CHBtST 1
DEBATE
know that I am the Lord your made.
deuce that there is a God, liut how
God.’’ It Was a sign between God
Rest
here
has
no allusion to Sab i- can we prove that we serv«f him;
Synopsis of Discussion on the Sabbath,
and Israel. The Christians are the bath. The word does not mean only by keeping the Sabbath ?
commencing-sfune ii.5, 188$, held at
The seventh Sabbath. . Would God give a com Reference to Ex. xxiv 12. Moses
Farmington, W. T., between E1<1. C. j. true Israel of God.
Wright, of tJhe Church of Christ, und day Sabbath is the sign Itetween mand to keep the seventh «lay.holy commanded to hew out two tables
Eid. Alonso T. Jones, Seven! Inlay Ad the sun-worshipers and other idola and man not know it tbr-25(Mf of stone and the Lord wrote on
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ters. None are of God but'they that years. He «piotes Mark ii. 27. and j tliem the texi—xxnumumlmcnts,
keep- thw Sal >1 >at h:—Reference» 'to ^applies it to all mankind. Please I Therefore I say the ten command-
- PROPOSITira- -E^rved;iUr Is. xxxi. 35. God will ever pre notice the following : Luke-', v. 20, : ments are the law of the Bible.
Rte Seventh day of the week is the serve them as long a*, time lasts. " and when he saw their faith lie This is the law that God wrote.
Subbath of the Lord, and, as such Rom. fee 6. The Gentiles are en said man thy sins are fîirgiven Ex. xvi 4 Here Cod proves them
'teas given at creation, and all men grafted into the true Israel. Rom. thee.” Does rman here mean a/Z by the . fourth commandment. '
" were and are commanded to .keeg xi. 17 ; Jer. xi.; Gal. vi. 16. New mankind I
Therefore I say the fourth com
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it holy unto the Lord.
Jerusalem, Rev. xxi.: twelve gates • Again, Luke xii. 14, “ man who « mandment is a part of God’s law.
and twelve foundations}, twelve made me a jutlge or a divider aver I The facts that lie blessed -and
Eld. Jones affirms an«! Eld. Wright tribes of Israel. Janies epistle to you !” Certaiitly he was not speak- ! sanctified it are the facts that they
1 denies.
twelve tribes, etc. Luke xxii. 28, ing to all
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mankind. Again, Gen. 1 were commanded to keep it.' 1st
30,
twelve
thrones
Jhey
should
sit
the JLAJlll
Lord l Psalm,
In his
law «loth lie medi-
iii 2L. "The
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upon judging the twglv'e tubes of Goddhad taken froii
made lie tate day and night,1 ete. Psalms
“ The seventh day of the-week is Israel.
a woimui.rti.id brought her to man ” xxxvii. 28 Psalms cvii, also cxix. .
the Sabbath of the Lord.” Sab
Isaiah lxvi. The Gentiles cum-, -4»*4he- same-sense do we nnde-rstand . and c;xxx.
bath means rest. Proof, Gen. ii. 2, ing into the tame olive or true Is the Sabbath was made for man. f Ezekiel. “ Fear God ami keep
3. “ And on the seventh day God rae^, take in the Sabbatli «lay,
not all mankind. Sec Webster’s his commaLdments.” I contend
en«led his work which lie had niude ;
definition
of man.
that • the-teii commandments con-
BRO. wnuniT’s FIRST REPLY.
and lie rested on the seventh «lay ,
He says.Gem-sis is ii<>( a book of t;dn man s primary <>>><-«Ii< r¡< •. 'fh«-
from all'the-work which lie had
The «question before us is one on commands. Yet Go«t must have great commamlment in the J aw is
made. Ami Go«l blessed the sev which is suspended)%. not matters given man a Sabbath. Smi.tîi in thou shaft love the -Loid thy Go«l J
enth day ami sanctified it; because pertaining to our natural life, but Bible Dictionary says there is no with all thy heart, mind, soul ami
that in it he ha«l rested from’all his our eternal interests. The question evidence of the Sabbath being giv- strength. And th«\ second is, Thou
work which Go«l create«! aii«l is a very important one. If you en until the eating of the yianna in , shnlt love thy neighbor as tliysr lf.
made.’’ Also Ex. xx. 10, 11. “ For know the motives of my heart, you the wilderness. Go« J reM/ r’d<»n that1 On these two hang the law and
in six days the Lor«l made heaven could realize that love ami fespect «lay an«I gaXe jtto lsrat/1 as a me- the prophets.
and earth, the sea and al! that in uppermost in myjntnd. .
morial of their « «lepaidure
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from .. rko . ç . j . W right ’ s s E i ' o ND REPLY. _
them . is ami rested the seventh
if 1 understand the proposition .he
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----day-t—- whe re fo re- the L «rr d ditr^seFt" “is lujUnd to prove three points; a The‘Lord our God made a cove
1 must exprès ‘ my astonishment
the sabbath day, ami hallowed it.” failure oneitlier of which would be nant with ui in Uoreh. The at two things in this discussion.
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Alsu Helgvws. iv. 4, “ For lie spake fatal to his cause.
