The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-01-04
Replies TO Americas.
the Editor. The Washington Herald:

L" the Editor, The Washington Herald:
In your excellent paper of Decem-
Der %, "Americus" tries to prove
that the first day of the week was
Instituted as the Sabbath day be-
fore the Children of Israel came
to Sinai, and that il took pre-
cedence over the seventh day OF
the week as the Sabbath. He
bases his logic on the fact that
the mama began to fall on the
first day of the week and there
fore the first day of the week takes
precedence to the seventh day of
the week on which it did not fall,
but IL his logic is sound. then each
of the six days of the week ought
to take precedence to the seventh
Gay because IL fell equally on each
day of the week except the sixth
day when double portion of
mama fell to supply the needs of
the people for the seventh day-the
Sabbath of the Lord.
The Mohammedan claims that the
sixth day is the proper day TO
observe as the Sabbath, and he
might point, with some show OF
logic. to sustain his contention, to
the fact that a double portion fell
on the sixth day. Friday, whereas
only single days portion fell upon
the other five days of the week:
but anyone who reads the sixteenth
chapter of Exodus can clearly see
that God intended to impress upon
the Children of Israel the Sanctity
of the seventh day OF the week by
Withholding the mama on that day,
and yet preserving a portion Of
that which fell Sf VII
A miracle was wrought in this
transaction because the mamma
spoiled on every other day of the
week when held over, but did not
spoil on the Sabbath day-the
seventh day of the week. For forty
years. God wrought this miracle of
causing a double portion of mama
to fall on the sixth day of the week
and preserving ii on the Sabbath
day for His people.
Three months after the mamma
began to fall, the Lord wrote the
Sabbath commandment into the
very bosom of His eternal law and
in assigning the reason why He
wanted all men to observe the
seventh day instead Of any other
day OF the week. He Alluded to the
fact that He, himself, had rested
on the first seventh day of time
after finishing the works of crea-
ton and the Sabbath was ito be set
up as memorial of His created
works.
In Ezekiel he also tells that the
Sabbath was a sign between Him
and His people. whereby they were
to know that lie was the Lord tna,-
sanctified them. Thus we learn
that the Sabbath not only became
a memorial OF the work of crea-
ton. but OF the work of re-crea-
tion-or the great plan of salvation.
ton.
The Scriptures nowhere set up
the, law as means of salvation,
buts simply as a standard OF right
eousness. There is not dcnomina-
ton today that believes that its
members can be saved by merely
Keeping the law of God, and Ia
is useless to charge anyone with
setting up such a claim, because
il Is not true. IL a person could
be saved by the law, 1t would not
have been necessary for Christ to-
have died to pay the penalty of
mans transgression. All that would
have been necessary in the plan
of salvation would have been to
modify the law in such a way that
man could live up to il, or abolish
IT altogether; hut this was impes-
sible. The law had to be main
tanned intact without the removal
of one jot or little. and yet the
claims of justice had to be satisfied.
Christ alone could satisfy the
claims of the law upon the sinner
and still maintain the claims of
the law while saving the sinner. I
Americas seems to think that the
promises made to the Children of,
Israel do not apply to the Gentiles,
but IL he will read the Nav Testa-