Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-08
DOCTOR CLINE AFTER
 SUNDAY Vl0LAT0RS

1 ness of mankind, and, thus, authoriz- ed to make any changes in the Jew ish Sabbath demanded by the high est happiness of the race Having thus established his L!ordship over the Sabbath he announces the prin- ciple that is to control his adminis- tration in the words, It is lawful to do good On the Sabbath day. and pro- ceeds to define the doing good in numerous works of necessity and charity by plucking the wheat to supply the demands for food, by heal ing the 'withere dhand' and loosing the disease-bound and opening the blind eyes, In addition therefore to the rest of the weary body already amply provided for and the syna- gogue instruction and worship which he so frequently endorsed in he course of his ministry, for he preach ed in the synagogue on the Sabbath, he adds and emphasizes the doing good feature of Sabbath observance, which when observed by his follow CTS, will transform them more than any other into his blessed like ness, for he went about doing good
 Jesus therefore turns over to man. kind the civil and religious Sabbath
 of the Jew, with both clements greatly improved by his revisions. We find it, containing:
 "1. Rest, from daily avocations for man and beast.
 "2. Worship and Instruction in religion.
 "3 Works of necessity and char ity.' Doing good
 The first of these is to subserve the highest happiness of the physical manhood of the race, and is and al- ways has been the object and extent of all civil legislation in countries where the church and state are kept | separate. The second and third are to subserve the best interests of the souls of men in view of their ac- countability to their God and Father
 Into the second, the worship and instruction provided for in the relig- ious observance of the Sabbath, Christ's apostles, his commissioned and qualified representatives on earth by their baptism in the Holy Spirit. added the observance of the Passover Feast, the Lords Supper, on the Lords Day. the day commemorative of his resurrection from the dead. This day began at surset on our Saturday at the hour the rest of the seventh day ended. Thus for at least the early part of the first century the rest of the Sabbath was taken on Saturday and the worship and in- 1 structiOn in the new religion of Christ was given on Sunday, during 1 the darkness of the day at this time made by civil enactment the closinS hours of Saturday, for Saturday now ends six hours later than it did then. | ucSc SlA uOuIS Ol OuI OdIul ud9 were the first six hours of their Sum day, in which the followers of Christ met and observed the Lodr's Supper. See Acts 20:7, and I Cor. 16:1-3. Be- fore the end of the first century and before the death of John the last apostle, the sanctity of the, seventh day had been largely transferred to the first day, Sunday, so much So. that we find John on the Isle of Patmos saying, about A. D. 96' I was in the spirit on the Lords Day. and Igna- tius, who died A. D. 107, in letter to the Magnesians, saying, No long CT keeping the Sabbath but living i'll observance of the Lords Day, on which our life has sprung up. Let every friend of Christ keep the Lord ; Day, the resurrection day the queen
 and chief of all days To this tes- timony might be added that of Justin Martyr and a number Of others Of the apostolic fathers of the second cen tury."
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