THE
MINNESOTA WORKLR
«Whatsoever thy Hand findeth to do,
do it with thy Might.”
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“SEALING THE SAINTS.”
Our dear Jesus soon will come
In the clouds, to taks us homa.
Soon he will, with mighty power,
Proclaim the awful judgement hour.
Calling to his saints below,
That their time has come tO g0;
Now the waiting time has come,
Christ is sealing,—one by one.
Soon the sealing will be o'er,
Then probation holds no more.
This will close the world of sin,
Christ will thrust bis sickle in,
Garpering his faithful, bere below,
Who have yielded not to foe.
They will go to raign above,
Where there's joy, and peace, and love.
There to live for ever more,
On that bright eternal shore;
There to praises their Saviour, dear,
For his untold suffering here.
Tre following is an editorial from the Chicago
Daily Inter Ocean of Apr. 23, 1895, and from
the reading of it I should judge the editor had
been reading S. D. A. literature. It is re-produced
:n the WORKER not because there is any new
thought or idea in reference to the Sabbath
question, but to show to the world that think-
ing minds are waking up to the truth as to
which day is the Sabbath. Thus the truth is
being sown broad-cast over the land through the
secular press. LB. L
SUNDAY SERMONS AND NEWSPAPERS.
The season being dull, Rev. J. M. Caldwell, of the
South Park Avenue M. E. Church, took for his Sun-
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day morning text “Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy,” and meandered into a denuncieation of
the Sunday newspapers. The Sunday newspaper is
not published or read on the Sabbath day. The Sat-
urday newspaper is published on the Sabbath. “The
seventh day” is that on which Israel was commanded
to “do no work, thou, nor thy sons, nor thy daughters,
nor thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor the
stranger that is within thy gates.” We believe Mr.
Caldwell reads the Sabbath, i.e., the Saturday, papers
with commendable regularity. Once for all, this
clerical juggling with words should cease. Sunday
is not the Sabbath of the Bible, and every preacher
knows that it is not.
Not only is Sunday not the Sabbath, but it is nota
holyday observed for or because of the reasons that
bound Israel to Sabbath observance. Of the Sabbath
— our Saturday— it was written, ‘‘thou shalt keep it
holy, for in six days God created the heavens and the
earth, and rested on the seventh, wherefore he hal-
lowedit.’ The Sabbatirwes instituted wholly: and
solely for commemoration of the endingrof the crea-
tive work of God, and for inculeation of the need of
rest. The Sabbath was not so much a day of spiritu-
al meditation as of physical rest. There is not a
passage of scripture, not one, in which command-
ment is given for change of the Sabbath from the
seventh to the first. The fourth commandment is one
of those that Christ came not ‘‘to destroy, but to ful-
fll.” His life and death changed the central idea of
man. ‘The end of the creationbecamean unimportant
fact, the regeneration became the ‘central thought of
the world. Hence the Sabbath fell into desuetude.
It is observed now only by a part of the Jews, and by
a smaller part of the Christians. The observance of
Sunday is customary with Christians, but, as we con-.
ceive, by habit of reverence only.’ We know of no
divine command for the observance of Sunday. We
make bold to say that there is no direct divine com- .
mand for its usage. .
We admit the abiding force of the spirit of the Mo-
saic law, that one-seventh of each man’s time shall
be restful. The spirit of the fourth commandment
survives, though its letter has become inoperative.
But we plead that the Sunday newspaper abridges no
man’s rest. We contend that it makes the rest of
many more pleasant and more ennobling. We protest
against the utterance that the Sunday newspaper
“militates against spirituality.” We dislike to use
the word, but twaddle is the only word applicable to
such utterance. Excepting a very few there are no
human minds capable of enduring twelve consecutive
hours of intense spiritual exaltation; and it is well