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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PO RTLAND. MONDAY. 'AUGUST 28, 1918. .
jTAXROLL OF KLAMATH
COUNTY SHOWS LARGE
: 'INCREASEDURINGYEAR
, More Than Million and WIff Do!-
lars Is Added to Assessed Val-;
:t nation Over Returns of 1917. ;
" Klamath Falls, Or., Aug. 26. A total
Jtaxroll of 116,825,267, exclusive of th
TUbllo service utilities, in Klamath coun-J-ty
for the year 1911. haa been announced
by County AaaeMaor J. P. Lee. He aaya
f that thla la an Increase of approximately
1 10 per cent over lait year. The exact
increase over last year's figure la
l.C6a,I6.
The greatest Increase noticed la in
.-that Hem of personal . property, which
haa been raised $101,583, or nearly one
-third. Thla ia aald to be due to the
itiew Industries launched, Increased mer
chandise stocks 'In stores, and property
of newcomer. It Indicates high pro
gressive development during; the last 13
months.
An increase of $550,100. is shown in the
value of farm lands, thought to be due
"Jargely to rural development of differ
ent kinds, principally the bringing of
additional landa under Irrigation. Eighty
public land entries made through the
Lakevlew, Or., land offce, covering
Klamath county lands, are included as
part of this development.
An Increase of $201,998 Is shown on
Indian landa In' the county, caused, for
the most part by Indians, on Klamath
reservation being declared citizens by
the government and given patents In fee
to their tribal lands.
The public service commission assess
ment have not yet Deen received, but
this Item usually runs between 11,000,000
and $1.125,000. , An assessment of but
11.174.636 Is needed to bring the year's
total to a round $18,000,000. It Is Assess
or Lee's intention to make, a visit to
the public service commission in the near
future, with a view to having this
amount raised. The assessor is working
now toward getting the tax levy as near
ly on a cash basis as Is possible.
. The county board of equalization, con
sisting of County Judge Kobert H. Bun
nell. Assessor Lee and County Clerk C.
R. De Lap, will convene early In Sep
tember to hear any complaints regarding
ver-assessment, from taxpayers or oth
ers Interested.
Indian Drinks Patent
' Medicine; Beats Wife
The Dalles, Or.. Aug. 26. Drinking
patent medicines apparently gives Peter
Jackson, an Indian, an ugly disposition.
He pleaded guilty to an assault on his
squaw wife, following arrest. He was
fined $50 or 25 daya in jail. He is serv
ing out his sentence. Both of the In
dians have caused trouble before through
their Indulgence In alcoholic medicines.
Polk County Boy
Killed in France;
Dallas Boy Hurt
Dallas, Or., Aug. 26. An official tele
gram received at . Balls ton Saturday
brought information that Andrew Ottln
ger, formerly of that town, had been
killed In action in France. Toung Ot
tinger, who was a brother of Mrs. Henry
Savery. wife of a farmer living north
of Dallas, was originally a member of
Company A, 162d infantry, and enlisted
at McMlnnville. He waa later trans
ferred to another unit.
The first Dallas boy to be listed In
the losses in the American army in
France Is Robert Muscott, son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. E. Muscott. His mother
received a letter from him Eaturdray
stating that he was in a base hospital,
having been wounded In the foot by a
piece of shell In the battle on the Marne
on July 24. Muscott was a former mem
ber of Company L, 162d infantry, from
this city, but bad been transferred re
cently to tha Twenty-eighth infantry,
Astoria Turns Out
Sphagnum Moss Pads
Astoria. Or., Aug. 2. The local chap
ter of the Red Cross finished, during
the month from July 20 to August 20,
800 8x12 Inch sphagnum moss pads, 2594
12x24 inch moss pads, 98 bed jackets,
nine suits ,of pajamas, 12 bathrobes, 68
bed shirts, 170 helpless case shirts, 49
reversible bed jackets, 39 sweaters, 195
pairs of -socks, four pairs of wristlets,
five mufflers and 65 comfort kits.
The chapter haa just received a call
for 275 house gowns for French women,
which must be completed by October, and
is also turning out a quota of 25 com
fort kits for the marine corps.
Sphagnum moss drives are held every
few days, for the bogs near Astoria
furnish an unlimited quantity of this
Important article and hundreds of sacks
of It have been turned into the local
Red Cross rooms.
Injured Man Dies ,
On Way to Hospital
While on the way to the Good Samari
tan hospital In Portland from Hood
River, George Letch, 32 years old, died
on the train before it reached its desti
nation. The man had received a frac
tured skull in an accident, which oc
curred last week at a lumber mill near
Hood River. Letch was bornr in a
small province near Germany.
