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The members of the class thought it well that the answers should be collated and printed, and accordingly this is done. Toronto, June, 1896 , '-^Jp-' WHY AND HOW THE LORD'S DAY SHOULD BE OBSERVED. WHY? !•— It is God's great command, not intended for the Jews alone, as it was at the Creation given to all the world. 2.— Because He who is above all and whose day It is commanded it. 3. — He enforced His command by Himself resting the seventh period of time. 4.— He that is holy hath commanded it If we love Hun, we will endeavor to keep His commandments. 5;— He gave His special blessing to those who sanctified this day. Isaiah Iviii. 13, 14. 6.— He never abrogated this great command, nor sought in any way to limit it. Z"T^x7^^ °"^ °^ '^^ ^""^^^ fundamental principles on which He created and peopled the world, and His creatures have no right to abrogate this condition. 8.— It is one of the three institutions left when all else seemed lost by Adam's fall. These Sundays, "thread- ed together on time's string," unite the Garden of Eden with the City of the New Jerusalem. 9— As the command was given with absolute dis- tinctness and without limitation, in order to the repeal of such a law, the repeal must be found expressed with equal clearness as the command, and this is absolutely wanting. The command therefore still stands 10.— This day of rest was intended as a type of the eterna' rest— as a reminder to the soul— as an oppor- tunity for preparation— as a season to recall man from the all-absorbing things of time— as a breathing spell to enable the soul to look up and learn the thoughts and language of heaven ; and therefore was intended by tlie beneficent Creator for all His creatures in all parts of His world and at all periods of its history. II.— As the rainbow was given to us as a sign or type, so this day is given as God's witness of the £reater day of rest in the home that He is preparing for His people. (Hebrews iv. 9-1 1.) "There remaineth there- fore a rest (or keeping of the Sabbath) to the people of God." Ihis IS God's royal gift to mankind. It is a type and a preparation. This is the world's Magna Charta. This is the day on wliich it is to be realized that a man has a soul as well as a body, and that it needs food, and that God has given, not only the natural nourishment of the soul, but also the time or occasion for feeding it. 12. — As a Christian land we are bound to take heed to the commands of our King, and if we do not do so we are guilty of treason, and forfeit the privileges of citizenship. 13.— The opinions of man do not affect the truth, and the truth is, no matter what man may say or think' that the day belongs to God, and He wants man to keen It holy. ^ 14.— When those in authority, in so called Christian lands, have mterfered with the setting apart of this seventh portion of time, as a century ago in France, misery, rebellion, and bloodshed have followed ; and where the sanctity of the day has been lightly esteemed there has followed a deterioration in morals and manly character, as in Spain, Italy, etc. In this connection the following remarkable statement recently appeared in the Paris newspaper " LaPresse ": " England owes much of her energy and character to the religious keeping of Sun- day. Why cannot France follow her, as the Sabbath was made for all men, and we need its blessing?" 15.— It is a universal need in order to the full growth of the complete man and woman. All admit ' r r the need of physical and mental exercise and the need «or setting apart times for such exercise; of how much more need is there to set apart regularly a time for the exercise of the ever-living soul ! , 1 6.— Because natural laws which govern the physical universe say w.th a voice of authority that rest is abso- lutely essential to perfect health. frr. '7;— '^his command being universal, when those trom other lands come in to sojourn with us and form part of the community they are bound to conform to the foundation rules on which such commonwealth builds, and which are considered by its founders to be necessary for its continued existence. They must sub- mit to the rule, " Salus populi, lex suprema." 1 8.— Those who care not for the command of God and have no regard for the soul, must bear in mind that physically and mentally man stands in need of this aay. 1 he body and the mind are tired out. The con- tmued strain from Sunday morning to Saturday night is ^o great. The wave of strength each day fails a little. 1 he powers decline, and there is needed, besides the night s rest, the rest of the seventh day to enable the wearied body to recuperate and to supplement the nightly rest, which is insufficient. . {a) A physician in New York State has stated recently that m two years, he treated 2,500 cases from one store in the cL thl direct result of nervous strain arising from the long hours of work fnr tlllV^ "^'-^il^'iy man recently said, referring to his employment for the seven days m the week : " Our work fc brutalizing one " of thiJdly of "elf '"''^''' ''"''°"' ""'"''" ^' ' '^"f°^"^' '^' ""J . {c) Sir William Blackstone says : " The observance of one dav ch^fSiTuln'.