The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-08
SABBATH ORIGIN
WHOLLY DIVINE
The Rev. H. B. Terry Prea ches
First OF Series.
God Set Apart Day and History and
Philosophy spurn Theory of
Human Origin.
As A RELIGIOUS OCCASION.

The Rev. II. b. Terry, pastor OF the
Third Street Methodist church, yes
terday preached his first sermon in
his series on Sabbath observance,
dealing with It as a religious Sabbath.
and gave It's origin. He said in sub
stance:
Mark II. % and 2S: 1.-The Sabbath
was made for man and not man for
the sabbath, therefore the Son of man
is Lord also of the sabbath"
Our Lord met the criticisms of the
Scribes and Pharlsees with the double
argument. First-The end of the
Sabbath Made for Man" Second
His authority over the Lord also Of
the Sabbath
Works of mercy and necessity for
preserving our lives and for the bet
ter fitting us for the services of the
Sabbath are lawful and right, ac-
cording 70 the teachings of our Lord
Origin and History.
To man originally the Sabbath
must have come as a positive institu-
ton. since he could have seen no rea-
son for II aside from the divine COM
mand. II has since been commonly
regarded as partly positive and partly
moral. But now. as reason can be
given for IL, and also for the proper
ton Of time designated. IL may be re-
farded as both wholly moral, relig-
lous and civil sabbath.
BY the Religious sabbath We mean
"a day set apart by God Himself for
His own worship and to secure the
religious culture and final salvation
.of men.
nv the Civil Sabbath. We mean a
day made "non-legal." In which pub
lie business shall be suspended. and
all labor and recreation shall be so
far restrained that the ends OF re-
lig!ous Sabbath may be secured.
u IS OF the Religious Sabbath that
We shall consider, first its origin ard
history. The friends Of the Sabbath
accept and regard as established these
points:
That the sabbath was given TO our
first. parents in Eden: Gen. H. .
and @ And on the seventh day God
ended His work-and He rested on
the seventh day from all His works
and God blessed the seventh day. and
sanct'fied &c." That this sabbath was
.d.ynely intended for all.
That We md uumistakable indica-
"a a..
and In heather literature, between
the original command and the giving
OF the law. Such as the giving OF
mama: Exodus XVI, %: The sixth
day they gathered twice as much
bread two omers for one man" And
Moses said IN vers 23: This is that
which the Lord hath said. tomorrow
is the rest OF thy holy sabbath unto
the Lord; bake that which 'ye will
bake today" Again in verse 90:
six days We shall gather IL; but on
the seventh day. which Is the Sab
bath. in IL there shall be none"
That when the law was given as
found in Exodus. Xxx, TO II. the
tVlAlldiG W nhlltN NllI NdbbhAu NaN
made conspicuous as one OF the ten
commandments That u has the same
rank as the other commandments,
which are universally binding ana
al are moral in their character.
That during the subsequent his
tory OF the Jews. the prophets re-
ferred TO the Sabbath as classed with
the other commandments and that
the prosperity of the nation depended
upon this recognition.
That our Saviour attended the pub
lie worship of the Jews in their syna-
gogues, where Moses and the proph
cts were read every sabbath day, He
removed the superstltious worship
that had crept in, but He recognized
the Sabbath as a Divine Institution
and as made for man"
That after the resurrection OF
Christ the day was changed, accord
ing to prophecy, and that the first
day of the week with the same ends.
has been kept until the present time
.