Arizona republican., 1919-05-12
INSTITUTIONS IF THE SABBATH
 EVANGELIST RADSDALE'S THEME

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them And o ntheseventh day God ended his work which He had made; and He rested on on the seventh day God ended his work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it; be- cause that in it He had rested from all His work which He had created and made" ((Gen. 2:1-3). This was the text used by Evangelist L. B. Ragsdale in his remarks on the Institution of the Sabbath" at the Gospel Tent last night corner Fifth avenue and Fillmore street.
 MT. Ragsdale continued: From this scripture we see that at the close of the creation week, God ended His work and rested. He did this on the seventh day, and herewith blessed and sanc- tified the Sabbath. By sanctifying it, we understand that He made it sacred and holy, setting it apart for @ holy purpose. This day was given to man kind for definite and speciaIpurpose, that on that day throughout the fol- lowing generations. humanity might remember and commemorate the mighty creative work of God Jesus himself said: The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath Mark 2:27.) Like the marriage rela,- ton, it was ordained for the whole of t tho human race.
 Evidence of this is given in the As- syrian account of creation, which is be- heyed to antedate Moses by nearly 60t years; mention is made of a day of rest; again, in ancient Babylonia, ii has been discovered that a Sabbath mi nil V O h. served. Some one has said: Not to g single race but to man; not to mar alone, but to the whole creation; moi 10 created things alone, but to tht Creator himself came the benedictioT of the first Sabbath. Its significance extends beyond the narrow limits O. Judaism to all races. It is a law spolxer not simply through the hwgiver to ( chosen people, but declared in the pres ence of the sons of God and of d fin jshed heaven and earth The statemen made in Genesis 2:1-3 is but the foun dalton of the Savior's declaration il Mark 2:27, The Sabbath was made fo man. signifying universal claim, no on the Jewish people alone, but on al humanity.
 When God called His chosen peopl out of Egyptian bondage and led then ny LhC Aduu lulO tue lanQ His desire for them was that they re member His wonderful work of crea uon. So the law which had bee handed down from Adam to Enoel from Enoch to MethusaIeh. from Me thuselah to Noah from Noah to Shen from Shem to Abraham, was now to h written by the God of the univers himself on tables of stone. Upon
 rested the Jurisprudence of the theoc facy of Israel
 Right in the bosom of the law is be found the Sabbath commandment As from Sabbath to Sabbath the pee pie gathered to worship before Jehc yah, their minds were to be reverted the God who created the heavens an the earth and rested on the sevent day. Such an observance would safe guard them from the idolatrv so preyz lent about them.
 Had the Sabbath been universal observed by the sons of Adam and |, Y Noah, there could never have been a idol worshipper. That the Sahbat was definite day of A hours proved by the experiences of the chi dren of Israel a month before the came to Sinai. They had a. knovleda of the law of God, for He was to uroI them, whether they would walk in H law or not Exodus 16:4) In the il stance of the mama, we have tn