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science's admi_si0n of tile impos_ihilify of an- Can it be that powers so noble, so _lof|y and P:lr;idi_(,?' l:in;dly, "in my Fatht,r's httu_e are rrarvtl on Abib n. _ratithm thai it wa_ a _abnlhiliation;
are all proofs of tbe univer._al belief calxacious are d_igt_ed just to begin to unfold manv m:ut_iouL,; if it were nutso I wtJtd,/ ha_t. b;_llt day, u would proye a violation of the sahof
immortalitY, themselves on _arth'and then tlike a bubble burst- I_)h] you.. I go in prelxare a place'[or you. And bath law. "in it thou shalt not dn any work."
There is a world which no-one can explain. Jag on tile bosom of the sea disappear forever? il ] _o and prepare it place for you. I will come This work w,x_ what tile Lord c(,mmanded, anti
t_ence there must be a God. God anti immqrtality Ha_, infinite Wisdom and Power. created an in- aL_aln and receive you unto myself: th;tt wbere nut the ordinary .occupation of man's choice.
are it_zeparablit. Tberefore," immortality is a " tell_genee so highly endowed merely [o flutter I am, there ye may "be also," • "Tbe priests in the temple profane tire sabbath
reality. The instinct o? tile soizl testifies to this. a brief moment on Lhe surface of the.earth and . . " day [in toe labor of offerin_ sacrifices], and are
and God the autbor of both the soul and tbe in- then sink back into nonentity? Can we suppose blameless" (Matt. :2:5L and the iaboi: Of rearstinct
has _Tevealed ibis to man both by nature that .dll that Ires ever been great anti maj_tic THE PIRST SABBATH I_AY OF", THE .intz the tahornncle and placing its furnlsidngs in
and ttoZy Writ.. in the httman soul has pa_ed into eternal un- YEAR 2"OF THE EXODUS order t_as that wi_ich the Lord commanded,
The soul is immortal because it is incorporeal, consciuusnes._? Reason anti every ennobling hope By R_:v. H. G. Cow^re llut, again says the objector, .:_lthouglt the
There arc two kinds of existence: one corn- within us and every attribute o[ God above us . _ IIE Children of Israel were" one year I shewbread was to he placed on the table every
and line other simple, the forn'ter sub- forbid tile hylmthesis that this lofty nature is / lackim, two weeks; ou_ of Egypt_ and hat! sabbath day, yet-the first pMcblg migbi have oc-
.L come to Abib x of the year 2 o[ tht,
oct to'changei tbe latter unchangeable, one per- born today to perish forever iotnorrow. Exodus. t_r tbt first day ot_ tile tirst month of curred on some other day_ when everytbing was
ceptible to-sense, the Other comprehended by Ite_r tl_e af_beted haint ofUz say, "] know the second year lifter their departure from tbe reacly for it, then the practice was continued on
nxind alone; one visihle, the other invisible, rny Redeemer liveth, and that lie shall stand at the s_d_batb ria)'s, But to cdntinue" is to keep
soul employs bodily sense it is tmnfused, the latti:r day upon the eartll" arld though after land of handatte, They were still in tile wihler-
' ne_ of Sinai. It had been a most eventful year Iin doinm that whicil _,s done'before, not to bewhen
it.abstracts itself from lhe body it attains my skin ',%'orms destroy this body, yet in my _ tdn sotnething flew. "Without inter_ption,"
-, f for them. h_,ving witnessed their deliverm_ce
to knowlerlge which is uncompoLInded, unchattee- flesh shall I see God;whom [ shall see for mysel , lrom Egypt; .tbei.r progres_ tbroutdl .tbe wilder- "unceasimL" "uninterropt,ed succession." "conable
and immortaL' Therefore. the soul beiug and mune eyeff ._hall behold, and not another: neS._ unto Sinai. Iflo giving,of tile law, tbe send_ _tant succession." are some of tbe definitions of
utlcofnpoui_ded, illcorporeal and invisible nlust tltou_h nly reins be consumed within ate." ing of the manna ant] ot er .gracious provision tile word ++continue" apd its derivative._. _n this
be indis.soluble--that is, immortal, A_ain the ]aluzuaLre of the s,wcet sin_er of for their needs, .and the i_relxarationa for' tile ease tbere" was an tinintcrrupted succcf_ivn of
Furthermore, the soul is intmortal because it israel, "My sfren_th and my heart fafletl_; bul building nl tbe tabernacle anti its furnishings placing the slfewbread on the table on the sob.
