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% Supplement to The Camden Chronicle VOLUMK XXI OAMDEN. 0 V Y tt 1010 NO * 1.1 i.i i , 1 1 J" 1111 ? - "I WILL HAVE MERCY, AED HOT SACRIFICE." Matthew lfci1*14.?May 1. |i i/ iiv had known what this mcnneth. I ulll have merry, ami not sacrifice, v* icoiiIU not haw condemned the vuiltlcim."? 1. 7. A It 11 A'J'11 ob?ervuncp Is the essence of thin study. licusouahle people, regardless of tholr religious convictions,' are ready i<? admit the wis dom. the expediency, yea, th? necessity, for a Sabbath d'?y, a reat day once a week. Whatever disputes there are on the suhjeet, therefore, kiln to wltli*li day shall bo observed and to tho manner of the observance. In, through Moses iih Mediator, (iod adopted the nation of Israel Ui? illar people. ln? them Into (,'<n*<iuant relationship through their |<iK<'<l obedience to thy I .aw, ho llxed for them a special day of the work, ^cveuth. to lie their Sabbath, or day of rest. This l.:iw specially appor to Palestine. Mad It extended beyond, to encompass the whole eftrtb. kiuld have been necessary for tin* I .aw to specify which day should bo [tiered the Sabbath on the other side of tin; earth, where the time would, lurse, be twenty-four hours different, |iit ihose of uh who are not .lews by nature and not under that J.aw jilt)in are not hound by It# limitation that t lie 'Sabbat h should be on the uh day of the week. Indeed; neither .Jesus nor the Apostles ever placed [iospel Church under the I.aw Covenant at all They tell us that those It were the "house of servants" In bondage and thai we are the "house Itis," If we "stand fust I" the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us f.ls does not menu liberty or freedom to do wronff.? But kIik-c Chris jiirf? not limitc?J i?> I In? laud of Palestine. It Iimvck us free to follow the of t he I.aw rut I) or than Its letter. This is true of the entire Ten Cotn IIII'KIS, unwell as of tile Fourth. The Heavenly Filthier does not titl DIk spirit-begot ten children with commandments not to kill, not to [etc,, hecMiixe such eoiiiinmulmeiiis to them won.Id ho unnecessary. He of llif holy Spirit, they love Cod and reverence him alone, and would |inl< of hemaglng linages. nor of profaning the lloly Name, nor of doing to n neighbor or a brother Oi> t'.se contrary, their Iovp for (iod would bent to houor Ids \ume. to serve Ids Cuiiso. And their love for their |<ir as for themselves would prompt them to rentier him service?"dd k1 unto all men lis we have opportunity, especially to the household of ((Jul. <!:HU This love, the Apostle assures us. is the fulfillment of thp |o far as we are concerned? the fuildtlnc of the of the Law?for not. under the Law (Covenant), hut under |thej Grace (Covenant)."? Gal .lews had a system of Sabbath Days and Sabbath Years?the Seventh the (7x7+1= .10? Fiftieth Day. or Day of Pentecost. And ihey ^ystein of year Sabbaths, the Seventh Year and the (7x7+1= 5th Year, or Year of Jubilee. These were typical, as the Apostle ex* land true Christians may enjoy the antitypes Thus to us the Seventh presents a Host of a higher character than that of the Law?a rest of Instead of a physical rest. "We who believe do enter into his rest"? rest based upon our acceptance of Jesus -ws?nnr satisfaction before [he fulness of this rest we attain when we receive the begetting of the [irir And tlds was typified by the sending of the holy Spirit on the Pentecost. Similarly Israel's Sabbatic Year of Jubilee has Its aud it lie great Millennial Age of Uost. (Acts 3:20) lint we leave the (lis this for 4i more convenient season. (Jrent Teucher us a Jew was us much under the obligations of every of the La w Covenant as any other Jew. We "may be sure that ho folate any feature of It. lie was obligated to keep the letter of it In ind degree which he has not commanded us. his followers It is ours keep the spirit of It. Hence if we were living in Palestine neither nth Day nor any other particular day of the week would he obliga us. But It would be our pleasure to maintain the spirit of the aw. Acting along the lines of tills liberty, the early Church began >n the First Day of the week, because tt w:is on that day that their arose from the dead. On that day lie appeared to some in the up Urid to two on the way tu Emm:ius and to Mary, ami subsequently of the^AWscipIrs near the tomb. Those four manifestations of the FW?fWoii marked that day in a special sense iis a holy day to the i;h They wait (Hi during an entire week atn> then again lie nj> the first day of the week Indeed, so far as we may know, all of appcarauces to his followers after his resurrection were on the of the week. No wonder, then, it became known to them as the ay. No wonder if they specially associated with that Day all the of (Ind and a rest of faith which came to them through the Ite (Julte probably those who lived in Jewish communities would con bserve the Seventh Day also, because its general observance would a necessity Hut the First Day of the week became the general the Lord's followers to assemble themselves and to partake of a al called breaking of bread (not the Lord's Supper) in commemora ? fact that on the day of his resurrection Jesus manifested himself iwers In th? <Tpi?''ttur of bread mil we are Hoi to underBtand from the preaeni study that ill? Master re o roved the Jews for keeping the Seventh Day, which was their duly, lit* reproof* eijiirh to certain extremes. The Pharisees exaggerated some fen Hires and entirely overestimated other features of the Law. In their theory there was no harm In eating the coru. on the Sabbath Day. hut to pull an ear of It they construed to bo reaping. And to ruh It out of the chaff thejr con sidered to 1>h threshing and wlujJuwUiff, ttlntilnrty, to scratch or look for a , Ami was estimated to be hunting, and thus Clod's reasonable Law was made | to appear absurd. It was igcb absnrdltles only that Jesus couibalted. lie showed (hat one had a right to satisfy his huhger, and cited n case where the Prophet David had done so without blame, lie cited also tho fact that the priests labored on the Sabbath Day without Maine. He explained that Clod was desirous of sei'ing In his creatures the quality of mercy towards one another, rather than merely the sacrificing of their comforts.' Had they rec ognized this Truth they would not have found fault with the Apostles. Then, as though to demonstrate his position, be healed a man who had a withered hand, also demonstrating by his miracle that he had tho Divine /avor and that his teaching on tho subject hnd this evidence of Its truthfulness. He pointed out the Inconsistency of his critics, saying that since they would relieve One of their brute beasts, if lie fell into a pit on the Sabbath, they would see, therefore, how Illogical was their position in objecting to his per forming cures of human Ills on tlie Sabbtlth Day. Hut the evil heart is not amenable to reason. Tho very fact that lie demonstrated Ills teachings to be superior to theirs excited the Pharisees to envy, malice, hatred, ami the very spirit of^nurder. Thus they evidenced that they lacked tho quality of mercy, j love, which God would specially approve, and without which we cannot bo his children. Sacrifice Is right In its place, but mercy more particularly In dicates the acceptable condition of the heart. 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