Cries of Boy Are Fire Alarm
Fire started Saturday night at the
Great Northern hotel, 510 North Twenty
first street, from an oil lamp which ex
ploded in one of the rooms. The cries
of a small boy who was left alone In the
room attracted the attention of other
'residents of the hotel and the fire de
partment waa notified.
PLAN TO SAFEGUARD
MERCHANTS
AGAIN
POSTWAR LOSS URGED
Suggestion Made to Place Part
of Excess Profits Tax in
Guarantee Fund.
Merchants who pay an excess profits
tax as a result of Increased repurchase
value of goods. In stock, are entitled to
protection agXinst losses after the war
when prices descend to normal, the Port
land Chamber of Commerce believes, and
a plan of safeguarding business men in
the readjustment period has been set
forth.
The, .plan is to take a certain per
centage of the excess profits taxes, 20
per cent for instance, and put them into
a reserve fund. When the war is ended,
if prices drop, merchants whose profits
run less than 10 per cent would be paid
from this fund to bring their profits
up to that mark. After a certain period
of from three to five years any remain
ing money would be turned over to the
government, and if the fund ran out
before the end of the period the re
sponsibility of the government would
end.
Thla, reserve fund would be Invested
in government bonds, bearing no inter
est. In this way the government would
have use of the money to carry on the
war, the chamber points out, while
, merchants would be protected against
a possible business debacle.
The Chamber of Commerce voted In
favor of the excess profits tkx in the
referendum vote of United States Cham
ber of Commerce, but asks that this pro
vision be made in levying the tax.
One 'Comrade' Sorry
He Couldn Attend
Great Encampment
One little honorary "comrade" was ill
on an Arizona desert and couldn't come
to the Grand Army encampment this
year, bo he wrote a poem and dedicated
to tlje old soldiers and. sent it along by
his mother. But the mother was held
up in San Francisco, and did not reach
Portland until Friday, when the encamp
ment was over.
The "comrade" is John Huston, aged
11 years, son of Mrs. H. E. Stevens of
St. Paul, Minn. John Huston, at the
age -of ZVi years, gave a speech at the
dedication of the Coliseum at Dalles,
.Tex. He later played the part of Titil
In Maeterlinck's "Bluebird" In all the
leading cities of the country.
He has always been very patriotic
and has had a great affection for the
Grand Army men. One of the remain
ing G. A. R. visitors Is sending back to
"Comrade" Huston by his mother, a
Grand Army medal. . ,
Store Open 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 8 P. M. One City Delivery
Daily. Milwaukie Delivery, Tuesday and Thursday. Telephone, C. O. D, and
Mail Orders Filled. Private"Exchange " Main 1786, Connecting All Departments.
Cigars, Tobaccos
TTebo and Camel rig.
arettes, tOi for 13
CIGARS Owl, Hohll.
ler's Rmokem, Velln-
dan, Km Bachelors
and other standard
brands, 5.
Hiawatha V h e w 1 a g
line Cat, lOe site, I
for 25.
We undersell on all
standard brands of
smoking and chew
Ing. c
Juvu
FIRST, SECOND AND ALDER STS.
Graniteware for
Canning Time
Bine and White Eight
Quart Kettles 80.
Bine and White Ten
Quart Kettle, 91.
Preserving Kettles,
14-quart, 70.
Palls, 19 quart, for
only 85.
Palls, 13 and 14-quart,
for $1.00.
You Cannot Afford to Pay More When You Can Buy Here for Less!
Ho, Boys! Look Here!
. Dandy hats and caps for school have just come
in. You can buy them here for less. Come in
with daddy and let us fit you.
New Wool Sweaters
We show new stocks of pure wool sweaters for
the entire family father, mother, brother, sister.
Our prices will be found to be about one-third
less than you can buy for elsewhere.
Specials for Men
Men's- $1.50 Dress Shirts. 1.15
Men's 75c Neckwear only , .49
Men's 25c Black and Tan Socks. ; 20
Men's 50c Wash Ties only 25
Boys' -nd Girls'
School Shoes
Special Sale This Week
Get the kiddie's ready ' for school this
week. Vou'l find here the lowest prices on
good school shoes.
Girls' Box Call. Button Shoes, pair. .$2.49
Girls' Patent Cloth-fop SHoss, pair. .$2.65
Boys' Gunmotal or Lac Shoes, pair. .$2.49
Boys' Heavy Unlined Calf Shoos, pair $2.50
GROCERIES
Crescent Baking Powder, lb 20c
Carnation Pork and Beans, can. ...5c
Curre-Cut Macaroni, lb. only 9c
Olympia Pancake Flour, small sack 73c
Otter Brand Oysters, can 15c
Parawax, lb. pkfrs. 23c; 2 for. . -45c
Dattdr Soap, the bar cply. ...... .5c
COMFORTERS
$3.50
These are extra larjce;
filled with flufy, white cot
ton -and covered with fine
silkoline.