fins ,an Jndepen_lent power of sell motion--that God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for the proper worship and _rvice" nf God. hallo from tire mbhath of Abib _, not from the
is, it Iias self-activi.ty and self-deternlination. No forever;" "My Aesir also shall r_t 'iOn hope. "['he Aaronic priestllood had been *lpl_ointed day after tire sabbath, or some other day,
arrangement of matter or confit_uraton of body For thou.wilt not leave my _otd in bel| neither ' and consecrated, the .offerio_ and sacrifice,6 But we art' not confined to tile dictionary for
can be conceived'as the originator of Iree anti wilt thou suffer tl{ine Holy One to see corrup- provided for, and the altars and other equip- proof that Abib _ of the year,2of the Exod_
voluntary movement. That wiflcb deriyes its tion. Thou w t _lmw' me the path of |il_e; its ment built, tngethe 3- with the tabernacle wlflch was a sabbath day, for tbero is historical proof
from something else may cease to move thy presence is fulm'_s of joy,; at thy right hand wasto enclose all and be tbe place where God of tile mdst cnnvincing k_jtd tbat God did not
and peri._lb but tbat wbicb is self-moved n6ver there are pleasures for evermore." x " shouhi meet witb 'tits people. [dan to have His work don_ on "'any day." A
ceases to be active andis the cause of motion Just as fiature springs forth from death into ' " t t. notah/e day had come, when the tabernacle reference to Exodus 4o:x-33 will show -that
to all other things that are moved. Whatever life crying, "This.mortal. shall put on immof was to be reared ull anti all'its furnishings ]}ut everything x_as done by lkiost.-_ on that day by
is continually active is immortal. This self- tality," in ttie bud ng flowersl spr glue.gram, in their proper places, Among the articles of a preordaln'ed plan, that nothing was left to
activit# ,;g the very e._ence and true notion of the and leafltm tret_, so is th# soul in its Ioltglngs, as-. furniture plat'ed in tire taherhacle was ,a table chance or arrangemel_t 'by an afterthought," but
soul. Heine thus essentially'causative it partakes plratJm_s', and'hope% answenng tile call of Him made of Acacia. wood anti covered with gold, that every detail of'the work had been carefl/fly
tbe nature of a -"l_rinciplc" and it is tbe nature who said, "Whosoever believeth in me sball never as were all its'attachments, and its dlshesof pure planned beforcband by God. Moses had been
o[ a principle to cxcludc its contrary_ Thai die." gohi; this table Was Iflaeed in tim north sid6 specially enjoined by God_ "And look that thou
wldch is t____entially self-active can never ct._se tlear tbe" apbstle _ay, "For we know that' of tbe tabernacle, in the holy place, anti its use make them after their pattern, which was showed
to be active; then tbat which is tbe tatuse o[ if cur earthly bouse'of this tabernacle were dis- was to bold theshewbroad ,_,Izich was placed upon thee in the mount" (Exodus a5:4o), and the
motion and chango cannOt be extinguished bY solved, we have. a building of God. an houst it cvnr_ Sabbath day. The shewbre;_d was te rec6rd of the completed work is, "Thins "did
tbe change called "death," not made with hands, eternal in the heavehs.," be the portion of Aaron'and bis sons.' the priests, Moses: according fo nil that the Lord command-
If tbe soul can conceive an immbrt_ility it "For to me to llve Ls Christ and to die Is gun, _ who wereto eat. it in the holy place. Now _ill ed him, so did'he" (Exodus 40: x6] And sevce
cannot be less tban immortal. If by its '.'cry "f am no_ ready Io be offered, and the timg of this. wag done by God's. eomrnalld, as may be times inthe record of the work of that day, it
nature it has hopes thgt will.not be bounded by my ¢leparture is at band. I bare fought a _ood seen by'_ reference to Exodus 4o:t-33, The is ._aid tbat it was done "as tbe Lord c'ommand.
the _n_ve and desires and Iongtngs that grasp fight, I bare kept the faith; henceforth there is tabernacle _vas reared "up that day, and all its ed Moses," and this inctudes the placing of tbe
eternity, its' nalure anddestiny must correspond, . laid up for me a crown of rigbteousne_.s, which furnishings placed in it, including the table and _hewhread upon the table, which t'dds to be "set
Tile utmost t_apaeily o1 the soul has never yet the Lord, tile righteoUS judge, shall give me at the. shewbread placed UlmU it. The making oI in order before the Lord nontinually every sobbeen
tested on earth Philosophy bus spread tha_ day; al_d not to me ol/ly, hilt uzlto aft lhem tli_ table is. described in Exodus _5: _3-3o, and batil."
open her wldc tlth|s far the. stage of the human also that love his ai_peariog." - tile making of the sitewbread the time and man- But what is tile evidential value of Abib r as
soul. The dcep mysteries.of nature have beet_ Christ says, "Fear nol them which kill the [ nor of its placing on the table fn Leviticus _4:8', n sabhatb day? It is asign hoard showing the
explored. The sublime doctrines uf revelathm if'ply, _ _ re n,t abe Io kill lhe soull but 9, "Every sabbath lie shall set it in order before x_av through the sabbaths of the year, being the
surveyed and the rich pronlise._ ul ,_i_ eodle._* rat lei"ft_ar tunl .which ts abl e tn destroy both tbe Lard continually." This marked Abth t of first of fifty-two regular, weekly sabbaths. The
lif,_ h;we been grit_ped by the soul :t_ the. pledge _mfl and hody'iv hrtl?' To the dyln_ th ef o_ i1 the year _-of the Exodus as._ Sabbatlt day. seventh da_: of the week was the sabbath, but
of an undying h_ope trod iL blissful immorlality, tire cross, "This day shalt thou hg"with mt in But, says an objector, if the tabernacle was being on u fixed date iu the mm_th the week was