The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-07
SABBATH MADE f0R ull
/ SAYS EVANGELIST StRhS
"And Not Man For the Sabbath
Lecture on Fourth Com
mandmcnt.

THE Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath" as
serted Evangelist Serns last night.
The big Bible Institute Tent has been
ing the Sunday night lectures. Re-
quests for repeating the lectures given
have been received from various parts
of the city. Last nights lecture dealt
with the origin of the Sabbath, and
gave the reason why the large part
of the Christian world Is today keep
ing the first day of the week instead
commandment. In part he said:
THE Sabbath Is primarily a fact.
as much a product of Gods creative
acts as the armament and the con-
stellations. The record says, ON the
seventh day, God ended His work
which He had made On the sixth
day. God made man, and placed him
in a garden eastward in Eden. On
the next day, God made the Sabbath.
and put 1t into the seventh day. for
ever making the seventh day the
Sabbath of the Lord. The Sabbath Is
not a movable institution; 1t is the
birthday of this world Not until the
end OF the working cycle did the
earth come completely forth from
the Creators hand In the bloom of
perfection"
ne eVdHkctlSK COntinueu. JSSuH
! Christ declared the perpetuity of the
Sabbath day when He said. 1t is
! easier for heaven and earth to pass
away than for one jot or little of the
| law to fall.' AS long as the sun con-
( tinues to shine, the seventh day will
be celebrated as this worlds birth
day--a time of holy convocation and
rest, and worship. While the fourth
commandment of the immortal ten
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bath of the Lord thy God practically
the whole of Christendom is found
keeping the first day Of the week. Our
calendar shows that the seventh day
Is the last of the week. The Chris
tian world acknowledges Good Friday
as the day Of the Crucihxion, and
Easter Sunday as the day of the re-
surrection, thereby tacitly admitting
that the day coming between Good
Friday and Easter Sunday Is the
| seventh day of the week. the Sabbath
of Jehovah.
"Since Christ declared so empha-
tically He did not come TO ahrognte
the law. we must look elsewhere for
the substitution of the first day for
the seventh. The only others who
might have done this are the Apostles
and the church. But" declared the
evangelist, there Is no positive COM
mand for Observing Sunday sacrediy
In the New Testament. On the other
hand. the physician /. Luke, in
chronicling the Acts Of the Apostles,
says. And Paul. az his manner was
went in unto them. and three Sab
bath days reasoned out OF the Scrip
! lures
Many eminent authorities today
agrees that there is no divine COM
/ mand for the religious observance
OF Sunday. DIR. Binney says. 1t is
true. there Is no positive command
for infant baptism, nor is there any
for keeping holy the first day ~ the
week. On. e, Theological Compend,
| p. 400 Rev. E. T. Hiscox, D. d.
author of Baptist Church Directory.
says, There Is no Scriptural evidence
| of the change of the Sabbath fnsti-
first day OF the week DR.. Martin
Luther teaches In his doctrinal
catechism English translation, p. 44)
that there Is No divine command for
celebrating Sunday Alexander
Campbell in commenting on the
changed Sabbath says, No IL never
was changed. 1t Is old wives fables
| from the seventh to the first day
! t''The Christian Baptism" p. 40.
| ION March Z, 32f A. D., Con-
stantine. the Roman Emperor. made
the first Sunday law which reads
Let all the judges and the people of
/ the towns rest, and ali the various
trades be suspended on the venerable
| day of the sum- This law simply
required the abstinence from labor
on that day, nothing religious about
| it. Constantine was a sun-wcrship-
per at the time this law was made.
He refused to unto with the church
until upon his death bed. s37 a. ID.
| The festival of Sunday says the
great church historian. DR.. Neander.
| like all other festivals was always
| only human ordnance The
| Catholic Mirror" September, 20,
! 1898, says The Catholic Church for
over 1000 years before the existence
of a Protestant, by virtue OF her
| divine mission. changed the day from
Saturday to Sunday"
! In colclusion. the evangelist ap-
| pealed. The call OF God is-Back to
| the old paths Back to the first
| principles, Back to the Biblei Back
1 to the seventh day Sabbath"
/ Tonight Evangelist Serns will LEG
ture on Eight Reasons for Sunday
Observance"
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