was to have sabbath
two years long,
"The weekly sabbaths of the
Jewish dispensation were not on
Saturdays, but on each day of our
week in turn for just year at
time. The atone sabbath was
a weekly sabbath. It was a
fast sabbath; while the weekly
sabbaths were feast days.
"Bible years were just as long
as our years, so that when a year
began on Saturday, the next Year
would begin and end on Sunday
aud so on. @ <-:
"When two days together were
observed as sabbath it was not
two sabbaths but one sabbath
two days long.
"The day Of Pentecost was al
ways double sabbath" which
threw the regular sabbath one
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