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