The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-03

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ton Of. That must, therefore,
sufficiently establish the first
day Of the week as our Sabbath,
and nineteen centuries have seen
first day Of week observed.
Again, Of all divine institu-
tions, none are more divine. It
is the oldest, the most sacred
Institution in the world. A thous-
and years older than the Bible.
y thousand years older than the
Decalogue The Sabbath was
made for man, so Jesus an.
and in that broad,
sweeping statement he included
every man from Adamluntil the
last man that shall ever live up
on this earth. and he also includ-
ed the physical, the mental. the
spiritual man.
II. 1t is a holy day 1t is a
day that God made holy and a
day that God designed to make
US holy. He s:tnctifed it, He
said: Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy" and ii you
are ever going to become a holy
man or a holy woman (you will
never get to heaven until you
1o). if you are to become holy,
then I bid you IN Gods name re-
the Sabbath day to keep
it holy. Remember the day that
He has particularly set apart for
Himself that you might honor
Him, that you might grow in
grace and in knowledge of Him.
A day in which you might grow
in the likeness of God. 1t takes
six days of honest labor ordln-
arily to support man and there
is no place for Incidence in Gods
word: it says. Six days shalt
thou labor" and let US be CRATE
full for our work on these six
days but when the Sabbath
comes lay aside your work; let
your business be put far from
you. Let your business and
pleasures, so far as that day is
concerned. be driven from your
minds. It's Gods day. Don't
do your own pleasure The day
must not be secularized. The
pious family cannot be found
where the Sabbath day is not
honored. No wonder there are
so few ministers of the gospel
going out from Christian homes,
when there is so little of real
piety in the Christian homes of
today. I say it with shame, but
it is true that genuine piety is
on the decrease. There is less
of it in every Christian commu-
nifty that I know anything about
than there was just a few years
ago and the reason of it is, pri-
marily, that men have not re-
membered the Sabbath day to
keep it holy. Over three million
men and women on every Sab
bath day are forced to work to
satisfy mans greed and love of
pleasure. The fact that you
ride on the Sunday train, you
that much force a man to labor,
and three million men are robbed
of their Sabbath day to crafty
the avarice and pleasure of a so.
called Christian nation.
III. The Sabbath is wholly
the Lords day, not just a part
of it. Don't think you have
done your duty when you have
read a number of chapters Of the
Bible on the Sabbath day. Don't
think you have done your entire
duty when you go to church on
that day. The whole day is the
Lords. Some one will argue,
.'If I read my Bible and attend
to my religious duties, when I
have done these things, then if
I spend a few hours reading Sec
ular papers: it is all right. % Let
me tell you on the authority of
Gods word, you have no right
to spend any part of His day in
any such way.
Find four reasons it is wrong
to read Sunday newspapers. If
you do not read the papers at all
it is wrong for you to go to the
postofice for your mail on Gods
day. When yon go there it is
either for business or pleasure,
both of which have no place in
Gods holy day. In the second
place, if you take the paper
home and read it you are secu-
larizing Gods day and you are
secularizing that which is holy
IN your own lite. In the tnlrd
place, your example. When you
60 to the postotfice and the pa
per is in the home your children
See you read it and if it does you
no harm your example is not
harmless. In the fourth place
when you are reading that you
are taking time when you ought
to be reading something better,
something that would contribute
to your religious life. If you do
not take time to cultivate your
religious life on the Sabbath you
will not do it any other day. II
when ifty-two Sabbaths have
rolled around you have not used
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