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

Point is produced in favor of the sew
enth day, but nothing can be produced
In favor OF the first day. No sanctity,
no commandment, no penalty nor no
blessing. II there is, man of your
ability should know where it is and
should be held accountable and re-
sponsible. II he don't give us thus saith
the Lord for 1t. Not a multitude Of
words for that is no authority and
will not be accepted as proof.
Now you wish to know If / consider
that we are under the law given at Mt.
Sinai and then say l take the position
that the fourth commandment Is a re-
ligion. No, / never said that the fourth
commandment was a religion but /
will say that 1t is a religious precept
and living in obedience to it, is re-
ligion. If not. what is religion? Yes
sir, / claim we are under the law Civ
en- at Mt. Sinai. That law, that only
law that God himself wrote on tables
of stone. The only law that condemns
mans earthly existence That law that
Jesus lived or obeyed, that law of love
to God and love to man.
That law he speaks Of in Matthew
% from the SO to the Al verses. That
law which Is high enough to reach in
to the throne of God, which is deep
enough to reach unto all humanity.
law of love. The first four Is love to
God and the last six is love to our
fellow men. That law that Jesus re-
ferred to when he said heaven and
earth should pass away before one
title of 1t should fail. Quke 81 and
10. That means every letter in it or 1T
don't mean what it says. That law in
cludes the fourth commandment and
the seventh day or it is not the truth
as stated in the reference and other
scriptures. I wish every one of your
readers would turn and read Matthew
Is: Z, and and all will know by the
highest authority on earth or in
Heaven my belief on your first day OBJ
servance. / know and all Bible stu
dents ought to know that we have no
commandment in the scriptures for the
first day Sabbath. Then 1t must be a
commandment Of men. | will admit
that you have the tradition of the
Catholic church for 1t and the opin-
ions of men but Webster says that
tradition Is an opinion and 1t may be
good or bad, false or true. Then we
all have our traditions or opinions and
it Is not very good proof on Bible
question. Now turn to Matthew 9TH
chapter II. 18, 10 verses and especially
the 10Th verse and then tell me what
position it places many men all over
our land when they teach men to
break and trample under foot Gods
holy day. AS referred to in Isaiah 56th
chapter from the first verse to the 9Th
verse, and seth chapter, and 18th
verse. / may break the commandments
but may God help me that l may never
teach others to do so. Please turn TO
Revelations %, IS and 10 verses and
read what it says about them that
adds to or takes from the things writ
ten in the Book. Now let me ask you
ocy in, ,t,I a erat
Sabbath? Do you add 1t to the book or
do you take 1t from it? You surely
want to add 1t to it for you know it is
not in 1T now and now you want civil
power to enforce Sabbath observance,
If | understand you You say let us do
So Why don't you try to have law
enacted compelling people to be bap-
tised or make Christians by law? Just
about as consistent to do so
But let us see for moment what
civil power has done in different ages
of the world. 1t was civil power in the
control of pretended religionists that
cast Daniel in the lions den. 1t was
civil power that cast the three Hebrew
children in the fiery furnace; 1t was
civil power that put Paul and Silas
in prison, but God delivered all of them
because they were obedient unto Him.
1t was civil power that BROUGHT on the
inquisition and civil power was the
cause of our Pilgrim fathers Ending
on Plymouth Rock. All this and many
times more all brought on in the name
of religion. Not religion but pretended
religion. Here you may cry, Won
derful discoveries again" and let me
tell you that I have personally know
o. C. Graves for thirty-ive YRS and
when you take your hat off to him you
simply tip it to gentleman--and yet
in the light of all these facts there is
a strong effort being made all over
our country TO establish the same
power by law. and the same cause win