THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ~ et -- LETTERS To The Editor The Sabbath Question. Kingston, March 24.--(To the Bditor): With your permission I will say a few words more in ans- wer to the rambling letter of . Mr. Laweon on the Sabbath question. He tries to make a big point on the fact that the first seventh day was God's seventh day or Sabbath. 1 did not dispute that, for in the fourth commandment, He says the seventh day 1s the Sabbath of the lord thy God, Fx. 20:10. And 'Ohrist says the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath; He made It, John 1:3, 4, 14. Col. 1:16-17, and He tells us who it was made for. "And he said unto them the Sab- bath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." Mark 2:27. Mr. Lawson calls it God's seventh day, and them calls it the old Jewish Seventh day. Which statement Is correct? The first of course, for the Bible says: "the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Ex. 20:10, and no man ean refute that @tatement, and Jesus says the Sabbath was made for man," and no man can refute that statement. "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof." Ps. 24:1. Ex. 19:5. But He says He has "given it to the ehildren of men', Ps. 115:16. The Lord made the earth for man He says also, that He made the Sah- bath for man, and placed it in the very heart of his immutable law. And Jesus says it 1s easier for heav- en and earth to pass than one title of the law to fail. He says He never changes, 'Jesus Ohrist the same yesterday and {o-day and forever," Heb. 13:8. "With whom is no varia- blemess neither shadow of turning," James 1:17. "1 know that whateo- ever God doeth it shall be forever, pothing can be put to it, nor any- thing taken from it; and God doth ft that men should fear before him," Eccl. 3:14. "I am the Lord, I change not," Mal. 3:6. Now as to Mr. Lawson's criticism of my use of brackets and paren- thesis. I used the word think as intended viz (think) as explanatory of his way of expressing himself. And while he continues to (think) that theory scriptural, I will con- tinue to set the truth of the Secrip- tures before the people as I know it in Jesus. Mr. Lawson wishes to know when the Sabbath begins in Kingston. Such ae foolish question! "From even unto even shall you celebrate your sabbaths." Lev. 23:32. We aro clearly shown in Genesis that the days began and ended in the even- ing. God says He made the sun to rule the day, so from sunset to sun- set is a period of twenty-four hours, Mark 1:21, 32 clearly shows that was the way the Sabbath be- @an and ended in the days of Christ; and it is always sunset on some part of the inhabited earth. In Kingston we keep the Sabbath when it comes to us at sunset, and east of the Atlantic they do the same. 1 might ask how Mr. Lawson keeps Sunday in Verona, for after Sunday has begun here, they are still carry- ing on business in Vancouver. 4) Use Cuticura Toloum Daily For The Skin After a bath with Cutieura Soa, and warm water Cuticura Tulcum is THOMAS COPLEY Phone 987 kind t Carpen given on new Booty Have your hardwood floors clean with our mew floor cleaning ma- Mr. Lawson is wrong In .his rendering of the Greeks in Matt, 28:1, Mark 16:1, 2. Of nouns in the Greek, the gend- er, number and relationship must be shown. These inflections are deter- mined by the cases, of which there are five. Adjectives must agree with their nouns in gender, number ana case; and these inflections are in- dicated in adjectives, the same as in nouns, by a change in the form ox termination of the word. The queéfy may arise, If sabbaton in the first instance 1s rendered "Sabbath," referring to the seventh day, why should the same word, in the sane form, in. the second mn- stance, be rendered "week," re- ferring to all the seven days? The answer is that the word in the las inetance is preceded by the num- eral adjective mian; and the lexi- cone tell. us that always, when the word sabbaton follows such ad- jectives, it means "week," the ad- jective specifying the day of the .week; as, the first, the second, ete. Thus it is easily and absolutely de- termined when to render the word eabbaton "Sabbath," and when "week." Whenever it is preceded by a numeral adjective, as it is the two above texts referred to, it means "week." Why may not mian agree with sabbaton, and be rendered "first sabbath," referring to Sun- day, as a novicé might claim---Be- cause sabbaton {s in the neuter gender, plural number, and genitive case in this instance. There is not a single point of agreement. Neith- er can the word "sabbath" be sup- plied so as to make it read "the first (sabbath) of (a new serles of) sabbaths," as is contended; for man and sabbath do not agree in a single point. Nor can the phrase be rend- ered 'the first 6f the sabbath," re- ferring to Sunday, or any other single day; for that would be non- sense. Mr. Lawson says that the word seventh in Genesls, does not refer to man's reckoning of time. Now God said the evening and the morning was the first day, and the evening and the morning was the second day, etc. Gen, 1:5-31. He made the sun to rule the day and the moon to rule the night, Gen, 1:15-19; Ps, 136:7-9, each day 24 hours long, and If these were not literal days the same as we have now, will Mr. Lawson kindly give me the historical reference of the time when the earth ceased to revolve on its axis every twentv-four hours? I read in Gen. 8:22 "While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." In Jer. 33:20, 25 I read: "Thus saith the Lord; if ye can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night and that there should not be day and night in their season. Then may also my covenant be brok- en with David, my servant that he should not have a son to reign upon his thron®," THe covenant of God in regard to day and night in their season is as fixed as the plan of re- demption, so if Mr. Lawson refers to thousands of year periods in the creatfon, his theory as he loves to call it falls to the ground, before the scriptures like a house of straw. Let me say to Mr. Lawson, I know ae- cording to the scriptures that the disciples were not gathered for wor- ship on the first day of the week, and Mr. Lawson being a minister should be acquainted with that fact and not think it. "And afterwards He ap: peared unto the eleven as they sat at meat and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had eeen Him after He was risen." Mark 16:14. Mr. Lawson ship. The scripture shows it was their evening meal (see Luke 24:13- 43,) which shows that was evening of the first day of the week. They were not gathered to celebrate the resurrection, for they did not know he had riseen. Mr. Lawson says if we count the Sunday of the resurrection, eight days after would be on Sunday again. Now can he give me any re- cord of a week at that time, that eon- tained eight days? And if that could be found which cannot that would not prove that it was on the first day of the week, for the text says "After eight days--John 20:28, which could be nine or ten days after; and in re- ferring to the transfiguration we find that after six days was the eighth day, see Matt. 17:1, Mark 9:2, Luke 9:28. And to deny these plain state- ments of scripture is to be at war with God and make his word of none effect. If Mr. Lawson thinks the Sunday theory is scriptural, why not accept, the challenge of Father En- right, Catholc priest? Who in a lecture given at Hartford, Kan. stat- ed: "Sunday is not the Sabbath. No man dare assert' that it is. I will give one thousand dollars ($1,000) to any man that will prove from the Bible alone, that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep. The obsery- ance of Sunday is solely a law of the Cathelie church." "The Catholic church for over one tousand years before the existence of a Protestant by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday (the seventh day) to Sun- day the first day of the week. The Christian Sabbath is therefore to this day the acknowledged offspring of the Catholic church as espoused by the Holy Ghost without a word of remonstrance from the Protestint world." 'The Cathgllie Mirror, Car- dinal Gibbon's official organ, Sept. 23rd, 1893. Yours respectfully, ~--W. B. LINDSAY. thinks they were gathered for wor-| Awaiting any complications that might develop, gunboats of five nations are shown assembled in the vicinity of Canton, the that the wizardry of radio; already arousing the curiosity of the human race to high pitch, eventually may bring about a universal tongue. Guy E. Tripp, president and chair- man of the board of the Westing- house Electric and Manufacturing Company, recently, expressed this opinion at a dinner of the Maine So- ciety of New York, preferring to be- lieve, however, that Instead of hav- ing to construct an artificial langu- age for the purpose, English would be the new world tongue. e chap who thought the Marseil- laisé was a salad dressing is apt to mistake, Mah Jongg for the chorus. If your bear with the faults of a friend you make them your own. » An angry lover tells himself many es. . 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