The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1921-01-29

nant, Love, Commands all who are
IN Christ Jesus TO rest i'm full faith
IN the great work finished for us.
by our Mediator, at Calvary. AS
the Apostle declares Being justified
by faith we have peace (resO with
God through Our Lord Jesus Christ"
Thus we enjoy the rest or Sabbath of
our New Covenant. Thus the New
Mediator has provided ky the Tyni.
cal Mediator for the Typical Is
rael. As seven is type OF perfec-
ton, OF completeness, so the Sew
ehth Day rest was type of the
complete or perfect rest which we
have in Christ, which Israel after
The flesh never did and never could
enjoy. The Sabbath or rest under
the New Covenant Is not merely for
day-AlaSl How weary we would
be If we could only rest in Christ
one day in sevenl But we may rest
continually in Christ, every day and
every hour-trusting not to our own
sufficiency, but to His. Thus we
rest from works OF self-r:ghteous-
ness, from all efforts to justify our
selves before God. Accepting the
justification freely offered 10 us
through the precious blood, and
resting in il continually we have
peace with God, rest of heart. We
have committed all our affairs into
His hands, and are resting in Him
keeping a continual Sabbath all the
DAYS of the week and all the weeks
of the year.
As respects physical rest, however
we are under no command respect
ing this so far as the Lord and His
word are concerned, except that our
law OF Love requires that We shall
Glorlfy God in our Bodies and our
Spirits which are His, and hence
that we shall observe such rules
and regulations in our physical
system in relation to our food and
clothing and rest as would be glad
that all might recognize this mat
ter from this standpoint of the New
Covenant, yet we know that none
can view ii ad observe il from this
standpoint except those who have
entered into the New Covenant re-
lationship with God, and those we
know are comparatively few of the
worlds population, although our
hpe is that in Gods due time, the
Milennial Age, all mankind shall be
brought to the knowledge and ap-
preciatio OF this New Covenant and
may then, if they will, enjoy all OF
its provisions, including this rest
Of faith, the anttypical Sabbath
which can be enjoyed only by Gods
faithful people
Meantime. however, The world of
mankind, amongst whom we live,
have through various miSconcep-
tions, both Of the Law Covenant
and the New Covenant, set apart
one day of the week as a Sabbath or
rest day, and as Christians who en-
Joy the real Sabbath Of Rest and
peace in Christ, we are glad TO "a
vail ourselves of the regulations of
whilethe world to abstain from
worldly labor and devote ourselves
to Spiritual works, Spiritual feast
ing and Spiritual upbuilding Of char
acter in Righteousness on that day.
But while recognizing and observ-
ing il carefully, because il is the
law Of the land, and while pleased
10 have this special opportunity for
Christian fellowship and spiritual
fellowship and spiritual co-opera-
lion, we deny into that il is Of Di-
vine obligation. And while we
should observe whatever day might
be appointed by 'the powers that
be" we are especially glad that they
have by common consent adopted
the day which We prefer to all 9th
ers, because il commemorates the
resurrection Of Our Lord and Mas
ter, and hence il commemoates the
beginning OF our rest Of faith in
Him.
RICHARD J. HILL.