Show THE TWIN RELIC SOUTHERN UTAH April 2 lSsJ S Editors Herald One of the chief reasons why this relic should be wiped oub is I because it is seeking to engraft on the tree of Christianity a bitter i branch of the tree Judaic So say the opposers But the strictest of the sect of Sabbatarians are for their extreme and fanatical ideas willing that the twig from the Judaic sabbatical tree shall be grafted on the tree of christianitybut in thefi way I The Savior eliminated the idea of the Sabbath as he understood it in I Mark ii 27 which elimination should be a sufficient rebuke for the strictest sect of the hypocrites of today I The seventh day was to be a day of rest no matter in what honorable honor-able virtuous way you choose to enjoy that rest No special syna gogue day It has been argued by some political economist that one day in fourteen would do or perhaps no day at all but the ex experience of demonstration has produced this result that the divine economy was the best producing the most happyfy ing results to man anl beast a seventh day of rest If the polygamous grapes are sour and the childrens teeth at this day are set on edge because thereof are they sweetened by the extreme juice of the enforcement of a rigid observance of a Jewish Sabbath as I to pains and penalties especially when we consider the Lord of the Sabbath rebuked those who scorned his helpful hand on the Sabbath A 5 u unjr f UAJrhere is nothing to be enjoyed fostered or encouraged but what can be reasonably so done within the purview of the gospel The seventh day of rest is typical of the There is sweet rest in the dear Bye and By The summer vacation of pastor student or clerk is provocative provocat-ive of rest and renewed energies on return to his employment The enjoymeqt of that rest must be to be thesinegunoon according to his peculiar ideas of rest or change Some delight therein as Isaak Walton I Wal-ton or a Nimrod some in the majestic scenery of our canyons or in the days of dalliace with wife and children whose prattle or embrace em-brace six days of arduous toll early and late precluded his enjoying in easy slipper and loose fitting apparel The hermit or the deep cloistered nun provoke only pity from God or man The zeal of today is to clotheHiin and religion with the almost barbaric bar-baric grandeur and awe of the mystic mys-tic pastwhile the advent of his Son gives us the indearing appellation of father as our key word It is the mysterious incomprehensible incompre-hensible creeds of today that rob Him of millions of consistant worshipers wor-shipers and make the one grain of wit though hammered by Ingersoll into a sheet of empty platitudes relishable The infidel truly as such is scarce it is the austerity of the modern pharisee that makes the thinker disgusted The feamaritan of today stands as much approved by him as the phy iacteried bad priest ot today is dis pised The painting of sepulchres of dead prophets is as much the business busi-ness of a certain class of men today as of yore and equally as meritorious meritori-ous The eye for an eyeor the stand thou aside or the intermediary intermedi-ary of the past were buried with him of Galilee and that to resurrect it would be barbaric act No where did he condemn the marriage institutions of the Jews or institute another form but he did condemn the pious frauds of his day who boasted they had Abraham to 5 their father and consequently the present whether celibates or benedicts The spasms of tday like our recent blizzard are to tear up not to beautify but to destroy The ancient mariner has it He that prayeth best loveth best All things both great and small For the dear Lord who loveth us He made and loveth all The mariner in his S rhime was I right for it is hard to say at thereat the-reat finality what shall be the judgment The rich man was doubtless amazed to see from his tormenting depths the poor Lazarus so wonderfully wonder-fully advanced No hymned voice in praise struck I the martyr when in Carthage Jail more sympathetically the one APoorWayfaringMan of Grief its deeds of charity enumerated therein found an echo in his large heartfor his creed was the brotherhood of man In my travels through Utah 1 see I think a very fair approach to this for in many of the towns and villages I see the churches of the sects of the day nestle closely to the Mormon Tabernacle and are undisturbed in worship The standard stand-ard erected by poor Nazarene is immeasurably im-measurably beyond the adoption of many of us to day we follow at a distance perhaps this distance lends enchantment Whether a tithe or all of the divine di-vine rule will be an accomplished fact time must tell Certainly narrow nar-row bigoted coerceive distructive legislation will never make us in love with the antiquated now ex plotting creeds of the dimly lighted past The dawn of a brighter day is ours The first btby peaks are peeping From under tbe bed clothes of snow 71 Yore SABBATARIAN |