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“OO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.” MONMOUTH, OREGON;, FRIDAY, JAN. 2, 1880. •VOL. X. $ NO. 1 promise to Abraham, and was not “covenant” of the “Sabbath day?” two tables of stone, and that no other stoned, which you have incurred a ‘ oi'.ded the promise, and became no Not Abraham, for he had been dead nation had that law, or was eve» C hristian essenger , part or to condition hundred times by violating the Sab of it whatever. 330 years. Nat the Gentiles, for they commanded to perform it. bath law (if you were really under Devoted to the oaaee of Primitive Christi ‘ And this I say, that thé covenant, that were pot there. But tc/to was Moses anity, end the dafiusion of general in “But I mnat die in this land, I m^iat it) -is but like a gentle breez>>, com -was confirmed before of God in Christ, the not go ov«r Jordan; but ye shall go over, formation. law, which was foor bnndred aud thirty told to “ apeak ” to ? Answer, “ TO and possess that good land. Take heed pared with the whirlwind nf the years after, cannot disannul, that itahould THE 'CHILDREN OF ISRAEL *’ What untò yourselves, lost ye forget the cove Price Per Year, ta Advance, «2.50 ■ lhe promise -of none effect. JFor if must THEY do ? “My Sabbaths ye nant of the Lord your God, which he “ wrath of the Lamb ” that shall be All baeineM letter, should be eddr-sseA Ifce inheritance be of the law, ¡tie no more made with you, and make yon a graven visjted upon those who “turn away to T. <'F. Campbotf, Editor, er Mary. •f promise." Gai. iii. 17. shall keep.” How keep it holy ? By image, or the likeness of anything, which from him that speaketh from heaven.’ Stamp, Publisher, Monmouth, Ovegon. M e say again that no promise is doing NO work ; nothing but REST. the Lord thy God hath forbiddeu thee.” .Heb. xii. 25. Advertisers will find this one of the best What is the Sabbath ? “ It is a PROOF CONCLUSIVE. mediums on the Pacific Coast for making made to the Gentile world, through " DURATION OF THE LAW. Israel or /tie children, but every pro sign *” Between whom? “Between their business known.. Moses proceeds in the next chapter We wish now to settle the duration mise to the Gentiles is in Abraham me and the CHILDREN of ISRAEL*’ to settle this matter beyond the pos KATES OF AD/KKT181NO of the “ covenant * of Ten Command H</w long shall they keep it ? sibility of question, that the covenant through Christ. ments, which he wrote upon two I now certainly think that the dis “ Throughout your generations, for a he wrote on two tables of stone was 1 Inch.......... $1 00 «50 S4 1.0 $7 00 »12 00 12-00 20 00 7 00 4 00 ..tables of stone at Hovel».” 2 60 H Col........... tinctive features of the promise to perpetual covenant“ till the seed NOT made with their fathers, but with »5 00 4 00 ’I 00 12 00 20-00 H Col_____ 65 00 the Gentiles, and to the posterity of should come.” Paul. What is the pen The words defining its duration are 7 0« 12)00 20 00 35 00 H Col........... THEM. 12 00 2«-00 35 00 a oo 120 00 ICol......... .. “ throughout your generations,” “ for Abraham, through Ckriat, and the alty of doing ANY work on the Sabbath “And Moses called all Israel, and said Notice« in local coluros 10 cent« per line for promise that pertained to the land of da/ ? “ He shall SUBELY be put to unto them, Hear O Israel, the statutes and an everlasting covenaot“ it is a each innerttor.. Yearly ad«crtiaemaai« an liberal term«. judgments which I spews in your ears this sign between me and the children Canaan, and the nation of Israel, is DEATH !” ^Proia««onal^ard«_(laviiwe)^12^w«msum. day, tha’ ye may learn them, and keep and What reasons were given why they do them. The Lord our God made a cov of I srael forever,’% Ac. From the ' clearly before your minds. THE SABBATH QUESTION. should remember the Sabbath day ? enant with us in Horeb. The Lord made use of these terms, we r.rrive at this THE FIRST SABBATH LAW. not this covenant with our fathers, but There were two, viz.: “For in six days with ns, even ns, who are all of us here conclusion, that the duration or length BY B. C. aSAMS. We now come to the law given by of time embraced in the word is de the Lord made heaven and earth, the alive this day.” Deut. v. 1, 2, 3. Moses, which, for the first time in the (Continued.) sea, and all that in them is, and It is not possible for language to termined by the life, or thing it But Petal, can’t. I be grafted into history of the world, embraces a law rested the seventh day : wherefore the make any fact clearer, or more posi