Wool-Nap Blankets
$5.49
Larjre in size and of cood
weight. The colors are,
gray, tan, white, with col-'
ored borders. Worth $6. 50.
Our price $5.49.
Lawns and Voiles
23c
A Rood assortment of
patterns, 36 inches wide. -.
Tuesday only. Regular
3 5c grade for 23c yard.
Buster Brown Hose for
boys and girls; splendid
for school. Pair 35c .
APRON CHECK GING
HAMS A big lot to be of
fered tomorrow. Yard 16c
Fleisher'a Knit tins Yarn
2-oz." balls in all the new
colors. Ball 65c
For the Worker
in Wood
No. 9 Self-setting Planes
$4.50.
No. 4 Self-setting Planes
$4.25.
Diamond - Edge Hand
Axes for $1.85.
Sampson Braces for
$4.00 to $4.50.
-Irwin Auger Bits, the set
$5.75.
Buck Bros.' "2" Gouge
for $2.45.
Lufkin's 50-foot Steel
Tapes, $3.95.
Six-foot Zig-Zag Rules
for 0c.
Four-foot Rustless Metal
Rules for $1.40.
Everybody Paint
We have the paints at
the lowest prices. Look
at these:
Kalsomine, all colors.
lb. 8c
House Paint, all colors,
gallon $2.75.
Varnish, the gallon only
$2.00.
Auto Paint, quarts 50c
Pints 25c
War Contracts for I
Oregon Factories
Declared Essential
That war contracts must be secured
for manufacturing plants of the Oregon
district, was the statement Saturday
of Judge C. H. Carer, chairman of the
district, in a meeting of the committee
of the war industries board. To get
men, materials and fuel, war contracts
are essential, he said, and pointed out
the statement made recently by Pay
master Parsons of the navy:
"Government war contracts are In
dispensable and a firm is not well off
without them, even from a selfish stand
point. They assure coal, transportation,
materials and exemption of employee"
It la entirely probable, Secretary W.
H. Crawford of the Oregon boara be
lieves, that the government will allocate
men and materials to firms with war
contracts, and the big problem facing
Portland Is the immediate securing of
all contracts that can be handled.
Secretary of Linn
County Chapter of
Red Cross ilesigns
Albany, Aug. 26. After devoting her
whole time ever since the war waa de
clared against Germany, Mrs. J. D. Sum
mers has tendered her resignation as
secretary of the Linn county chapter
of the American Red Cross. Mrs. Sum
mers has been secretary of the Linn
county chapter since April, 1917, being
the first permanent secretary to be
elected.
Streetcar Collides
With Auto; 3 Hurt
Three persons were Injured, and an
automobile completely wrecked when a
Vancouver streetcar collided with the
machine driven by Mrs. T. G. Auld, 305
Eleventh street. Saturday night, at Union
avenue and Wasco street. Mrs. Auld said
she stopped at. Union avenue to wait
for two passing streetcars before at
tempting to turn south at the inter
section. After' tha second car had passed
she swung her automobile directly in
front of the Vancouver car, and the ma
chine with Its occupants was pushed
nearly a block before the car was
brought to a standstill. Passengers said
that the car was traveling between 15
hand 40 miles an hour. The Injured per
sons are G. Morse, back hurt and
bruised; Mrs. O. Morse and Mrs. F. D.
Vogler, bruised and. shaken up. All of
the Injured persons live at 120Vi Broad
way. '
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Pioneer Astorian la Dead
Astoria, Or., Aug. 26. Edward Rous
low, a resident of Astoria for 24 years,
died suddenly at his home Thursday.
Mr. Rouslow was born In France, and
came to the West when quite young.
For more than 20 years he was em
ployed at the Fox Iron works of Astoria,
retiring from that work only a few
years ago. He Is survived by his
widow, a son and a daughter of thla
city. 0
Constantinople AUaeked by Airmen
Amsterdam, Aug. 28. U. P.) Two
allied air squadrons attacked Constan
tinople on Wednesday night, according
to an official dispatch received front
that city.
SATURDAY IS THE CHRISTIAN
SABBATH, DECLARES THE BIBLE
EVANGELIST L. K. DICKSON GIVES HISTORY OF OBSERVANCE OF SEVENTH DAY
FROM CREATION WEEK DOWN TO CHRIST AND APOSTLES, AND PROVES THAT
IT NEVER WAS CHANGED.
Shows That Prophets Foresaw Great Reformatory Movement on Sabbath Question Going to the
World in This Generation.
