The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-12

the enforcement of any of its teach
ings upon the unwilling. The church
renders obedience to every just hu-
man law.
"By the Son we're all things. Gre
ated that are In heaven and that are
in earth, visible and invisible, wheth-
er they he thrones or domnions, or
or powers, all things
wer cercated by Him and for Him.
Not the individual governments of
earth, but the original powers and
No student of Gods
word would affirm that Russia, Greece
and Rome we're created by Christ and
for Him.
Again It Is said, Christ is the head
of the church as the husband is the
head of the wife. AS the husband
lovingly devotes all the powers of
which he is possessed in behalf OF
his weaker companion, so Christ de-
votes all the fulness of power which
the Father is pleased should dwell
in him for the sustnence of His
church on earth When the church
turns from her legal husband to seek
power from civil organization, she is
said in the word of God to be guilty
of spiritual adultery.
Christ has gone to htaven and. Is
on the right hand of God. angels and
authorities and powers being made
Subject unto Him Peter 3:22.
Through the blood of His cross, be-
ings I'm heaven were reconciled to
Him, il their remained any of the
seed of dissatisfaction sown by the
And you hath he recon
clled that were sometime alienated
and enemies in pur mind by wicked
works. Col 1 20. 2t
"}sing reconciled to Christ, the
church has great future before It;
for II is written of the head, And
thou, o tower of the flock. the
stronghold of the daughter of Zion,
unto thee shall it come, even the first
dominion, the kingdom shall come
to the daughter of Jerusalem Micah
AS. And in the ages to come He
will show the exceeding riches of His
grace in His kindness toward us
through Christ Jesus.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
On Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Elder James NJ. Shultz addressed an
attentive audience on the subject,
why We Are Seventh-day Advent
lists. BY the use of 2 Tim 3:16,17
coupled with Luke 24:27. A, 40, he
showed that the Old Testament rec
ord was inspired Of God, was recog-
nized by Christ and the later writer's
as holy Scripture, hence should be
considered as verify part of the
word of God as the New Testament.
Rev. 1:10 was chosen as the basis
of his remarks on the Sabbath ques-
tion and was coupled with Mark
2;272S, showing that Christ is Lord
of the Sabbath.
That the audience might understand
what day is denomnated the Lords
day reference was made to Gen. 2:1-3,
where we are told that God ended His
work, he rested on the seventh day,
He blessed it, and sanctified II or
set II apart for holy use. These
four successive steps necessary I'm
a Sabbath day were taken by
God ere the fall of man, and hence
the Sabbath day was given to a race
of righteous beings to direct them TO
the one who had i'm six days made
heaven and earth the sea and all
that In them is. God made the Sab
bath day on the first seventh day of
time. An attempt To make a weekly
Sabbath at the present time would re-
suit In failurer since the memorial
would not re-occur upon day of
the week, but would re-occur upon
a day of the month; for example the
fourth of July. the memorial of the
declaration of Independence.
Said the speaker. Christ magnifled
the law and made It honorable lisa.
d2:21.) The law contains the Sab
bath commandment It was Chrlst's
custom to keep the SABBATH (Luke
'416). He taught the binding claims
.of the law and magnGed It's holy pre-
Icepts, Matt SIT, 49, Those who
break the commandment and teach
'''H w Wv W HHhii ut Ndiltu tue least
in the kingdom of heaven, (verse l9)
From Mark 1871, 2. Luke % Sc and
Luke 24;1 we learn that Chrlsts dis
ciples kept the Sabbath day accord
ing to the commandment Paul, the
great Apostle to the Gentiles also OBJ
Iserved II and II was found faultless
as touching the law CActs 1914, II ,
1t was his manner or custom TO OBJ
Iserye IT, Christ taught 'lIis disciples
to observe it for forty years after His
resurrection, Matt 2l:20) Christians
who obeyed His voice were permitted
to escape unmolested from besieged
Jerusalem on aifbther rather than
the Sabbath day.
From a study OF lisa. 5S:13, a.
Seventh-day Adyentists were admon-
ished to take their feet from off tho
Sabbath day. lisa. 56;l, 2 shows that
a message of warning to Sabbath
breakers would so forth in the last
days. Isa 66:23 was used TO show
that the Sabbath being instituted be.
fore the fall for race of rlghteou.
beings, has ever been regarded a.
sacred and holy of God, and will con
tinue throughout eternity.