qualifies. That is, if it refers to a t the “ stock-of Israel ’’ (Phil. iii. 5,) and upon the Sabbath day. While in the wilderness, Moses Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and tive than this language of Mose^; man's life, it means during the exis » thus become a cki'd of Abraham, wrote the Book of Genesis ; and if hallowed it.” Ex. xx. 11. And the that the “covenant of Ten Command tence of his life. If it refers to a na through Isaac? No)“by ©o means. Gel had ever before revealed to any other reason was, “ And remember ments” which “he wrote upon two tion, it means during the existence of “ For they.are not all Israel, which are that thou wast a servant in the land tables of stond,” and “commanded that nation. If it refers to any age, of Israel : neither, booaa.se they are the living man the story and process of seed of Abraham, aje they all chiMren ; the six days of creation, coupled with of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God YOU to perform,” was not made with it means during the continuance of but, in Isaac shall thy seed be called. brought thee out thence through a “our fathers,” (Abraham, Isaac and that age. And if used in reference to •That is, they whioh are the, children of the fact that God ended his work and the flesh, theec are- not the ohildreu of rested on the 7th day, and thevefote mighty hand and by a stretched out Jacob,) but that it was made with Christ or God, it means during their ■Cod : but the<children ot the promise are blest and sanctified it, as recorded by arm ; therefore (for that cause) the us. Yes, “ all of us who »re here , existence, which is endless. counted for the seed.”" <*om. ix. 7, 8. ; Lord thy God commanded t H ee to ALIVE THLS DAY !” Examples: Philamon xv. Paul re “ The children of th« tha flesh,” that is, Moses, in Gen. ii. Æ, 3, we have not keep the Sabbath day. ’ Deut. v. 15. turns his runaway servant, and, says, Now there is good reason for « very -the natural dtMcendrtnte according to the first letter or syllable, or record Again, the prophet Ezekiel says • “ He therefore departed for a season, thing that God does, and though he the flesh, “ are not thj children of of the fact, in any Look, or monument that the Sabhaths were a sign God that thou shouldst receive him for- was under no obligations to do so, he None but time who «re or inscription, since the world began t God.” gave Israel to distinguish them from l ever. ” That is, during Lis life. told them just the tuo reasons why Christ’s can be Abra.iawi’s seed, and I invite any man to show any record the other nations called “ heathen. ” . Again, speaking of the law of man they should" keep the Sabbath day heirs according to 'the promise. or evidence that the people ef this “Moreover also I g»»e them my sab (which was the 7th day). Deut. vi. servants in Ex. xxi. 6: “Then his earth ever heard of the six days of Abraham is always sail to be the baths, to be a sign between me and them, 20, 25. In the same exhortation of master shall bring him unto the father of them who belie*a in Christ, creation and the 7th day of rest, until that they might know that I am the Lord judges ; he shall also bring him to the that sanctifieth them. Bat the bouse of Moses he says : and Israel thohb wh ' o ^ are U ndhi ; it “ WAS MADE KNOWN ” to the children Israel rebelled against me in the wilder door, or unto the door post: and his "And tbou shalt teach them diligently of lured, through Jd see ! ness : they walked not in my statutes, and unto thy children, and «halt talk of them THE ILAW ! master shall bore his ear through they despised my judgments, which if a There is not an intimation in the Now let it be -clearlly» understood,, thou eittest in thine bouse, and man do, he shall even live in them; and my when with an awl; and he shall serve him when thou walkeat by the way, and when that on the promise ntodo to-Abra Bible that from the creation of Adam sabbaths they greatly pointed : then I said thou lieat down, and when thou riaeit up. forever," i. e, as long as he lives. ham, rihat “ in thy »seed shell the na down iito^ Moses, a , period of S513 I wanld pour out my fnry upon them ip the And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon wilderness, to oonsume them. Bat I And in Gen. xvii. 8 : “ And I will tions be blest,” the Gen tiisi were in years, <qy hunkan being ever heard wrooght for my name’s sake, that I should thine band, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write give unto thee, and to thy seed after eluded, and were a-part efothe second of theiTon' Commandments or of the not >be polluted before the beathen,, in them upon the posta of thy house, and on whose sight I brought them out. I am thee, the land, wherein thou art a gates. And when thy son aaketh thee party an the covenant. uksjPaul says 'Sabbath, day I the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, thy in time to oome, saying, What mean the stranger, all the land of Canaan, for It is.