Albany Kanning Kitchen Busy
Albany. Or., Aug. 26. Working in
daily relays of from four to six, 22
members of the women's division of the
Council of Defense have kept Uncle
Sara's "kanning kitchen" In operation
this past week. The produce which they
are canning is to be turned over to the
training camps for soldiers, where it Is
used upon the hospital menus. The work
done during the past week includes 44
quarts of beans. 73 quarts of pears, 13
quarts of plums, 34 quarts of prunes,
49 quarts of apple sauce, 23 jars of jelly
and 23 jars of plum butter.
53 Hogs Bring $2048.20
Albany, Or., Aug. 26. Even though
the car contained a few cows, calves
and Iambs, McMahan & Frura had to
pay 12048.20 for the 55 head of hogs,
which filled out the car. The hogs aver
aged 196 pounds per head, and brought
19 cents a pound ' at Halsey. This is
believed to be the highest priced bunch
of pork ever shipped from the county.
Schoolboy of Oregon
To Judge Livestock
At Seattle Show
The Dalles. Or., Aug. 26. Harold
Johnson of Wamlc, a school boy. has
been chosen t.o represent Oregon in
stock judging at an Interstate contest
which will be held in Spokane, Wash.,
from September 1 to 7. He is a member
of the Vasco County Industrial club.
The Dalles, Or., Aug. 26. Tom Shiba,
a Chinese boy. was the first to register
Saturday for war service," signifying
that he has become 21 years old since
June 5. Merrill Martin Donnell, a Uni
versity of Oregon student, and Jack
Hill, a jail inmate,' were next in Una
German Chancellor
To Deliver Speech
London, Aug. 26. (I. Is". S.) The im
perial German chancellor will deliver
an important speech upon the reconven
ing of the reichstag within a few days.
according to an Exchange Telegraph dis
patch today from Copenhagen, which
quotes the Berlin Germania. According
to the Germania the chancellor will dls-
cusss foreign political questions.
Woman Falls and
Is Badly Injured
Mrs. Anna Johnson, en route to
Cheyenne, Wyoming, with her two
children Edna, aged 12, and Eddie, 10
was badly injured while walking in the
city Sunday morning. Mrs. Johnson had
just arrived from San Francisco, and
waa strolling along Sixth street when
she slipped off the curb at Gllsan street.
striking her head on the edge of the
cement sidewalk as she fell. She was
taken to the Good Samaritan hospital
by the AmDuiance service company,
where it was found that she had re
ceived a dangerous scalp wound.
Drafted Man Joins
W.S.S.Limit Club
Bend, Or, Aug. 26. Called to serve
Uncle Sam under the selective service
law, Gustavo Berry decided to have
his money working for his country at
the same time, and Saturday came to
town and invested in the limit of War
Savings Stamps. By his purchase Berry
became the only member of the Limit
club in Deschutes county outside Bend,
and also boosted the quota of his home
district. Alfalfa, way over the amount
set for it in the recent drrve. With
nine other Deschutes county men Berry
leaves on Monday for Camp Lewis.
In his lecture at the big tent pavilion
at Thirteenth and Morrison streets last
night on "The Christian Sabbath Which
Day Does Christ Demand Us to Keep?"
Evangelist L. K. Dickson examined
texts concerning the observance of the
Sabbath from the creation week down
to the time of the apostles, and proved
that neither Christ nor his apostles ever
changed the sacredness of the day from
the seventh to the first. He showed
from the New Testament that Jesus was
a seventh-day Sabbath-keeper, that he
taught his disciples to observe the day,
and that bis apostles In turn left many
evidences where they both observed it
and taught others to do so.
Mr. Dickson not only gave a clear
exposition concerning the sacrednees of
the seventh day and the immutability of
the Fourth commandment, but also ex
amined every text in the New Testament
in which the first day was mentioned,
and declared that in not one instance
was the day set aside for religious pur
poses. After showing that those who
observe Sunday as the Sabbath have no
Bible authority for doing so, the evange
list brought out from the Bible the bless
ings which God haa promised to those
who refrain from doing their own plea
sure on his holy day.
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of the 'rest of the holy Sabbath unto the j
Lord' as coming upon the day following
the sixth day.
The purpose of the Sabbath institution
is not that man should merely have
physical rest but that he should rest also
spiritually, and tfiat his mind should be
directed during these sacred hours to
God as the creator of heaven and earth
in six days, 'and as the re-creator or
sanctifler of the hearts of his children.
(Ex. 31 :17 ; Exek. 20:12.)