Lord made lmt this ’covenant with 1st. I did not quote. Vogal as au-» ■
in a certain place <»f the seventh L ,1st. 'That flic seventh'«lay «>f the our fathers, but with us. who are thority as lie intimates. 2nd. He
day «jn Hns v,4se, and-GorL diil l i st week is the Sabbath .of the Lord. here, alive to-day.” Dent. v. 2*3. admits his case is lost. He says
' the seventh day from all his worlc”- 24--ASuLfhat Jt was given
at crea Il«* says there is-no true worship there is no commaml in the Bible
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Argument. ~That day is I led s tion. ; Jrrt. And f hat u -rnrrt-^^
rest «lav. Therefore it i> gi' «‘.n to and are commanded to keep it holy j given. All are idolaters lmt those -eo nh's th i s —side. _ o L creation. If
-all men as a Sabbath. He ma«le it ii'lto the Lord.
that keep the seventh «lav, thus it was true that Go«l rcste«| on the
honorable by blessing ami sancti-
1 feel it to be my duty as nega- cutting bff the apostles' ami primi seventh «lay is it evidence that
fiing it. SanctifV is to set apart to tive ot the proposition, to examine tive Christians^inasmuch as we maii was commanded to W*ep it !
a holy use. See Wcbsfer’s «Ielini- all the Scripture relic«! on by my' lup c no aecpunV of their keeping He says the command consists in
tion of sanctify.
Bro. as p,roof ami to produce such it, or a commaml to keep it, being die fact that two Scriptures are
It was set apart ami ma«le for Scripture in rebuttal as I think dis given. In Roim xi. 17, lie argues identical. A command is an order
man, i. e, all men. He liallowe«! proves his argument. Bible truths that the true olive was the' ten with authority. If he will turn to
it. See Webster's definition of may be taught in five different commandments—thus the gentiles- where the commaml is given during
hallowed. It was made holy. Ex ways. 1st By express command. wcrc brought in to the seventh «lay the first 2a00 years, I will surren
xix. 22, 25. 'flic priests wt'rc re 2«l. By .necessary implication or in- Sabbath. That the law of God der. After the Sabbath had been
quired to sanctify themselves, etc., fcrence. 3r«l. By probable implica- was continued on and the Gentijes kept 40 years, Moses ill Deut. v. 15,
and Moses said unto the Lord, “the tion or inference, !th. By infer-
reminded tliem that it was because'
were engrafted.in, &,c.
people cannot conic .up to Mount cnee less probable, 5th. By ap-
God
had brought them out 'of
1 assert that ,-the good olive of
Sinai for thou chargest Us’saying, proved precedent or example.
Egypt
“ through a mighty hamland
Rom. xi. 17, is Jesus Christ.- The
set bounds about the Mount ami
1st. An express commaml lie has Jcw.'t'-rcjected, Chirst through un outstretched arm.”
sanctify it. ’ The Mount was set failed to show was given during belief. The Gentiles coming into
At the gathering of the manna
apart by him sanctifying jt. Ex. the first 2,500 years. I defy him
was
the first time the Sabbath was
faith were engfaft-ed into Christ.
to produce such command. 2d. the
xix. 12, &c.
known.
“ This is. tliiit which the
When the day was sanctified it By necessary implication or infer If hp does not show the. command Lord hath said. 'This is a Sabbath
to keep it'from creation then we
was made sacred and devote«J to ence; he has found none 3r«l.. Not ■“shall close this debate.
unto the I/ntl.” Not the Sabbath.
4th.
holy uses. Churches are consecrat even probable implication.
I fear I have failed to get his
elder jones ’ second speech .
ed. Halls are consecrated or set Neither by inference less probable.
idea of the ten commandments. If
•>th. Neither by approve«! prcce-
apart.
Examines argument of Elder he says it is the law of* God, 1 will
Joshua xx. Cities of refuge were dent or example.
Wright on creation, undertaking to know wlierc- t«j meet him Now I
sanctified or set apart Sanctify
Notice his first argument: Gen. prove that G<>«1 created after jthe “Want to know which is the htw of
implies proclamation, or make I ii. 2, 3. That in blessing ami sanc beginning referred t<>, and1 * 3 ii. create«I G«sl and which is tlig law of Moses,
strictly known by proclamation. tifying the seventh «lay. God set after the first <tay, an«f says it is as he speaks of both. 1 will prove
Therefore the word sanctify lias by it apart. Here he fails to find the singular that there is not a Jew on beyoml doubt that the law engrav
implication all the force of a com command to keep it—although earth that, believes the observance en in_ stone is done away. Ex.
maud. It was made for man. Mark Webster’s definition of sanctify is of the seventh day was to commem xxiv. I will now quote his Scrip
ii. 27. I present the fact that all brought into requisition.
orate their departure from Egypt. ture rcfcrrei.l to. “ He was there
To create is to bring into exis Denies it can be proved by Scrip with the Lord forty days and forty
men were commanded to keep the
Sabbath. It was the memorial of tence, or make or to form some ture. Examines Deut. v. 6, claim nights.” He hewed out two tables
thing out of nothing. 'The creation ing there could not be two memo of stone ami he wrote the cove--
.God’s rest at creation Ps. cxi. 4
‘Monumental slabs preserve dates was in the beginning, when the rials at once, au«I as they already nant. What covenant! The ten
of important events.
God has earth was without forxn and Void, ha«l a memorial of that event i. e., commandments. -
made his monumental «lay to be and certainly there was no com- the passover, the seventh day could
Do I m>t hear the prophet Hosea
mam! given to keep the seventh not be the memorial. See Ex xii, say, “ they are ceased.” They are -
rememljcretl.
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20,
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day «vvivuvivii.
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time <xl,
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