^"^'^''^ ^^-'" '° ^ '^^^^' --'^-'l -X - •'ItlfthecoTo^fo^rcrSor^'^^ "^'"^^'^"''y' ^^>'^ °^ Sunday : n,nr ^'^ J^^ ^^''' ^\ ^^ ^o^ertson, of Brighton, says : " I am more and more sure by experience that the reason for the obse^ Ta^ur'e The^"o"'r -/h'^ '^^^Pinthe everlasting necessities of hum/n rhTfi'elitroft'JoSrvTncr'-""'"- '' ''^"^" '" ^^°f'°"- »° (/) Dr. Ryle, the Bishop of Liverpool, whose wei^htv v/ords are received with marked approval by so many, sa^s?" From 5 Genesis down to Kevelaiion, I find the day pul.jished, republished endorsed, and san ctioned, and never rei-calcd. " '«^P"'^"*lie''. c k/4'^''? learned Dr. Horsley affirms that "the use of the Sabbath as it began will end only with the world itsdf " 1fl.fJi*f '^^.'^j^"- ^'- !>• .^^rvirice says: "An institution which has lasted for eighteen centuries in the most civilized parts of the'unl verse, which has been preserved amidst all differe'nces of cJftom, languages, and opinions, races and churches that have been lay nc? and anathematizing each other, cannot rest upon the doubtfu con- struction of one passage or of twenty." ""udwui con- ([) Mr. Gladstone says: "It seems to m^ unouestiombl*. hat the observance of Sunday rest has taken deTp re"",' bo h in he convictions and the habits of the immense majority of my cointrv! men If u appears to many of them a neces.iiyVspi^ituaTnd Chr,sti.-,n life, others not less numerous defend it with equal enercv as a social necessity. The working class is extremely je.llous "f U and IS opposec not merely to its avowed abolition, b u^o wha^eve^ might ind.rectly tend to that result. Personali;, I have al™ endeavored, as far as ci.cumstances have allowed, to exercise thS privilege ; and now, nearly at the end of a laborious pubic career of nearly fifty-seven years. I atuibute in great part to that Se the prolongation of my life and the preservation of the faculties I may s ill possess. As regards the masses, the question is sS more important ; it is the popular (juestion par exce/Lue." '"""^°'« <;nl,Kl-{i! V°''' ^^^^'^'^""^r'el'l. in paying an eloquent tribute to the Sabl a h, fro.r his seat in the Mouse of Lords, said : " Of all divine institutions he most divine is that which secures a d.iy of rest for man. hold it to be the most valuable blessing ever conceded to man. It is the corner-stone of civilization, and its removal micht ^;''^l^f^^<^^ %h^^hh oi the peopl. . .'. It (the op ning of the National Museums on Sunday) is a great change, and those who thlThV"^ ' "'T'"' "'"^ •' ^^°"''' be limited to^^ the proposarof the noble baron to open museums will find they are mistaken." 19.— The remfidy for many of the mental and physical wrecks found in our asylums, gaols, and poor- houses IS a full Sabbath rightly used. The breach of the fourth commandment on the part of the employer looi,ens the respect of the employee as to all other com- mandments, and, if his employer causes him to break the fourth, he has but little ground of complaint if the ernployee replies by breaking the sixth and the eighth. He begets a spirit of lawlessness ; the result of which he IS sure to feel. This day rightly spent begets energy aiid cheerfulness. It is the keynote to the whole week On the working days you get better work, and there is no loss suffered by this weekly rest, but the contrary. Ihis appears to be the universal experience of those who 6 have spent muca tmie m investisatin« the results of a broken and a kept seventh day. This h the day which teaches the laborer that he is . man. It is tlfe royal mheritanoo of those disherited from the wealth of the Til ' ^T f°J:/"'-^'''-''-'"« Sunday observance. full. I "' '•*'*? ? '^^7 ; and it is an interesting fac menced by tha noble monarch w.th the moral law of the Icn Commandments; and to this day the Decalogue ovlThfrn"'^" ''"""'"" '^^"f^reat Britain, and, what- the e can be no doubt that they have exerted a grea Kat oull>"n''^'"^' '".•'!?'^rJ^ ^"""« many centuries hat public opinion which still does so much to protect the masses of the people in the enjoyment of the day of n y'~\ '^^''^^'■ "'''^^ ^^'^ d^y continued from the Creation to be distinctly observed down to the time of the giving of the Ten Commandments. Before the Ten Com vv!"^r" A IT ^''? ^'' ^'''^'''^''' statement in Exodus VnrPu K "^J'V^"^ ""^° '^^^> This is that 'vl.id, thC Lord hath said, To-morrow is the rest of the holy sab bath unto the Lord : bake that which ye will bake o day and seethe that ye will seethe ; and that which ren'^ineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning." See also Genesis vii. 4, 10; viii, xo. 12; i. ,0. From these Sn on^'^ ''' conclusively inferred that the seventh CcT.rl ;'""' '"' T'' ''^"^ '^^""^^'^^d according to Law. ''^"'"""^ "I^ '° ^he period of the giving of the 22.— When the law was given to God's people soe- cially set apart by Him to receive and presTve il, the fourti, was not given as a new command, but His people .«■ at^^TP'^ command is found in the " Ten Words " ot ceremonial or a passing regulation, but it is found where the whole and lasting duty of man to God and 7 man tc man is found ; and there is therefore no more reason to conclude that this command is at an end than that the law as to obedience to parents, theft, or murder is no longer in force. 