*! ways considered difficult "to and keep my judgments, and do them; in Eph. .iii. 6: And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall testimonies, and theetttutes. and the judg an everlasting possession," i. e., during jprove a »negative, but if any one of ments, which the Lord our God bath com “That the Gentiles ebortld be fellow be a sign between me and jou. that ye heirs, sad of ths same tody, «ad partakers you bererto-day, know of any sacred may know that I am the Lord vour God. manded you? Then thou shalt say unto the nation’s life. thy eon, We wete Pharaoh's bondsmen in of his paeetue in Chriatlby tb-a floe pel.” historiaivthat antedates Moses, or one Ezk. xl . 12, 13, 14, 19. 20 Of circumcision God said : " And Egvpt ; aud the Lord brought us out of And if we are “ heirs ” to nthe “ in single intimation in Moses’ writing« Nehsmiah’s testimony is emphatic EffJP1 with a mighty hand ; And the my covenant shall be in your flesh showed signs and wonders, great and heritance ” contained in th af^promise, that any patriarch from Adam, down that God made known unto Israel the Lord — * everlasting covenant, , ’ ” i. e t . sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon for an ’ we muA-be the childrens of Abraham ; through ’Methuselah, jNoah, Shera, holy Sabbath by the hand of Mose9. all his household, before our eyes ! And until the new and everlasting cove- - he brought ns out from thence, that he ___a !- and we can only be the chii Iren of Abraham, Isaac or Jacob, ever ob “And aaadest known unto them thy holy mi^hi bring us in, to give ua the land nant in Christ was perfected in the sabbath, and commandest them precepts, Abraham through Christ, wAo was served or aven heard of »the Sabbath which be sware unto our fathers. And blood of Christ. statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses the Lord commanded ns to do all these represented by the so* of the free- day, let him now speak and show us thy servant.” Neb. ix. 14. Also in Lev. xvi • 34: — — . The — a* law OW U1 of statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our woman. Gal. iii. 18: the scapegoat was to be an everlast the »record, er forever after hold his good always, that he might preserve ns It is nat necessary to speak of the alive, as it is at thia day," ing statute, to make atonement for •• For if the inheritance be -of the; law, it peace ! weaning of word?, but if God “ made is no more of promise ; batflod ,<avj it to W hat means the S abbath ? An the children of Israel. TaC LAW.OND SABBATH (CIVEN TO known unto THEM the holy Sabbath,” Abrahaii by .promise.” These examples clearly settle the ISRAEL. and the God of Heaven made known swer. We were bondmen and ser meaning and use of all such adjectivt s While Hagar, the bomdwoma«, re vants in Egypt, Ac. And Deut v. of duiation. We mow begin our direet -and posi the dream to Daniel,” and Daniel presents Mount Sinai, which g«eader- 15 : “R emember that thou wast a (To Continue.) «th to bondage, and answereth to old tive testimony .to prove that the Ten made known the thing unto the servant in the land of Egypt,” Ac. ; king, ” (Dan. ii. 26) it certainly was Jerusalem of Palestine, who was in Com no and monte, with the Sabbath day, j —Letters from numerous Spanish therefore, Ex. xx. 8; “R emember the bondage with her children, eind ,now was given to the children gf Itrrael, not known before. correspondents contain accounts of in Sabbath day.” sult, brutality, and persecutions en and to ¡them only; that it was a But wewillintensify the testin ony by is. Now let me ask you, is this any dured by the protestants, and greatly quoting from Moses ’ last exhortation to Now it is a principle wf com men special law, given to them for .a pur hindering their Work ; but they also reason why YOU should “ remember obedience, after his earnest prayer to law, and of common sense, that when pose, and 36OT given to the other na report conversions among the mem and keep the Sabbath day ? ” Cer see the land, when he repeats what a contract or agreement is made be tions. That it was to be a hiqn be bers of the Sunday-schools. There tainly not. tween two parties, that no oae has tween them and God, as