The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-09
this is thu law Of

covenant is free. Hence this is thu law of
liberty"
The first covenant dealt only with the out
ward act. The second deals with tho heart.
lcherishng thoughts OF hatred which might lead
10 murder The Irst fnrbids adultery: the sec
ond forbids me impure thought ina. hsot tne
by the actual deeds the second is broken by
the thoughts and intents Of the mind. The first
could not be of universal application; to keep 1t
there could be fires builded in their homes.
and 1t must be observed strictly by their
servants as by themselves. There must man.
ner of work be done. This could not be uni
versaly observed in all climates and under oil
conditions. Stock could not be fed or watered
or housed from the storm Fires could
not be subdued foods checked. for who
soever did any manner of work should be put
Ito DEATH"
| But under the gospel covenant It is not so,
for .he gospel to go into all the world.
unto all nations and into all climates; and coo
in his love and mercy did not bring over fny'
his new covenant law that could not be uni
versaliy obeyed, ard whose penalty for break
ing was death. Gods justice forbids such a
thought. -
! But" say our Adventist friends, Christ did
not come to destroy the law, but - fulnli H.
True; and he did fulfill every jot and little OF
1t. else he had not been without spot or blemish.
But when a contract has been fulfilled 1t is no
longer in force. He fulfilled all the require
ments OF the old covenant, and gave ms peopie
the new, which was not according to the one
given to their fathers" and the old fulfilled
covenant he plotted OUT and nailed 1t to the
cross Paul saws (Col 2: IA; Eph. Q: 15). But
that is only the ceremonial law, says the 40
ventst. Let US see. PLOTTING out the nano,
writing of ordinances that were against us,
etc. The Ten Commandments were the hand
writing of ordinances. And again: HAVING
abolished in his flesh the enmity even tne Jaw
of comma ndments contained In ordinances
ttEph. 2: 15). Surely the commandments con-
tanned in the ordinances were the Ten Com
mandments.
tain period of time and since that Sabbath law
was given a memorial of the children OF
"therefore, for that reason the Lord thy God
Icommandeth thee to keep the Sabbath. 1t Is not
binding in the covenant, except it is brought
over from the old into the new. and we see the
ISabbath law was not brought over.
Nehemiah tells that God made known his
Isabbaths by Moses; they knew nothing Of
n before then.
But our Adventist friends say "sin is the
Itransgression of the law" and there was never
any other law given: the only way man can
sin is to break one of the Ten Commandments.
Let us see Adam sinned and the Ten Com
mandments had not been given he had one
mandment, and he broke that and this
was not of the ten either-3ust a command
not to eat the fruit of certain tree
Jonah sinned by running away from the work
God told him to do. but that was not breaking
one OF the Ten Commandments Sin lis the
; transgresson of any law God gives as well az
Iomtssion of duty.
Sin originally meant missing the mark; in
the old Anglo-saxon form. SWINE" In their
archery contests, when one failed to hit the
| mark I'VE have synned,' the cry of the
onlookers. Christ sets higher mark In
| the new covenant than the mere outward ODE
dience to law, and all sin who fail to reach It.
) Hence all have snned and come short of the
glory OF God. and all will need the pardonins
grace of Christ.
S word nowhere says Saturday nor Sunday There
Y lean be no positive proof that either day Is the
seventh day continuously from creation down
Besides. according to the Bible. it was not the
8 seventh day continuously that was To be kept
e but the seventh day from the beginning OF eac sh
year. The scar began with the month Abio
They were to keep the seventh day counting
+ from the beginning of this month
o Now let us do a little reasoning together
r There are se5 days in the year. and hfty-twt
n weeks of seven days each gives 3s4 days ane
one extra day. Now year OF $50 DAYS WI
o end on same day OF week that began on. ant
T will begin the following day. thus: The yea
begins on Sunday and IL will close on SUNDAY
and the next year will begin on Monday, ans
: SO on So keeping the seventh day from .n'
t beginning of the year would cause IN the cours
q of years each day OF the week 10 pc Aep
n as holy there no leap year bue once ~
8 four years there is leap year. as we count tim
s now which brings the new year two Day
= ahead In the week The extra day appear
$ to have been kent holy too. so they had Ion,
n Sabbath at the end of the year and the workin'
= DAYS began again with the new year. ana IN
regardless of place in the week. the days o
l. the week not having been named until man,
t centuries after. and not by tho command o
It so their Sabbath days and feast days did no
fan on certain named days Of the week. out o.
;, the numbered days beginning with the mont
u Abb. sa -
the Homans Had II been OF such Vital I'm
e, portance that the day called Saturday snoui
+ he kept holy, how strange that neither Cn1ls
b. nor his apostles commanded 1t! we mn
rs them reiterating and adopting every one OF Tn
e other comman dments and really enlargins them
land PAUL who was taught by revelation VIVA
J. cod required said: Il have Stunned not
lie declare unto you the whole council OF Coo
Is IT have kept back nothing that was proftaol
is for Won" And he says nothing about our Keep
T. ing SATURDAY. for the Sabbath Instead ne says
n II ct no man Judge you concerning the Sapoa.
n day or the new MOON" etc. The one was
W binding on the Jew the other Ana again
1t ave observe days. and months and times. an
seasons; I am afraid for you"--afraid they wer
e. not vet free from the yoke OF bondage.
a I could give many more proofs from the scr1r
% Itures that we are not under that ola Saopat
lie law but will only notice one or TWO more
E. paul saws: THE priesthood being changee
at there Is made of necessity change OF the law
h Why the necessity? To suit the changed cor
,e dtions to give a law that could be OF univei
lis sal anplcation regardless of climate or an
other natural condition. This priesthood "ois
It. annu1led the commandment going before. e
the weakness and appropriateness thereof e1e
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