It is clear to the mind of everybody
that God's people from Sinai to the New
Testament times kept the Sabbath of
the commandment, and there is no hesi
tation on the part of Christians today in
admitting that this Sabbath day was
the seventh day of the commandment,
the Saturday of our calender. But some
how men have gotten themselves to be
lieve that in New Testament days God is
neither particular nor definite in his
desires concerning the observance of the
Sabbath. I desire to call especial atten
tion to the fact that nothing is said in
the Bible of a Sabbath institution apart
from the day. Some wpuld have the
commandment read : "Remember the
-Sabbath institution to keep it holy. Six
days shalt thou labor and do all thy
work, but one day in seven shalt thou
rest, for one-seventh part of time is the
Sabbath institution ; in it thou shalt not
do any work.' They would have the
blessing and sanctlflcation placed upon
the institution apart from the day, but
God plainly placed his blessing and
i eanctlflcation upon the day. God did
not say. "Remember the Sabbath to keep
it holy' ; but he did say, 'Remember the
Sabbath Day to keep it (the day) holy.'
It is the day that is to be kept holy, be
cause it was the day that was blessed
preceding the first day of tha week.
According to Mark, the Sabbath came
before the arrival of the first day of
the week. So the New Testament de
clares the Sabbath to be the day Just
preceding the first day of the week.
The next instance of the mention of
the first day of the week is found in
John 20:1X, and John hero merely
makes mention of the day, calling it by
its number In the weekly cycle. Again
in the 18th verse we read ; 'then the
same day at evening, being the first day
of the week, when the doors were shut,
where the disciples were assembled for
fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood
in the midst, and saith unto them, peace
be unto you.' There again the beloved
of the Lord, writing 63 years after the
ascention in the days of the early church,
in making mention of the day now com
monly called Sunday, calls it the first
day of the week.
Many well-meaning Christians mlsln
trepret this text to mean that Jesus met
with the disciples on this Sunday, the
day of his resurrection. i
As they were assembled In commemor
ation of his resurrection, but the error
of this doctrine is made plain in Mark
16 :10-14. and Luke 24 :36-40, where we
read that the disciples did not believe
and would not belive that He had risen.
'And she (Mary Magdalene) went and
told them that had been with him. as
they mourned and wept. And they.
when they had heard that he was alive.
and had been seen of her, believed not.
After that he appeared in another form
unto them, as they walked, and went
into tlie country. And they went and
told It unto the residue ; neither be
lleved they them. And as they thus
it was the day upon which God rested ; I spake. Jesus himself stood In the midst
Evangelist L. X. Dickson
Von Falkenhausen
Told About Yanks
Paris. Aug. 26. (U. &P.) The latest
issue of the mysterious patriotic news
paper, "La Libre Belgique," contains a
sarcastic personal open letter addressed
to Gen. von Falkenhausen, the military
governor of occupied Belgium, Informing
him of .the "whalloping" that the Ameri
cans are preparing for Germany. The
letter gives Falkenhausen the details of
the wonderful growth of the American
army recently announced iry Washington.
N- -z)i. Good Bread
Ce. KVl Made Under
i? . xl? MiliilTui Patriotic
In opening his lecture, which was
listened to by an audience which packed '
the pavilion to its capacity, Kv angel ist
Dickson said :
"My text is Mark 2 :27 and 28 :-' And
he said unto them, the tiabbath was
made for man and not man for the Sab
bath ; therefore the son of man is Lord
also of the Sabbath. The Sabbath does
not pertain to one dispensation, merely,
but to all. It is not peculiar to tha
Edenic, or Mosaic, or Christian age. It
does not pertain to men as Jews or
Gentiles, as sinners, or as saints, it
covers all time ; it embraces all races
of mankind. It begins- with the first
man ; it Uvea with man after he be
comes Immortal. It commemorates the
creation of the- heaven and the earth,
and shall, therefore, last while heaven
and earth endure.
"The Sabbath was made. There was
therefore a maker and a time when it
was made, and certain acts by which
it was made. Our text Itself points us
to a time prior to the giving of this
statement of Jesus Christ, as the time
when the Sabbath was made, and as we
look Into the past, our attention is
called to creation week. First let us
find who made the Sabbath. In speak
ing of the creation, Paul in Eph. 3 :9
states that 'God created all things
by Jesus Christ,' and in Col. 1 :12 to 17,
we are assured, as he speaks of his son,
Jesus Christ that by him were all things
created, that are in heaven, and that
are in earth, visible or invisible,' and in
John 1 :l-8 it is stated 'all things were
made by him : and without him waa not
anything made that was made.' John
makes himself very clear that he is
speaking of the creation, tor- he says.
In the beginning.
"Therefore, Christ in the statement
which he makes in our text, refers us to
his work at the end of the creation week
when by three great unchangeable acts
he made the Sabbath. It seems clear,
then that the Christian Sabsath is the
aaooatn oi creation. .
"Three acta entered into the establish
ment of the Sabbatic Institution. First,
He rested on the seventh day; second.
