Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-25
THE SUNDAY QUESTION.

! THE SUNDAY QUESTION.
| Editor Courier:
AS l am thankful for past favors
Will come again, asking YOU to ..iiiily
give me the '.pDa".nni's through H"ur
columns to briefly reply to Mr.. Fred
rickson and Mr.. Graham.
First | will say to Mr.. Fredrickson
| in his article he misquotes me several
! times. He says that the first day was
only mentioned eight times. but he
| leaves out the rest of il. | said in the
| New Testament and still say so. Yes,
| there are others who have read in the
| Old scriptures of the feast days, the
| first day Sabbaths but they were holy
unto them, but the weekly Sabbath is
| Gods holy day and besides / said
nothing about those feast days as he
claims | did, for that was not the
question we were discussing but the
| day we should observe as a Sabbath
from Bible standpoint. He then tries
to roast me. He says j note now that
in his letter he does not care to obey
the ordinances of God but just part of
| them and saws do i mean to say that
they are partly wrong, and then wants
to know if ! mean to correct God or
Gods ordinance. No sir. / have not
even limited so, nor did I call them
oxygen either. Please hereafter quote
me right. And then he wants to know
| if / know that Moses wrote the first
five books of the Bible. No sir do not
nor neither do you know it. The best
posted men In the world today differ
in regard to who wrote them, proving
that we do not know who wrote them.
Every one has the privilege to believe
he wrote them but still believing any
thing does not make 1t, an absolute
fact. And then he says, BE 1t known
that the Lord God made or created the
first day as we'll as all other days." and
then says it is evidently the Lords
day as well as all other days. Yes, God
made light out of darkness and he di-
vided the light from the darkness and
he called the light day and the dark
ness he called night. and he named the
davs from the first day to the seventh.
lex. LIST chapter) and placed his bless
ing on the seventh day, eek. 2 and 81
and set it apart as his holy dav. not
just any or all days or just a part of
any time, but the definite seventh day.
And then. my friend says he notes
that l fall to find the word Sunday In
Revelations i and 10. Yes sir, l do.
And then he claims that the word
Sunday is mentioned in two of his
books of Revelations ] and 10 and in
his other two books are the words "on
the Lords day Now will he tell us
how many books there are of REVEAL
lions. ! have never seen but one but
he says he has four. Now lots Of peo-
pie in this country are from Missouri
and will have to be shown some things
land in regard to his four books of
Revelations, ! am one Of them. He says
he has searched few Bibles to per-
lection and was not fort years about
it either. He may not be forty years
old and he may have put in most Of his
time readin~ his books of Revelation. /
want to say to him that the word per-
faction and was not forty years about
have never had the pleasure of seeing
any one that had the Bible to perfec-
ton. / wish to God l could be blessed
with so great a privilege. And he
mourns for fear | will evade my state
men. which is as follows:
Now please give me the chapter
and verse where the Lord says that
the first day is the holy day or Sabbath
day, and where did he set it apart or
sanctify or bless it or command any
one to keep 1t for any purpose what
ever and ] still say SO. If you quote
me as your letter reads, YOU say THE
holy day where ! say HIS holy day.
His holy day is quite different to days
set apart TO people for other purposes,
50 ] still stay with my statement that
there is no scripture binding any day
on us but the seventh day. And then
he wants to know who that Lord is
that ] mean and where he keeps him
self. And then he jumps again on 10
ordinances. Let me tell him once more
that has nothing to do in this contro-
yersy. and then he refers us to chap
ter and verse where he says the Lord
observed the first day of the week, and
gives us Matthew "a, IT, Bugs again,
for-it has no reference to the subject at
all Please read 1t and see. Then ne
90. A11.r IKE
ances and reject the other part then
it would be like having a lamp but re-
ject oil. So now if my friend can
think of anything besides ordinances
and will stay with the subject under
discussion next round, come again il
you like.
And now comes my esteemed friend
10 Graham, and says on Dec. g. he mo-
tees an article from Carlisle Smith in
answer to Mr.. Samuelson, and in the
same breath he says he failed to notice
the article and cannot judge Of its rea-
son. l suppose he undertakes to an
swer IL for Mr. Samuelson, as Mr..
Samuelson don't seem to answer 1t. 7
notice that Mr.. Graham differs with
rae on the Sabbath question but like
others he gives no scriptures to prove
his first day Sabbath Why? Only one
reason. He can't, because he has not a
line to sustain it and he knows it. He
says / have long ago learned that we
may reason correctly from a false
basis or we may reason falsely from
true basis and both be misleading.
Now when you reason in favor Of your
first day Sabbath what grounds do YOU
base your reason on; divine or hu
man authority? If divine I again ask
for the chapter and verse. To my mind
everything to induce proper observ-
ance OF the day from a Bible stand