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Keeping Sabbath
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A person means desires to comply with what he believes to be the will of God that concerning his own family, he
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reasons from enforcing others to conform to his own
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opinions. Such compulsion of others what people
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may in the sense of persecution — God has given
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more as authority to cause us to obedience to his
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precepts.
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Religion is a thing between a man and his maker
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usually it be the voluntary offering of the heart it is
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but a vain cold repetition of words which
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cannot be acceptable to God. If a man does
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not believe that religion exists it is his readiness
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to abdicate from labor are the Sabbath be will submit
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with reluctance. If this be real religion there will be
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no justice on his part nor will it advance the party
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of others.
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There can be no more justice or submission in this
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view than there would be in enforcing in favor
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of God's policy upon the people, an abstinence from
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what must declare but in enforcing the Mosaic
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Christian to worship Mohamet.
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1. There is no one precept in the New Testament
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commanding us to keep a Sabbath. If we are
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learned to keep one, it is an consequence of the
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Mosaic law.
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2. The language of the 14th commandment is, "The
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Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord." But the
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Christians keep the first day not the seventh.
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3. There is not a single word within the Old or
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New Testament nor even our allusions relating to the
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substitution of the first day for the seventh. The
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subject is not mentioned in any of the discoveries
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of Christ nor in any of the epistles of his apostles.
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