God blessed the seventh day ;' third, he
'sancifled it,' These three great acts
are unchangeable, for they were per
formed by him who changeth not, and
in whom there Is no variableness,'
neither shadow of turning. That which
God has placed his blessing upon, we are
told Is blessed forever, and Insofar as
puny man is concerned, he cannot re
verse It. (1 Chron. 17:27; Num. 28:20)
God did hot sanctify or set apart a
seventh part of time, but rather
rested on, blessed, and sanctified the
seventbj day of the first week of time,
and of every week of time, which should
com consecutively in all the history of
the world. For the Sabbath was made
for man, not for the Jew-man alone,
but for all mankind,' which therefore
would Include all nationalities, both Jew
and Gentile, and for this word 'man' in
the original is used in the generic sense
and cannot be confined to a particular
class of mankind.
"This la clear because of the fact that
this Christian Sabbath, made by our
Savior, waa made 2000 years before a
Jew existed. And that It was not con
fined to tha period this side of Sinai,
where the law was given, may be readily
understood from the' fact that the Sab
bath Commandment of the decalogue
says 'Remember,' which Immediately
points the mind back to an Institution
the Israelites were familiar with prior
to the giving of the law. At least one
month prior , to the proclaiming of the
law - from Sinai's summit. .Moses at
tha command of God, reminded tha seasla
it was the day that God appointed to be
kept.
The teaching of the Ner Testament is
very clear regarding the Christian Sab
bath, and beside our text which gives us
the words of Jesus in the gospel dispen
sation concerning the Sabbath, we have
Hia example in Sabbath-keeping defi
nitely pointed out in Luke 4 :16 : 'And
he came to Narareth, where he had been
brought up; and as his custom was, he
went info the synagogue on the Sabath
Day, and stood up for to read." Christ's
relation to the Sabbath has been seri
ously misunderstood, and It is not un-
I common to hear it said of Him. and with
i some show of triumph by those who
l should know better, that Christ broke
the Sabbath. Those who make this
charge put themselves in the eame class
with the old scribes anf Pharisees, for
this was the false charge they brought
against Christ. John 9 :16. Christ did
not break the Sabbath. He kept the
Sabbath faithfully throughout his entire
life, as the text which we have just
quoted shows.
What he did break was the infinite
number of "blue laws' or Sabbath re
strictions, which had been made by the
rabbis. He kept the Sabbath, but his
Sabbath-keeping was considered Sabbath-breaking
by fanatical, religious
leaders of that time, and it was
upon this very point of the Sabbath
that they first attempted to destroy
him, as may be seen from Mark 3 :l-6.
It is often claimed that the New
Testament introduces another day, the
first day of the week, as the Christian
Sabbath. We will now examine the evi
dence which is submitted to substantiate
this claim. The best way to arrive at
the truth or falsity of this claim is to
study every passage in the New Testa
ment which speaks of the first day of
the week. In this way we shall bring to
gether the entire teachings of God's
word concerning this day, and by so
doing we shall learn whether the first
day has taken the place of the seventh
day.
The first Instance mentioned in the
New Testament is found in Matthew
28:1: 'In the end of the Sabbath, as it
began to dawn toward the first day of
the week, came Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary to see the sepulchre.' It
ia merely called the first day of the
week. The Sabbath and the first day
are presented in contrast.
The second mention of the first day is
Mark 16 :l-2 : "And when the SaRbath
was past, Mary. Magdalene and Mary.
the mother of James and Salome, and
brought sweet spices, that they might'
come and- aaoint him. And very early
In the morning the first day of the
week, they came unto the sepulchre at
tha rising of the sun." The Sabbath had ,
passed, and they had entered upon an
other week of time, and had gone to the
sepulchre to anoint the body of Christ
that first day morning an act whio
they had declined to perform on the holy
Sabbath. Here again there is distinction
between the two days ; they are again
held out in vivid contrast, the seventh
day continuing to bear aloft its sacred
title the Sabbath.' Mark wrote this ac
count ten years after the ascension,
therefore should have given some infer
ence of the sacredness of the first day
if there existed Buch sacredness.
The third time the first day is men
tioned is in verse nine of this same
chapter and we are given simply the
numerical title of the day, and no men
tion is made of any sacredness attached
thereto.
,The first day is next mentioned In
Luke 24 :1X. We will begin quoting
from Luke 23 :56 : 'And they returned, and
prepared spices and ointments ; and
rested the Sabbath day according to
the commandment. Now upon the first
day of the week, very early in the
morning, they came unto the sepulchre,
bringing the spices which they had pre
pared, and certain others with them.'
It is perfectly clear to all that the first
day of the week Is here referred to In
direct contradiction to the Sabbath, and
teaches us that those who were the
closest followers of Jesus Christ while
r ere upon earth recognlxed that they
were doing his will when they kept the
Sabbath according to the commandment'.
