The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29
IS SABBATH A NECESSITY
 TO THE HUMAN RACE TODAY :?
Fly ISABELLE MARR

In The Age-Herald Tuesday, Septem- Der 24, the following appeared:
 '"The action of the transfer company was direct violation of the law and l saw that it was stopped. Sunday. week ago, while sitting in my office at the city hall, saw that the Harris Transfer company was moving some one into the Dangaix building. and I personally in formed the manager that he was voat- ing the law and that it must be stopped. l allowed him to unload what was then on the wagon, but forbade him hauling more Yesterday word came to me Mat the Kates Transfer company was hauling office furniture from the Brown Marx Building and I sent Officer Ivey to the 6l5rner and ordered that it be stopped Xhis was not only according to the law. which had previously cited, but plain justice to the other transfer company.
 "A. o. LANE,
 Commissioner of Public Justice
 The above news item makes the aver age thinking mind stop and ask the question. "Is the Sabbath a necessity to the human race?'
 Sabbath, l. The seventh day of the week as set apart by the fourth com mandment, to be observed by the Jews 
 2. Among the English puritans Scotch Presbyterians, the first day of the week as observed by Christians.
 3. The institution or observance of day of rest, Independent of the period ob- served.
 4. Any period of rest covering one-sev- enth of the time.-Standard dictionary.
 Is the Sabbath to be a day of relief to toiling humanity or is 1t to be a day set aside for private and public worship and when that Is done, man is privlged to the pursuit of making money?
 A study of the origin of the Sabbath by learned men would have us believe it to be a day around which the division of time was the foremost thought. and fhe old usage of the day was arbitrary, but viewed from the present day aspect the Sabbath is a day in which man ex- emplifies that higher principle which is an end toward the relationship existing between God and man. "The Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath" The old time idea that a thing is true because 1t Is in the Bible" may be improved on by changing it to be, that the thing is fin the Bible because it is true" The necessity of the Sab bath or a day of rest, is sanctioned by all men.
 The Sabbath day was not Hebrew in- stitution-a thousand years before the lirst lteDreW enllBraft came the calenuaf s called for a day of rest, the more prim- tive the people the more surely do we find authority for this appointed day of rest. The great Hebrew law-giver was not the first to discover the danger of man not observing a rest day and yet the Hebrew prophets insisted on no labor at a certain interval, showing that the observance of a rest day had preceded the advent of the commandent, "Remem- Der the Sabbath day to keep it holy" The word holy in the old Testament usage means "set apart to Jehovah" The holy object may have been day. a garment. a piece of money, etc, 1t was set apart for holy use. Even the school child will tell you that the Israeltes emerged from bondage and were given the Ten Com mandments as foundation for their new life and among them was the command to keep this day holy-set apart. The en- dorcement of the command among the Israelites was vigorously observed, no att