Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-17
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Sabbath or Sunday, Which?
"To the law and the testimony; II
they speak not according to this word.
it is because there is no light in them"
Isaiah, $40. For what If some did
not believe? Shall their unbelief
make the faith of God without effect?
God forbid; Yea let God be true, but
every man liar" Romans S-3-4.
Paul IF any man speak, let him
speak as the oracle Of God;
Peter. Ali"
Editor Courier: l have been an in
terested reader Of the Courier since
last fall, and I greatly appreciate the
paper for it's columns are open to the
discussion Of all subjects; civil or
ecclesiastical, political or religious,
sacred or secular. have been
especially interested in the discussion
of the Sabbath question, and would
like to say to you and your readers,
that have made the scriptures
study from childhood, having read the
New Testament through when little
boy about six years old, and | never
could find any authority in the
scriptures for Sunday keeping. am
now in my seventy-seventh year, and
forty-flve years ago this winter. | bore
this testimony for God and his truth
| tefore the church and the world, that
| If we we're required by the scripture
| to keep any day as a Sabbath, it was
the seventh, and not the first day of
the week l was then a member OF
the M E. church, and had been for
over twenty years, and leader in the
church, but I thought my ways, and
turned my feet to Gods testimonies
and set to my seal that God was true,
and made haste and delayed not to
keep his commandments, including the
Sabbath day according to the com
mandments. Psalm, 119-59-60. ! want
to say to You and your readers, that
| If we are not to remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy according tc
Gods command, precept, and example
then we are not to follow the script
ures. neither as to precept nor ex
ample. And 1t will not do to follow
the Methodist discipline, for they al
have this article of faith that "Nt
Christian whatsoever, is free from The
obedience of the commandments, thai
are called moral" and one of those
commandments is Remember, thu
Sabbath day and keep it holy Thu
definite article then is invariably pre-
fixed to the Sabbath day.
The Methodist discipline also says
THAT nothing shall be received as
doctrine that cannot be read in tn
scriptures, or proven thereby" | cal
read in the moon, that Sunday, 0
first day Of the week is the Sabbatl
day as easily as can read it in tn
scriptures, and I would as quick tr
to prove that the moon is a big yelloN
pumpkin, as to try to prove by tn
!, scriptures that Sunday is the Sabbat
day according to the commandments.
Every argument that l ever heard
favor Of Sunday observance. eithe
fails to prove it, or utterly disapprove
it, Nothing has done more to estai
!, lish me upon, "thus saith the Lord" o
that Sabbath question, than the COZ
Trajectory positions that men an
, women will take in trying to defen
the Sunday Sabbath, and will then ca
Gods holy Sabbath day the Jews
+ Sabbath" When God repeatedly an
n explicitly, calls it His Sabbath, "Veril
II my Sabbath We shall keep the Sevent
= day is the Sabbath Of the Lord tn
r. God. In it thou shalt not do an
n work"
A. 1t seems so perverse that men ar
s women will try so hard to set as1t
i what God has said on this subje
n that they may go along with the mul
# tude in the broad way Of human trat
a. ho DNnn,c Sunday
y be popular. Catholicism has been CHI;
a. leging Professionalism for many ce
it turtles to show any other authe
ity for Sunday keeping but the Romi
Catholic church, and have offered
big reward for such evidence, but {
le reward has never been claimed.
: the law and to the testimony, if tn
speak not according to this word, it
because there is no light in then
is Isaiah, 500.
re Now Mr.. Editor, ! have net SO
half what | would like to say on II
much mooted question, but l will S
this much more. have been tell
my Methodist brethren for ma
years that could not be consiste
Christian, nor a consistent Methodl
to and not keep the Sabbath day acco
to ing to the commandment
And in closing l will say, Let
hear the conclusion of the whole m
en- ter. Fear God and keep his co
ut mandments for this is the whole dl
of man. For God shall bring eve
work into judgment, with every sec
thing whether it be good or wheti
it be evil" Ecle.-12-13-14. Let &
be true, but every man II
M Roman 3-34.
Andrew Yost, Libertyville, la
of Christ s Authority.