The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-28

we claim s'thus saith the Lord
for all that we do, and you know thai
there is no thus saith the Lord in thu
Bible for Sunday and that many OF
the Protestants have fairly owned this
| up to you.
Bucks Theological Dictionary, q
| Methodist work, says: Sabbath In
the Hebrew language signifies rest, and
is the Seventh day of the week, and
it must be confessed that there is no
law in the New Testament concerning
the first day.
The Waterman, Baptist paper,
says: tsThe Scripture nowhere calls
the first day of the week the Sabbath
There is no Scriptural authority
for SO doing, nor, of course, any Scrip
tural obligation
Dwight's Theology, Vol. ~, page
4O1, says: ssThe Christian Sabbath
Sunday is not in the Scripture, and
was not by the primitive church call
ed the Sabbath
Rev. Geo. Hodges, who breaches in
one of the largest churches in Pitts
burg, Pa, writing for the Pittsburg
Dispatch, says: "The Seventh day, the
commandment says, is the Sabbath of
the Lord thy God. No kind of arith-
metic, no kind of almanac, can make
seven equal to one, or the seventh mean
the first, nor Saturday mean Sunday
The fact is that we are all
Sabbath breakers, every one of US.
Neander's History, Roses Neander,
page 1856, says: "The festival of Sun
day, like all other festivals, was always
only human ordinance, and it was far
from the intention of the apostles to
establish a divine command in this
respect, far from them and from the
early apostolic church to transfer the
laws of the Sabbath to Sunday"
Now we have owned it all up to
you and we will go farther and own
up that it was "white lie'' to tell
the natives and Chinese that Sunday
was the seventh day of the week for
Sunday is the day of the week that
Christ rose on, and the Scripture says
that he rose on the first day of the
week.
We viii go little farther and say
that the Lord had nothing to do with
the change of the Sabbath from the
seventh day of the week to the first for
the Holy Spirit speaking through Paul,
in Acts 20:27, says: "For I have not
Stunned to declare unto you all the |
counsel of God.' Therefore as the |
Sunday Sabbath is not to be found in |
all this declaration it can not be in |
the counsel of God. Then where does
it come froma Who made the change? |
The ten commandments, the law of |
God, says that "the seventh day is |
the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.o
But in Dan. 1925, it speaks of power
that was to come up that would think
TO change the times and law of God.
Paul said that this mystery of law
essness was working in his day. End
rhes. 2, z: "The mystery of lawless-
ness doth already work, only there is
me that restraineth now until he be
aiken out of the way" Revised Yer
ZION.
Now, what was this mystery of law
essness doing in Paul's days
Sunday was always heather festival
dedicated to the sun by those who
vorshiped it. That is where we get
is name, the suns day. The North
British Review styles it "The Wild
Solar Holiday of All Pagan Times -
day much venerated by the pagans
Now the Galatians were converts from
'aganism. Gal. 4, s: "When we
NEW not God, We did service unto them
which by nature are no GODS ", 9:
Bat now, after we have known God,
how turn we again to the weak
nd beggarly elements, whereunto We
SoAi y w pC III e OOSETScI
avs and months and times and years.
iere is the apostacy of the Galatians
olng back to the service of the gods
hat by nature were no gods and OBJ
CRYING their festivals. This is the
1ystery of lawlessness that was work
ng in Paul IS day. Tt was bringing in
he old heather festivals into the
hurch. The apostles were the ones
hat were restraining it but within a
ew years of the death of the last
postle perversions of the truth began
0 come into the church; so that Mo-
helm writing of the second century
avs: cit is certain that to religions
rorship, both public and private, many
ties were added, without necessity,
nd to the offense of sober and good
Ten.
The Christians were pronounced
THESIS, because they were destitute
temples, affairs, victims, priests, and
Ii the pomp in which the vulgar sup
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