Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
NO FOUNDATION FOR SUNDAY
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Editor Courier 1t might be thought
that nothing more of profit could be
said in your paper on the above sub
iect but l think | have information
that will further interest your readers.
and with your permission will submit
It,
Three different views of the situa-
ton have been presented in your pa
per, Mr.. Samuelson holding that the
observance of Sunday as the Sabbath
is obligatory to ALI Christians; Mr.
Smith holding the same view regard
ing Saturday in place Of Sunday, while
claim that the last stand of Chris
tianity, as given in the New Tesla
ment, permits the gentle world (Which
includes us) to see their own choice
or>reason in the matter as to what day
if any, they observe Mr.. Smith thinks
as | do, that whatsoever Christianity
may demand on the subject, we are
in the wrong forcing observance by
law But as many Christians, like Mr..
| SamUelson, think differently, we are
making this subordinate feature the
burden of our articles.
The Sabbath as given by the Bible
was peculiar to the Jews,-A sign to
| distinguish them from other people.
! See Elk. 31:16, II, and Eek. 20: 1920
THE same is true regarding the rest OF
| the commandments though they con.
/ tanned precepts good and needful to
ali people as all nations have in part
laws common to all other nations. But
/ | think my friend Samuelson makes
one grave mistake when he concludes
THAT since other nations were observ
1 ing a Sabbath for 1000 years before
the Jews were required to, that Jeho
yah, the Jews God, must have de
manded it Of them. In the Bible Je
hovah never represents that he gave
them any revelation, but the contrary
Furthermore they nowhere give Jeho
yah credit for the information, but uni
formly accredit it to their own gods
1t is fault with the masses OF the
earth to hold that their religion Is per
feet and that all other religions are
altogether false The fact is, there is
truth in ALL and falsehood in all, no
excluding our own. There is no relig
ion that is not more or less borrowed
from other religions. That our relig
! ion is in part borrowed from other re
lligions has been proved by the highel
4 CilLlCS Gnu dShhoN lSuSCu ny liS DCS
educated people of the globe, and b.
Christian men, too. Mr.. Blake in hi
4 History of the Heavens" says, "Th'
Arcadians of Elamites, seem to be thu
authors of the legend of creation, Thu
six days work and rest on the seventh
day; they determined the solar year
divided 1t into twelve months, and int
weeks of seven days" They were SUI
worshipers and named the seven day
of the week after the then known, sew
en- planets which they worshiped a
gods who made the earth in six day
and rested on the seventh. This leg
end was passed around among othe
nations and according to Prof, De
litzsch, the Assyriologist, our ten con
mandments, with their Sabbath, exist
| led in Babylon long before the time Q
Noses. Be this as it may, by turnin
to the fore part of Genesis we find tw
Separate accounts of creation. TIL
first account takes all of the first chat
tier and the first three verses of tn
second. And from this on the secon
account is given, the two accounts di.