The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-02-11
SABBATH IN THE
ETERNAL WORLD

The foundation was laid AZ Creation
In creation God so wrought as 10 pro.
vide a Sabbath day FOR man. becaus,
the works OF creation were TO be re.
membcred. Pisa. CXI-4. The Sabbath
was TO serve as memorial that
would honor God the Creator and bless
man the creature Gen. ll-l TO 4
What He did was done in truth and
uprightness, and il was done so as "a
stand fast forever and ever. Even the
days Of eternity can not unmake il
Verses rs, 3 Of Psalms chi The
foundations Of the Sabbath we're laid
deep down in truth, which can never
change nor be moved. Examine the
rock upon which IL stands, Thus the
heavens and the earth were finished
and all the host Of them, and on the
seventh day God ended His work
which He had made, and God blessed
the seventh day and sanctifed il; be-
cause that in it He had rested from all
His work which God created and made.
These are the generations of the heav-
ems and Of the earth when they were
created. Gen. Ill to 4. In laying the
foundation of the earth, God was lay
ing the foundation of the Sabbath.
just one week was occupied In erea-
ton, and the last day of the week was
made the rest day, and this was bless
ed and set apart TO be the Sabbath.
(Some claim each day was a longer
period of time than just the light and
the dark, but the word says: Gen. J.
Ia to 20--and God said, Let there be
lights in the armament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night,
tmargin) between the day and night;
and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days and years. And
let them be for lights in the frma-
ment Of the heaven to give light upon
the earth; and it was So And God
made two great lights; the greater
light (the SUM to rule the day. and the
esser light 1.-THE noon to rule the
nights. He made the stars also, and
5od set them in the armament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth |
And to rule over the day and over the
light, and TO divide the light from the |
darkness, and God saw that it was
rood. And the evening, dark and |
he morning, (the light were the
ourth day, so these days are shown T
o be the dark and light Of our days
oday "a hours, evening at sunset. God
aid we should reckon from that, that
% one without a time-piece could err.
,ev. XXIll-32 (margin). Exodus Xxx.
how which day is the Sabbath. From
,den the Sabbath is traced through
he ages, but wavering men have con-
rary to the divine order Of things. It
; therefore evident that Gods purpose
or man and the order Of things as set
Drth in the Sabbath law, must yet be
UTILIZED on the earth when the Edenic
rider Of things is restored. He shall
OF fail not be discouraged, till He
as set judgment in the earth. lisa
LID. And the Prophet says: The
sles shall wait for His law. lisa XIII
For a law shall proceed from me,
nd will make my judgment to rest
Or light of the people. lisa. La.
IS Noah finished his warning mes {
age, so a time comes when the world
as been warned of Christ's second
dvent, and the attention of the whole
ord called to the fragrant sin of set
ng aside Gods holy law to evade the
eeping of Christ's Sabbath-the sew ,
nth day. As Noah's message ceased, t
, this must soon cease, and the work (
2 finished. John XVII-4, John TV-34. '
adv. r