The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-10
"a. M. |. S." Has More to
Say About the 0bserv-
ance of the Sabbath
Oay-A Liberal View.

1t was with all reverence and love
for the Lords own Sabbath Day that
took up my pen against Sunday re-
striction.
The Sabbath to which the Lord
placed his signature as his especial
and hallowed day. the Bible plainly
states is the seventh
If We read and take the Bible as a
guide, not allowing our mental Wis
ion to become obscured by tradition,
we will find that in no place has the
seventh day. Sabbath been abrogated.
The command reads thus:-"Rem-
ember the Sabbath day to keep it
Holy-The seventh day is the Sab.
bath of the Lord, thy God-for in six
days the Lord made heaven and
earth, the sea and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day, where
fore the Lord blessed the Sabbath
day and hallowed it, Not thus
Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it Holy-for in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth and rested
the first day: wherefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day and hallow-
ed it,
The Christian world agrees that
Christ was the creator of all things,
being the word by whom all things
were made; John 1:1-3) That He
was there for the One who made
the Sabbath for man in the beginn-
ing
He being Lord OF the Sabbath
could have changed it. or wiped It
out entirely if He had so wished.
With him ends forever the right to
NEEDLE with it.
1t is evident the apostles did ne.
change il, because a clear distinction
is made by each of them between
the seventh day and the first day
of the week; and the recognition they
give to the seventh day as the Sab
bath, may be readily discovered by
looking into the Bible.
Here is one instance in point.
Luke 23:00-54-56. 'And that day was
the preparation and the Sabbath
drew on. And the women also
which came with Him from Galilee,
followed after and beheld the sepul.
cher and how His body was laid;
and they returned and prepared
spices and ointmepts; and rested the
Sabbath day, according to the COM
Now the first day OF the
week very early in the morning they
came to the sepulcher. bringing
spices which they had prepared; and
certain others with them"
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bath instead of the seventh you make
void the part of the command which
says 1.-The seventh day is the Sabbath
Of the Lord thy God" II a parent
commands a child to perform a task
on certain day and the child should
without just cause, neglect the duty
On that day and perform 1t on anoth
er, would this show proper respect
for the parent And would the par
ant approve such conduct?
"A. H. I. t. does not favor Sunday
base ball because the Lord our
God hath said, Remember the Sab
he fourth commandment in defense
Of Sunday. The mockery of It, And
'urther says 1T would be well TO re-
member that We can never advance
n all our boosted progress or civil
,ation, any farther than the cover /.
If the Holy Bible
We should not let the tradition of !
men blind us TO the truth contained
within that book. And God give us /
to stand by those truths and /
lot silently see them covered over, /
II prevented by error!
In contrast to our ancient and d.
-inIy established Sabbath, let US con-
ider the origin OF Sunday. /
Sunday was the name given to the
irst day OF the week, (dies soils, day
4 the SUM by the heather prior TO
IS recognition as a day of obser-
ance by Christians. Before Con-
tantive's time 1921 A. ID there is
o trace Of the doctrine Of the change
# the Sabbath He. while still
eathen. commanded that every kind
business excepting agriculture
hould be laid aside for that day He
egarding it as a heather festival.
This law for the first time gave to
be Sunday festival something of a
abbatn character as il was a day OF
est made so by Roman law.
The council OF Laodicea, in 36A A.
J. first established the religious OBJ
srvance Of Sunday and "anathemati-
cd the observance OF the Jewish
aobafn-"
The Catholic church willingly takes
ne responsibility of the change
observe. Question: prove you