The Washington herald., 1921-08-18
Reviews Sabbath Question.


Recently in an article signed by
one Butler Jack. | was accused of
max ing some misstatements. Refer
eHCG to my article of May will dis
close this statement of mine: The
only way to get out of keeping the
same Sabbath day that Christ and
His disciples kept-the seventh day
OF the week. our Saturday-is To
abolish the law" He says we are
no longer to keep the day that
! Christ kept because the believer
was to turn his back on the law
when it turned him over to Christ"
There is no LOGIC in this. for il the
Savior abolished the Ten Command
1ents. He abolished the one that
says. Thou shalt not kill" just as
! much as the one that says "Eemem-
| her the Sabbath day to keep il
holy" Is anyone willing to admit
that the former is done away with
| Moreover. il the latter command is
! abolished. then there is no COM
mand anywhere in the Bible to keep
any day holy. Therefore. lacking
the COMM nd. we arc not duty
bound to do so, as EcCIes. 12:l3
says. Fear God and keep his com
mandments. for this is the whole
Guty OF man.
Christ. Himself in Matt 24:2O
commanded His followers I" con-
t:nue in prayerful regard for the
sabbath nearly forty years after the
resurrection. Then how could He
Rave abolished il or changed il i'm
mCdiat"ly after the resurrection
He also said: Think not that
am come to destroy the law
till heaven and earth pass away on"
jot or one title shall in no wise
pass from the Ian till all thingsJ
be fulfilled" This statement is in
ltCrpreted by the great Majority OF
Cnristian denominations to mean
that the moral law Of Moses-thr
| Decaloguc-is both perpetual and
binding today.
| The writer, in declaring my stat
ments false. says that Paul. the
great apostle to the Gentilcs, com
ma nded the churches at Corinth and
Galatia to meet on :'every" first day
/ of the week. He also says that he
| CPauD made it u rule to meet with
| the Gentiles on the first day of
! every week.
| As a matter of fact. Paul men
! tions the first day of the week but
once in all the Bible. in | Cnrin-
thians. 49,. Here he says. Upon
the first day of the week let every
one of you lay by him in store. etc.
This is no command I" keep the
! first day as the Sabbath. He was
! talking about a special collection
! for needy saints at Jerusalem. Be
sides. how can this scripture cnJoin
d public contribution. when the
words by him are from the Greek
I par he auto" and are defined by
such Greek scholars as Greenfield
and LiddcH and Scott to mean 'h!
ones self. c. 1T home and at
ones home or house.. No sacred
title is ever given by Paul or any
other Bible writer to the first dav
of the week which is mentioned
only eight times in the entire New
| Testament.
The writer also says that am
! far wrong in holding on to the law
of Moses, because, he SAYS. the Gen
! tiles were exempted from this law
I in 81 4. D." If this be true, l'aul
didn't know it: for when he wrote
to the Romans. in 60 \. D., he
said, DO we. then make void the
law through faith? God forbid. Yea,
we establish the law. Again ne
says. in Romans -: Il had not
| known sin but by the law; for
| had not known lust unless the law
had said Thou Shalt not cOHet.' He
makes il plain that the Ten Com
| mandment law is what he means.
He says, too, in Rom. 500. BY the
law is the knowledge of sin. now
if the Gentiles were exempted In
Al A. D., then every GENTLE since
that time has not needed the Cos
pei to save him from sin, because,
according to ] John. 3:4, Sin Is
the transgression of the law. There
fore, IL the law was abolished. he
could not sin; for ''Sin Is not I'M
puted when there is no law. He
says also that Paul did not en-
courage any. GENTLE Christians TO
observe the Sabbath of Moses. any
more than he would allow them to
be circumcised." Paul taught that
the ceremonial law. of which cir
cumcision was part and which
law was written by Moses with his
own hand and placed in the side
of the Ark. was mailed to the
cross" but he never taught that
the moral law. of which the Sab
bath is a part and which was writ
ten by the finger of God ON imper-
I-ishahie stone. was so treated. III
he did he not only contradicted
himself. but also taught a doctrine
which james never heard of: for
IN Chap .. verse 10. he does more
than encourage US to keep the law.
when be says. Whosoeyer shall