When'the people of today reach the point
in personal Christian experience where
they are willing to settle all controversy
over the Sabbath question by the scrip
tures, as those people did in that day, we
too will hereafter rest the Sabbath day
according to the commandment' ; which
day is now. as it was then. t day just
of them, and saith unto them, peace be
unto you . Behold my hands and
my feet, that It Is I myself : handle me,
and see ; for a spirit hath not flesh and
tones as you see me have. And when he
had thus spoken, he showed them his
hands and his feet. And while they yet
believed not for joy. and wondered, he
said unto them, have you here any
meat?' The context of both of these
passages shows that this experience
took place -bn the day of his resurrec
tion. Most certainly they could not have j
been met together in sacred honor of '
the day to celebrate the occurence of an
event which they themselves did not be
lieve had taken place. It would be pre
posterous to suppose that any body of
men would do such a thing. They were
not assembled to celebrate the Lord's
resurrection, nor were they in a religious
service for the record plainly declares
'They were assembled for fear of the
Jews'. Their Master had been taken
away and crucified. And we have the
record concerning them, that they all
forsook him and fled'. Mark 14:40.
When they fled, they all, by various
routes, got themselves home, and when
they were there they locked the doors.
They feared the Jews would find them
also, and deal with them as they had
dealt with Christ. They were all assem
bled because they all lived together.
Acts 1:13.
The next mention of the first day of
the week is In Acts 20:7. 'And upon the
first day of the week when the disciples
came together to break bread. Paul
preached unto them, ready to depart on
the morrow : and continued his speech
until midnight 'No person, however
sincere he may bs can candidly contend
that the act of holding a meeting upoft
a certain day of the week makes the
day sacred. If so, every day of the week
would be a Sabbath, for meetings have
been held upon every day of the week.
God only can make a day sacred. There
ia no doubt that this passage contains
the record of a religious meeting on the
first day of tha week. And in this it is
unique, for it is the only passage in the
Bible which contains such a record.
And because of this it is worthy of, close
study. This was a special meeting, a
farewell meeting, and Paul was talking
to the believers Just before leaving for
Jerusalem. Acts' 20:16. The meeting
was held at night, for 'there were many
lights in the upper chamber, where they
were gathered together,' and Paul was
'ready to depart on the morrow,' and he
continued his speech until midnight'.
There is no doubt that this was a night
meeting.
Now, according to the Bible reckoning
of the days, there is but one night to
the first day of the week, and that
is Saturday night. The Bible days be
gin at sunset and end at sunset, while I
by our present reckoning the days begin
at midnight and clone at midnight. The
first day if the week of the Bible begins
when the sun sets Saturday night, and
ends when the sun sets on Sunday sight.
It therefore follows that this meeting
which Paul conducted at Troas, being
held during the night of the first day of
the week, was held on what is now
known as Saturday night. Hence there
Is no proof in this passage that the
apostles kept Sunday.
The eighth time the first day is men
tioned in the New Testament Is in 1 Cor.
16 :l-4 : "Now concerning the collection of
the saints, as I have given orders to the
churches of Galatia even so do ye. Upon
the first day of the week let everyone of
you lay by him in store, as God bath
prospered him, that there be no gather
ings when I come, etc." This passage
has been made the basis of the, claim
that the early Christian churches were
accustomed to hold their services on the
first day of the week, and take up a col
lection at these weekly meetings. But
the passage Itself says' no such thing.
Paul does not here give Instruction to
hold a weekly meeting. Instead of hold
ing a meeting on the first day of the
week, "everyone" of you was to "lay by
him in store."
The great commentator. Albert Barnes,
translates this expression "let htm do
this by himself when he is at borne, and
Justin Edwards gives It in his notes,
"lay by him in store ; at home." Green
field, in his Greek lexicon, gives it "at
home." They were then to lay by them
selves, at borne, or at their places of
business, the amount they decided to givs
and keep It "if store" until Paul cam to
Corinth. Therefore, under ths light of
tha best commentators ws find- thers is
no evlddnce at all in this passage of
Sunday sacredness. or that the early
churches held weekly meetings on the
first day of the week. In fact, the evi
dence all points In the other direction.
And for evidence of this fait we have
but to notice the record as given in Acts
17:2, 1:4 and 11 which clearlv state that
Paul held at least 80 meetings on the
Sabbath day, according to the command
ment. The objection is sometimes raised that
these meetings were held with the Jews.
Bat that Paul in his evangelistic work
with the Gentiles preached to them
through his example of the unchanged
and unchan:f able Sabbath is evident
from the words found in Acts 13 :42 :
"And when the Jews were gone out of the
Synagogue, the Gentiles besought that
these words might o preached to thorn
tht next Sabbath." And the record la
verse 44 declares u "The next Sabbath
day fame almost the whole city tog-,
gether to hear the word of God."
