SUNDAY-SPORTS AT FEILDING.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 11, 7 December 1878, Page 2

SUNDAY- SPORTS AT FEILDING.

TO TUB BpiTOB. Sib,— l am pleased to, find; "Sab.batli-. . observer"- adopting. a mpre Christ iaix, spirit; iin his, last letter than h« -did..iv the first/ when, he made.an : attack on nie [for. tlie,w»r' I called public attentiop. to a mattejr that ij; : really did nob apprpye, of, ".yia.,* crick^ting^' and m, t.hp, centre of a town-* [ship on. Sunday, j, but for all that I^ object jto ".SftbWth-obserTer's "> method \t *•-' :stricting Sunday amusements. A better, 'way would be substi-. ' tute more suitable, for^a day o/rest thia, ! either cricketing 'of . ,hoi*e-iij»cingi. for suchy . as are not iaflueDC^d/j(J / -'j^nb^tii-;9b's|^ : .'; • Ter's." opinion as to the^ binding character, of thp JewisYi '"Sabbath op all^ mankind. In, replying tq, yqiir correspondenV* views, '.\%^ i bog to take a Scwptural-Tipw of tlie quesi tipn. I Qpntider. that one Terse^ frpin tiio, inspired toJu me is sufficient to proV>. myself .- bright and- " Sabbath'- cjgiwsriier' l entirely 'wrorjg. My. first queijtipiv. wu*. "Epr vdwt reason was the Jewish Sabbath instituted ?". : Takipgihe.Hory Bible. fop. my. guide, I finii,- ... ■■ the reply to my qijestion stated m 'Ofiiiir-l ■ onomy t. : , 15 (chap. 5, vepse ISf &a foliows i. ; " And- reinemßer. that wast a serf ant. iin the land of Egypfe :*Hi**.';*J*"tp^Jj--.-.-thy God brought thee out thence ilirouglv ; a mighty hand- and' a stretched out a«o_;. thcreforo the. Lord thy God comm anded,. . jtheelto keep the Sabbath Day];" The i4tk . Irersp. adds "^hafc.-th^ mjin-serrant and thr.-X maiji-serjrant' mayrei* 'vt. well; as "thp^»'*» : TiiU is the rert«on why the. Jewish dabbath was' first instituted, and the &irij Christiam,.. , exctjpt Jewish conVerts, diA np£ . cotjiidelf. the Jewish Sabbath binding^ <»'n them, but' . : the Jewish, conyerta, to tjie Christian faith. [ observed their national Sibbath, until suc^ T time as they compromised thp question witk^ their Gentile brethren, when Jthey agreed^ to, convert their weekly Christian festifal. . :iuto a Jewish Sabbat li,_ but that changa/ did not take place until, long after th», Apostle. t.o._.the. G^ntije^ had finished^hi^^,. earthly lajbers. I beljeve. in^ keejn'iijj our Su.nday sabred as.a dtiy. of reit'for tha. reason, given* m Peutl V. t 14E--"thafc thy^ . man-servant and thy maid-sejprant mar} rest as w.eU aAt^ou,*^— biit I shall' object to being, threatened with^ flare and< brimsLOna, for taking in.nopenjb recreation, on.. Sunday. I altogether disagree with yonr..corre«pon\ dent's intirpretiation of Christ's teaching. : as. to, the Sabbath being made, for man,- and ncit man for the Sabbath. This was said m" reply to.the t^wis'h. Sabbatarians that held ■ views somewhat similar, to^ those, held br our modern Sabbatarians. In. cpnclusiou Xwill only add that I think there is" sufficient'^ room for difference of opjuiou ou this quejtipn among Christiaps that accept the Biblaas theie rcUJo.of faith, ardt'ora more toler« ant feeling on tiie part of many like " S»b-. biitli-obserTer," -wh,o, think that ereryon^ differing from, them, must b,e. Ravelling Ati\ the bniid crooked road.*'— l wn-, «c., • > jASOMMTHJNi&AKtAN AND SABBA.X|I« , ' " QJBflBBV»B. :\. ■-./-■'•'■'. "|