24. — If I break the sixth commandment, I shall be hanged ; if I break ihe eighth coirmandment, I shall be sent to goal. Why is the breaking of the fourth com- mandment to go unpunished ? 25- — Ihis is one of the commandmentr. that was written with the finger of God, not like the rules and regulations which may be considered transitory. 26. — The law of the Sabbath was then laid down fully and cogently. Six days of labor were enforced and the seventh was to be a Sabbath for the master, the child, the servant, the cattle, and the stranger. It is for all the inhabitants, and if people come into the land, whether Italian, French, Chinese, Japanese, heathen or infidel, they must conform to this law. (Read carefully Exodus XX. 8-1 1, and Deuteronomy v, 15.) 27- — This command is surely exceeding broad. A weekly reminder that He is our creator, the Lord of the universe, our Redeemer, and has consequent demands upon us which He is at liberty to enforce 28. — This, like a thermometer, gauged the nation. When observed, the land was prosperous ; when broken, the people were carried into captivity by compulsion' the land had rest, and national life fell down to zero. 29. — A great mistake is made in concluding that our blessed Lord interfered with the sanctity of the day. (a) He simply sought to remove the burdens imposed by the Rabbis, whereby the whole spirit and intent of the command was lost. (h) He cleared away the childish absurdities introduced by the Pharisees— gargling your throat, a work ; nails in your boots, a bur- den ; and a thousand suchjike traditions, {c) In His teaching His command clearly limited the legiti- mate uses of the day to works of necessity and mercy, and this teaching He emphatically enforced, for, as His custom was, He was found m the synagogue on the seventh day, and when the teaching there was ever He was in the midst of the multitude still teaching and healing. _ (' P''^'"" ^ec. or Christian Sabbath and kt'ii'^ "V"^ "'^^'^ '' "^'^ Lord's day, by abstaining from Ll| secular labor Tnd'w' ,'° ''^''S'""^ P"'P°^'^ devout observance of a'uhe mean^ of " "' ^^^^^^^'ions. ^Y the lie, and by preparation for that I,, ^L^f*""'' ^'■"^' P"''^'^ and pub- of God." ''"^^"O" 'or that rest that remameth for the people clear^l^ementi'Sin?"?-^^'?" °^^^"^''^ '^'^^^ -'-^de equally Conference dec a :r ha? Sa^Ltr^h'"' ^"^J'^^'" The G?n3 elevates our conceotion rf ,K ^- °^'"''""" "Honors God, higher nature anSnJeds and ad'v^n'^"';.^ °^ "^^"' ^'"Phasizes hi human life." ' ^""^ advances the temporal well-being of bicyde" ridinf ;■;: Su^tr'^" u;^^sslr^"^^H ''"'-^ ^^--t Sabbath funerals, travellincr in r,M ' ™''"^'^>'and society parades, except in cases oi r^::^ ZS:^^'£-^^:^^;j^c.s, of the Salb'X W ' a1lTay'trs£'"h '".' ^>'^'^""^'''= ^"^"^'i- that the rights of conscience and fl^!T^°'' companies, and insist that a united effort be naugurafedbfihe Ch'-^^ ^^H" '^^"^"'^ our land to enforce the law aSt L Christian Churches of A continuous and united endefvorL .1'' P°'''J^"' organizations, and people should be made to rr^? ^^ P^" °^ *»" «" '"■"inters this direction, so thauSnter°sts of r'/''°."Sx.P"^''^ °P'"'°" '" be made subservient to thSfnfert.l'i ^?'^- "'' '^^"^^ "^^V "ot commerce." interests and claims of business and succeIs':ttentng"h"oppEo1 '° ^^' ^- 'he of Toronto, and their ^faction fn '^ ''r'' "^'^ '" "^^ '^ity the Sunday' is properly observed? ^^^^"I'^l'ng in a city where "^lih^P— '*>'"-^-.?- 'HW ftgM^I W^ J m WnjLtMa (e) The Congregational Union declared : " That this Union desires to express its regret at the tendency of city and other rail- way corporations, as well as private individuals, to encroach upon the sanctity of the Sabbath ; and also to place on record our high appreciation of and sympathy with all efforts to prevent, by all lawful means, its violation." ^ ^ »*^ We are threatened with the forfeiture of this splen- did franchise, the annulment of an ancient charter, intended at all times for all mankind ; and it is time that we bestir ourselves. It is sought to bring the matter down to the low level. "Will it pay?" instead of the only true basis, "Is it right?" Much is said about the right of the minority. It is high time that the rights of the majority be considered. Who demands the repeal of this charter ? It comes chiefly from three souices : (a) From greed, money-getters, worshippers of the image of gold, who substitute gain for godliness, (d) Self-interest, pleasure lovers and pleasure seekers, (c) The avowed enemies of our Christian religion, numerically small, but very loud- mouthed. Many of these three classes are prepared to expend money to obtain the complete secularization of day, in order to increase their gains and their the pleasures. We have attacks made on all hands. Railways- steam and street—steamers, excursions, beer and pleasure gardens, bands, Sunday and large Saturday evening papers, Sunday funerals, parades, theatres, telephones, telegraphs, post offices, discussions on prohibition pr