Thus far we have found the Sabbath
of the New Testament, the Christian
Sabbath, both by the precept and exam
ple of Christ and his apostles to be the
Sabbath, "of the commandment." and w
have not quote l isolated rases of Sab
bath keeping In New Testament times
but have fund it to be the custom and
manner cf these f -'.nt'ers of the early -
cnurci to ne!p tne ba'.tath. the seventh
day of the .eU.
"As we look into the teachings of the
Bible concerning this Sabbath question
as it applies ;o later than apostolic times,
we find pointed1 out to up God's will for
our day the last days in the words of
the prophet Isaiah in chapter 66:1-2 of
his book: "Thus saith the Lord, keep y
judgment and do justice: for my sal
vation is near to come (the serond com
ing of Christ. eb. 9:29; lea. 62:11;
Rev. 22:12) and my righteounnea to b
revealed. Blessed is the man tht doeth
this, and tli son of man that layeth hold
on It; that keepeth the Sabbath from
poiutlng it, and keepeth his hand from ,
doing any evil." Thus the Sabbath Is
brought especially to the attention of
men and women living In the last gen
eration, placing a special blessing upon
the Indivl i i il who, hiving polluted ths
Sabbath, will cease from so doing and
vlb obssrve It ; also keeping his hand t
trom do:nr my evil.
Again in the 68th chapter of Isaiah
God commands through his prophet that
God s ministers "cry .aloud, spare not,
lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
show my people their transgression, and
the house of Jacob their sins." This '
great outstanding transgression of God's
people is pointed out in the thirteenth
verse, where the promise Is made: "If
thou turn away thy foot from the Sab
bath, from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight,
the holy of the Lord honorable; and
shalt honor him, not doing thine own
ways, rtor -finding thine own pleasure,
nor speaking thine own. words: then
shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ;
and I will cause thee to ride upon the
high places of the earth, and feed thee
with the heritage of Jacob tny father;
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken
It."
In the time of the fulfillment of this
prophecy the attention of the Christian
church will be called to their transgres
sion of the Sabbath the fourth com
mandment and the moral law. which
says: "The seventh day Is the Sabbath
of ths Lord, thy god." Ex. 20 :10.
Just prior to the second coming of
Christ' to impart eternal salvation, the
Sabbath reformation will he heralded
world wide ; and God's people will ac
cept -.the message and "lay hold on It
the Sahbath." The, blessing assured to '
the faithful, trusting soul is revealed in
these texts. The true membership of
God's church would not deign to trans
gress any of ths other nine of thoss
holy precepts of that moral law.
Could a true man steal, kill, swear or
commit adultery? With one voice ws
all Answer. No! But thers Is the on
transgression of tha law to which Isaiah
calls the attention of Christ's people
which Is an unintentional violation of
the Sabbath commandment. Ths pro-
phet grants that this transgression
sin is committed ignorantly on th
part of the Lord's people ; that when
their transgression is pointed out :to
them they will reform. The Lord has
confidence In his people that they will
accept the Sabbath reformation ; for he ;
says : "They seek me daily, and delight
to know my ways: . . . they take de
light in approaching to God." Iss. 58
That the jtosssage of Sabbath ref orni
was also to ths world as well as to the
church, is evident from the latter part
of verse 1 of this same chapter, which
reads: "And ths houss of Jacob tbr
sins." Jacob la a symbol of ths unre
generated : and their alns are many
"like the sands of the sea." And of ths
success of this message of Sabbath re
form, the' prophet John, on ths lowly il.
of Patmos, saw a people gathered out
who were "without fault before ths
throne of God," whom he describes as
thoss who "keep the commandments of
God snd ths faith of Jesus." And. in
Isa. 66 :23 ws read of the habits of these
peoplet after taking up thetrsAode In
the earth made new: "And? It shall
come to pass ihat from ons new .moon
to another, snd from one Sabbath to
another, shall all flesh corns to worship
before me. saith the Lord." Shall ws
not then now determine In our hearts,
by the help of God, to take our feet off
the Sabbath, and to keep ths Sabbath
Jesus kept with the disciples and ths
early apostles of the Christian church. "
and through ths power of a life cleansed
from sin. partake of ths blessings of .
tha gospel and ths heritage of Jacob ,
In ths earth mads new? Let us throw '
ir our tradition mnA man -n, t
orles upon this great and important
r thems, and planting our feet firmly upon
ooa i word, walk In ths way of his com
mandments." Ths subject for tonight will . bs :
"Who Changed ths Sabbath? Ths Bible
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