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REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP*
IT HOLY.
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it
holy; that is, keep it as a day set apart to
the honour of the holy .God. r
The word Sabbath signifies rest, cessation
from labour or employment. The command
py sanctify the Sabbath was given at the
creation, and only reiterated at the giving
of the Jaw two thousand yeafs afterwards.
The divnjftHna of tidfef intoperiods lof seven
days, Beetnstb have been universafamong an
cient nations, Egyptians, Arabians, G reeks,
Romans, and even our American Indians.
A practice so universahfnuet have had a
common origin. It is mentioned in the
account of the deluge. Gen. vii 10: After
seven days the waters o£ tho flood were
upon the earth. Gen. viii. 10 : “ And he
stayed yet other seven days; and again he
. sent forth the dove out of the ark.”
The Sabbath was known and observed by
the Israelites before the law was given at
Mount Sinai; that was in the month
after the departure out of Egypt. And if
you turn to Ex. xvj. 22, you will fintt that
tho people gathered manna on the sixth day
of the Week sufficient to last them till the
s&bbath was over. Thus wo have» every
reason tp believe that the Sabbath was ob
served from the creation.
<l Ye shall Veep my Sabbaths and rever
ence ray sanctuary: lam the Lord.” On
tho. seventh day there shall be unto you a
holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord.”
“ Whosoever doeth any work on tho Sabbath
day ho shall surely be put to death.” It
was made very clear to tho Jews that their
great Law-giver would tolerate no broach
of this command. A man was found
caing sticks on the holy day. He was
brought up for judgmeut. Moses inquired
of the Lord what should be done with him.
The answer was that he should be stoned to
death; which sentencowas carried into exe
cution immediately. They took him with
out, or beyondt the camp, and put him to
death. Why, ■some might say, he was doing
very little harm. lie had only forgotten to
fjrcpare fuel the day before. It seemed
ike a work of necessity, and he should havo
been forgiven for that time. suppose
God had forgiven him that time; the conse
quence woud probably have been that the
next Sabbath somebody else would have
been out picking up sticks, and then many
more; and in a little time the law would
have been entirely disregarded. Hut by
visiting the first transgression with such a
Bevere penalty, all the rest were alarmod,
and the law was respeoted.
Buk those Israelites had just emerged
from a state of abject slavery in tho land of
Egypt. They were degraded, as all slaves
are; they had to be educated, trained into
tho fear and love ,of their great King and
Law-giver, the God of their fathers; and
how little they knew of him; and to us
how dull and stupid do they appear. How
alow they were to learn; so much so that
we are amazed when we read the record of
their baekslidings and the meroies they re
ceived from the hand of God. The nation
grow more enlightened. We find as the
history progresses, terrible experiences of
terrible judgments were theirs, until they
were finally carried away captives by the
kin& of Babylon. Through all the denun
ciations that were poured out by their
prophets, in all these years, you will find
that the sin of Sabbath desecration was
foremost in the dark list of national sins
that provoked the Divine displeasure.
Now, dear children, let us consider. The
Sabbath was instituted at the creation, but
in the moral darkness that shrouded the
world for two thousand years it was almost
forgotten. God then reiterated the com
THE ELBERTON* GAZETTE.
maud, placing it nearly in the middle of the
decalogue, with the emphatic, “ Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” Nearly
threerthousand years have rolled over the
world since that time. If the ignorant, un
enlightened Jew of that dark age was so
severely punished for breaking this com
mand, what must our guilt be in the sight
of tho God of the Sabbath ? How much
more light have we in these last ages, and
how much greater are our obligations to
keep all God’s laws. Could we now inquire
of God, as Moses did, what answer think
you we would get ? This man who suffered
death for breaking the command was a poor
bondman who had been emancipated only
a little while before, while you, dear chil
dren, have all the light he had, and in*ad
dition, all the increased light of three thous
and years. Sabbath-breaking is a greater
sin now than it was then, though our na
tion does not punish it as the Jews did.
The Sabbath-breaker is a rebel; he resists
the authority of the great Jehovah. The
Sabbath-breaker is a robber; he steals sacred
time and employs it for profane purposes.
The Sabbath-breaker in an enemy of God
and of all he is the murderer of
his own soul, for he tramples under his feet
the means of intercourse with God, and of
all spiritual improvement. He is in league
with Satan, for Satan seems to have set
apart this day of all others, for his strongest
efforts against the kingdom of Christ.
Shun then the Sabbath-breaker. And rest
assured that if you take no delight in the
holy duties of the Sabbath on earth, you are
not prepared for tho full enjoyment of an
eternal Sabbath in heaven.
God is tho same God now that he was
when he commanded the stick-gatherer
to be put to death, and his law is the same
as it was then. Although we have no
law on our statute books that authorizes us
to put Sabbath-breakers to death, rest as
sured whoever you are that violates this iaw,
God will not suffer you to escape his right
eous judgment.
Every violation of this law is written
down in God's book of remembrance, and
lias either to be repented of, or suffered for.
God is long suffering in his patience, and
because he does not execute his judgments
at once, men think he forgets hie) threats,
or that he is too merciful to execute them.
No other sin except idolatry .was. ever more
severely punished than Sabbath
If we could ascertain the facts, I have no
doubt, we would find more failures in busi
ness and more of the disappoinments in life
could be traced to the violation of this law
than any other. Judge Hale, of England,
said he never laid any plan ou the Sabbath
that God did not frustrate. Beware of rob
bing God of the time which he claims for
his services. •
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