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are depending on the blue laws on the
ground of scriptural requirements
should get out their Bibles and STUDY
them, and they will soon see their
practice does not square with their
Bible.
The Christian teaching does not
recognize a Holy Sabbath separate
and apart from the six other days ana
this theory along with the He'll nre
theory and many other God dishonor-
Ing things of the past, are gone for
ever.
In the light Of Christian teachings,
every day and every moment Is sacred
The Apostle Paul plainly says: Eo-
tenn not ono day more holy IMAM an
other"
The old Jewish law. however: In
force up to Christ's day did teach 9
Holy Sabbath. Under the law which
was strictly enforced. II person or
accountable age was caught even
picking up a few sticks on the Sab
bath to build a fire. they were stoned
to death.
How many Of the people who advo-
cate Holy Sabbath could be alive II
the penalty attached to these Obsolete
blue laws were applied to them?
I'll venture that both Governor
I
have died the first week.
| am not saying this out OF malice.
for I know Henry Maekey well and
| love him dearly, and I also give all
other blue law advocates credit for
being honest and sincere, but I insist
they are deceived by false teachers
of the past. My conception OF Chris
tan teaching differs from theirs.
! The blue law fellows, you Will re-
VII tn ri because
he healed man on the Sabbath.
Christ told them It was lawful even
under the old law to do good on the
| Sabbath. He also told them that 1t
was also unlawful to do anything but
good from thenceforth, on the Sab
bath. or any other day.
! He gave them new law whereby
they could then tell good from bad.
the lawful from the unlawful. and he
told them this new law was not to be
: written on tables OF stone as the law
. of Moses had been. but would be writ
ten in their hearts by the great law
Of love- as expressed in the Golden
Rule.
i Under the old law, 1t was customary
when a man became tired Of his wife,
to give her a writing of enforcement
and he was then free to pick him an
other. Under the law OF love there
is no power in heaven or hell
church or state. that can annul sac
red marriage except breach OF the
marriage vow.
Whoever of the two, be 1t the man
or the woman, breaks the marriage
vow, gives the other the right to can
eel the marriage because they have
broken loves law" This principle
not only applies to the marriage state.
but to every other human relation OF
life Whoever breaks the holy law of
, love thereby automatically separates
himself from God and man. There
can be no fellowship where no love
exists, therefore we are living not un-
der the letter of the law, but under
the spirit thereof.
! The Apostle Paul puts It this way:
THE law of the spirit of life in
Christ Jesus has made us free from
the law or sin and death" Whatever
therefore we do that is not prompted
by the spirit Of love. IS against the
! law, and it Is likewise impossible to
bleak the law when the heart is filled
with love-
The Apostle Paul who was filled
with love for mankind declares: "All
things are lawful for me to do, but
all things are not expedient," meaning
thereby that all things that expedite
the growth Of love in men are lawful
and holy.
Apply this principle OF promoting
the law OF love in the hearts and
lives Of men to the action of the blue
law. Advocate and you realize at
once that such action is a breach of
loves law, as love constrains but does
not force. Such a person Is the real
desecrator, in not applying to their
action the holy law of love.
Furthermore under the present COM
pick conditions of life in the world
which have developed since Christ's
day and which he foresaw would
come, the application Of this old law
of letters actually restraints at times
the good deeds of others who prefer to
live under the higher law of love.
Many, many instances could be named
where this is a fact, but the one in
stance Of the work of the Army and
Navy Club is sufficient
Have you ever been forced to stay
for months away from friends and
loved ones, a stranger in a strange
land? Did you ever from such a stu
alton become so homesick that life
was hardly worth living?
I have and know what a bad case
Of Inconsistencies means. Once in my
arid west alongside a sluggish, muddy
stream with nothing but the bleak
mesa on the sides. no grass and no
trees and everything in nature Seem
ingly dead around me. How longed
for good old southern downpour of
rain. The sight of a long leaf yellow
pine tree with dropping boughs, or a
glimpse Of our grand old Gulf of
Mexico. How I yearned for the re-
pose of soul I knew was waiting for
me in a vine covered cottage in
| Dixie"
These had been my environment
since childhood and I longed for the
scenes of my boyhood. just as the