Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-01


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PLEASED 70 NOTE INTEREST IN
SABBATH QUESTION.
| Editor Courier:
| l have read with interest some ot
the articles recently published IN
| your paper, and am pleased to note
that men today are sufficiently in
terested in the subject of the Sab
bath question to interchange their
| views concerning it. Indeed the time
is surely approaching when all men
must take a decided stand Tor, or
| against the true Sabbath.
I beg the privilege of writing few
| lines for your paper. I do not desire
| to monopolize your columns, nor tire
your readers with one long discourse
so l needs must divide my words I'M
der three or four subjects. l desire
to present to you the simple truth
as found In the Word Of God.
So much has been said about the
law" and so many references in the
Bible speak about "the law" the
commandments" etc, that believe
we should know first of all that there
are two distinct codes of laws men
toned in the Bible. We should know
which of these two codes of laws is
meant by the Bible writer when he
uses the term claw" commandment
ordinance" or statute So I will
confne my words to the two laws in
this article.
These two laws were two distinct
and separate codes of laws. The first
we may call the Moral Law or Gods
Law and consisted Of ten command
ments spoken by God on Mt. Sinai.
The second we may call the Mosaic
law or the law OF Moses, the Levitical
law. or the Ceremonial law 1t was
spoken by the Lord to Moses, to be
taught " him to the people OF Israel.
The last clause of IL Kings 2l:8
speaks Of both of these two sets OF
laws. It reads: only if they will OBJ
serve to do according to all that |
have commanded them, and according
to all the law that my servant Moses
commanded them"
Both laws were given from Mt. Sinai
but the ten commandments were
spoken by the Lord to the people.
while the other law which pertains to
the rites and ceremonies and sacrifice
of the children of Israel, was spoken
by the Lord to Moses while on the
Mount Moses in turn was to give 1T to
the people. "And the Lord spake un-
to you out of the midst of the fire;
We heard the voice Of the words but
saw no similitude: only We heard
voice. And he declared unto you
his covenant which he commanded you
to perform, even ten commandments;
and he wrote them upon two tables
Of stone" Deut. 4:12, 10.
The very next verse, the fourteenth,
says: And the Lord commanded me
(Moses) at that time to teach you
statutes and judgments, that you
might do them in the land whittier
We go over to possess it" Thus again
the two codes are mentioned and dis
tinguished, and so in other references.
Moreover. the two laws occupied
entirely different places in the Ark.
Deut. 1875 says: "And turned my
self and came down from the mount,
and put the tables in the Ark which
I had made; and there they be, as the
Lord commanded me-
Notice that this law, which was
written on two tables of stone, was put
in the ark, or inside of the Ark. Read
Deut 81: 24.26. And it came to pass,
when Moses had made an end of writ
ing the words of this law in a book,
until they were finished, that Moses
commanded the Levites, which bare
the Ark Of the covenant of the Lord,
saying, Take this book Of the law, and
put it in the side of the ark Of the
covenant Of the Lord, your God, that
it may be there for witness against
thee Moses law was put in the side
Of the Ark probably in a pocket or re-
ceptacle made in the side wall of the
Ark to hold It,
The term sabbath appears in both
laws, hence confusion has sometimes
arisen concerning some passages
where "Sababth" is mentioned. The
Moral Law says: Remember the Sab
hath day to keep it holy: six days shalt
thou labor and do all thy work; but
the seventh day is the Sababth Of the
Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do
any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter thy manservant, nor thy
maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates: for
in six days the Lord made Heaven
and earth, the sea, and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day where
fore the Lord blessed the Sababth day
and hallowed it." Elk 20:S-11.
I This term Sabbath means but one
day, the seventh day of the week,
and came each seventh day as the
| weeks rolled by. But Moses law
speaks of many Sabbath days which
came on certain fixed days OF diff
ferent months and required each year
on the same dates. Note that this is
true of the following: Speak unto the
children Of Israel, saying, in the
seventh month in the first day Of the
month. shall We have Sabbath, a
memorial of blowing Of trumphets, an
holy convocation. Lev. %: a. ALSO
on the tenth day of this seventh month
there shall be day-pf atonement: 1t
shall be an holy convocation unto you;
| and We shall afflict your souls, and
offer an offering made by fire unto the