A New Way to Spend the Sabbath.
By Uriah Smith
We have received through the mail, a little pamphlet entitled “Sabbatism,” by M. M. Eshelman, which only serves to show the gross misapprehension, not to say criminal ignorance, which still reigns over the minds of men on this subject. On the last page of the cover, “a week’s work” is laid out, and the work assigned to “Saturday” is this:— “Prove by the Bible that the disciples of Christ are required to observe any of the sanctified days of the law, because not forbidden in express terms in the gospel. Prove also that Christ honored this day after his resurrection, and that he did not honor the first day of the week.” The intent of this paragraph evidently is that men should take this time to prove that the Sabbath of the commandment is not now of force, and that Christ in its stead honored the first day of the week. Could effrontery to this holy institution go farther than to suggest such a manner in which to spend its sacred hours. We point all who are animated by this spirit to these words of Christ, “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of Heaven,” and bid them beware what they do.