Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1920-04-15
THE SABBATH AND
IT'S IMPROVEMENTS

The solemn law of the Most High
does not appear to have been introduc-
ed at this time as a new law, but as
law referring to subject with which
the Israelites were well acquainted.
Remember the Sabbath day" This
phraesology implies that they were ac-
quainted with the day and with the
law which they were now solemnly
commanded to keep or regard. With
respect to the change of the Sabbath
from the seventh day of the week to
the first it may be observed that the
Lord Jesus Christ was Lord of the
Sabbath and consequently possessed
authority to alter the day on which the
Sabbath is to be observed. The son Of
man is Lord even of the Sabbath day
and the scriptures lead US to believe
that His divinity inspired apostles did
make such alteration. The first day
OF the week was the day on which the
Lord Jesus Christ after his resurrec-
ton repeatedly appeared to his disci-
pies. It was the day on which the
Gospel was first preached with the
Holy Ghost sent down from heaven,
and on which several thousand were
converted and wide foundation laid
for the Christian church and when the
day of Pentecost was fully come they
were all with one accord in one place
and they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost and the day there were added
unto them three thousand souls. This
fact is peculiarly remarkable. If the
Most High had designed the seventh
1 day to be continued as the day for
! public worship can it with any
reason be supposed that the abundant
efusion of the Holy Spirit which quail
/ flied the apostles to preach for the
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/ Should it have been made on the first
day of the week? And that the first
day of the week should have been the
day honored by the first preaching of
the gospel and by the conversion of
thousands Did this procedure of the
Lord God mark out the first day of
the week as the day on which he de-
signed the Gospel of Jesus to be
preached extensively and success
! fully?
y When the Christian revelation as
sumed it's full and final from the Sab
bath with its worship became again
the embodiment of the essential ele-
ment as given anew. 1t still held all
the old truth concerning God, the
Creator, and covenant keeper, while
by its change from the seventh day
of the week to the first day, it hence
forth became memorial of that event
in the religious history of the world
and by its special ordinances of pray
er, praise and communion, embodied in
practical form, the essential truths Of
the complete Christian revelation. 1t
thus becomes apparent that the Chris
tian Sabbath is the greatest bulwark
of Christianity, so that the Christian
cannot duly observe it and yet make a
failure in mission. Scientific obser-
walton and general experience of men
have convinced the most profound and
careful thinker that though rest be
provided for by the Sabbath is a neces-
= sity of mans constitution, physical
and mental; of the constitution OF
! beast subject to man; and to some ex-
tent even of the inanimate objects
and agents under his control, it is, a
well ascertaned fact that both he body
and mind require intervals of relaxa-
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