much as God had done for them, and tells them are in Madrid five schools, in the The second reason given commem north of Spain six, in the South ten, any .right whatever to add anything circumcision was a.sign to them that that NO OTHER nation was so great, or to it, or take anything from it. No they were “born in the house* of had such statutes and judgments, or orates the ” rest " after the creation of in the east twelve; in all one hundred and sixty-six teachers and twenty had received the covenant of Ten the world. person, whosoever, except the par Abraham. eight hundred and seven scholars. Now, let me seriously ask you ties themselves, <er an authorized Now “ what aaith the Scripture« f’ Com mandmen ts. Mr. Duncan’s school at Cordova num again, of what interest or value is “For what nation is there ep great, who Aient, any right to change it in .,An,} |be sp<ks ooto bers seventy scholars. A new wheel « ♦ • • <_i _ x_ .». _a_ — _ _ ii God so nigh unto them, as the Lord ( the creation oT the world to you, com- the least. It must abend as originally ing, Mpeak thou also unto the obildran ef hath has been opened by two miners in our God is in all things that we call npoo Ierael, (1) saying. Verily ray sabbaths ye made 1 Bo in thia covenant! God shall keep : for it is a sign (2) between him for? And what aation is there so [»aredjwith the "great ealt'ation” and one of their cottages. Mrs. Hoyle great, that bath statutes and judgments " ETERNAL LIFE ” that is ” brought to has a young school at Leon, attach made a solemn promise to Abraham, me and you (3) ttaonghost your geacm- so righteous as ail thia law, which I set r tionv that ye may know that I am the ed to a day school, whose expenses she that pertained, in the fullness of times, Lord that doth sanctify you.. Ye shall before yon this day ? And the Lord spake light ” in Christ’s resurrection from pays. Her scholars are often stoned. s unto you out of the midst of the fire : ye the. dead upon the first day of the to his posterity, and the Gentiles. A keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy heard "Christie’s Old Organ,” which she Ml-!f the voice of the word, but saw no week ? unto you. Every one that deflletli it shall blessing was connected with that pro surely be put to death: for whosoever similitude; only ye beard a voioe. And he translated into Spanish gratuitously, ♦<> J»- j In comparison, the creation of the declared unto yon his covenant, which he daeth any work therein, that soul shall be she reads not only to the children, mise, and it was in the form of a eat ofl from among hie peohle. Six days declared unto you to perform, even ten world is of as little value as it would but also to her mother’s meeting. A ft* pfi*. covenant, er compact. Now who has ■say work be done; but in the seventh is eommaadmenta ; and he wrote them npoo new school has been opened at Barce teuutoc* any right to change it ? Common the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: who two tables of stone. And the Lord com be " to gai n the whole world and lose lona, outside of all the churches, with 12 k . manded me st that time to teach you stat soever doeth sny work in the sabbath day, your own soul.” Oh * thè fatal law says with Paul, (Gal iii. 15): be ahell surely be put to drain. Where utes and judgments. that ye might do “blindness” and stupidity of deceived forty childred, almost all or of noman Roman o . ■>i an “ Brethren, I apeak after the manner of fore the ehildren of Israel shall hsep the them in the land whither ye go over to Catholic parents. E.. — Mr. Armstrong, p seem ft." Deut. it. 7, 8. 12, 18, 14. men : though it be but a man’s eevevant, sabbath, to observe the sabbath through and ignorant men ! Oh, that they with three ch'irches and six mission yet if it be eon fir mod, (“ confirmed,’’ exe out their generations, for a perpetual cove Language could not make it plainer had known the things that belong to stations, is about opening a school on ;rtts cuted by a seal or otherwise), no man dfs- nant. (4) It is a sign between me and the than that God gave the children., of their peace But now are they hid the American »Ian, in a hall which 5X23 annnlleth, or addeth thereto.’’ i children of Israel torsver." Ex. xxxi. 17. seats fear hundred. The new school Israel at Hereb, bis covenant of Ten from their eyes. 2 Cor. iii. 14. A’e say now that "the law” on 1 at Pampluna has twelve scholars. Sinai wm given 430 years after the I Now who were the parti«« to thia Commandment«, and wrote Ibem upon But the penalty of death, by being —S. S. Timet. M I a a