Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-03
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THE SUNDAY QUESTION.
Editor of the Courier:
Will you kindly give me space in
your columns to make brief reply to
my friend Mr.. Pearson? While we DIFF
fer In opinion there should still exist
a feeling OF friendship between us for
true friendship Is a pricel ss jewel. l
would be pleased to meet him and
give him my hand for making an effort
and doing the best he could with the
subject under dispute. Now my friend
says II would like to Mace before your
|attempt to maintain them by the
scriptures" Let us notice some things
in his three propositions. First, he
says the seventh day, of the week Is
the Jewish Sabbath and that 1t was
never changed nor never will be. Then
1t must be in force vet. Now I never
could see why any one would brand lit
us lHc JEWISH EodDDdIIl Wilcl lHc DUN
never calls 1t nor even hints such to
be the case. But it repeatedly calls it
Gods Holy Sabbath and the day he
set apart as the Sabbath to be observ
led is always called his Holy Day. He
says in the commandment that the
seventh day is the Sabbath of the
Lord thy God. Exodus 20-10 and in
Isaiah 5S-13, "Herei is BLESSING prom
Used to them that keeps His day."
no co Nv, A
/ will not break nor alter the things
that went out Of my lips Psalms So
"a. Now what went out of his lips? Now
go with me to Deuteronomy 5-22 and
Alp and 10 and he says he spake the
ten commandments and he addeth no
more. Now go to Numbers 1918 and 20
verses and here he says he cannot re-
verse what he has spoken. Please read
it. Again in Job 22-22 and chap. 90 II
please read this also. Now go to the
first chapter Of Psalms and read the
first and second verses. Now go TO
Isaiah 51--commencin-' at the fourth to
the close of the ninth verses. Here he
says The Heavens shall vanish away
like smoke, and the earth shall wax
old like a garment and they that dwell
therein shall die In like manner but
my salvation shall be forever and my
righteousness shall not be abolished.
And his salvation shall be from ~ener-
alton to generation What Is His
righteousness? In Psalms 119, verse
172 says MY tongue shall speak Of
thy word for all thy commandments
are righteousness.
1t seems strange that any one be-
lieving the Book would even attempt
to do away with amy part Of Gods
righteousness. Now if all His COM
mandments are Righteousness this
would surely include the fourth COM
mandment and the seventh day. This
is in harmony with the words of Jesus
when he says it is easier for Heaven
and earth to pass than one little Of
the law to fail. Luke 16-17th
verse. The words one titt,e surely
means every letter it contains or else
it cannot be the truth as stated in this
passage and many other scriptures.
And this to my mind includes the
fourth commandment and the seventh
day.
Now how can any one help believing
but that the law here spoken of is the
law of which the fourth commandment
is a part, and II 1t Is not, what law
and whose law does 1t refer to? You
call it the Jewish Sabbath. Now by
what and whose authority do you
brand it the Jewish Sabbath? Where
is that recorded? Let me ask you here
by whose authority do you call the
first day the Christian Sabbath?
Where is this recorded? Please tell US.
Do you not know that the people per-
vert the scripture In both cases? What
are -.ou going by the traditions Of men
or the Book? You surely know that
the Book never called Gods day the
Jewish Sabbath and you know 1t never
called the first day the Christian Sab
bath. For the Lords Day is the Sab
bath Of the Lord thy God. Now you
say in your first proposition that 1t
never was changed and never will be.
This to my mind Is a manly admission
and truthful statement. But let me
ment. You say that the disciples never
observed the seventh day as a day Of
worship after the resurrection, but the
Book says they did after his Scrucifix-
ion. Luke 90 46th verse. and then
Jesus in Matthew 24-20th verse tells
the disciples to pray We that your
flight be not in the winter neither on
the Sabbath day. This fight took
place nearly forty years after his as
the day as the Sabbath after his as
cension. He knew when this flight
would take place and he here reminds
them at this time it was still the Sab
bath day. He kept the Sabbath. He
said Il have kept my Fathers COM
mandments and l abide in his love"
ST. John 1910, and in first John. sec
ond chapter and third verse he says
we know God IL we keep His COM
mandments. And in the fourth verse he
says HE that saith, ! know Him and
keepeth not His commandments, is a
liar and the truth is not in him. And
then in the fifth chapter, first, second
and third verses he says: We love
the children of God when we love God
The Best of Every