Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

49~ "'fJH: GAMBLE Dt~COVERY." [May
has, by the la.w of the lauds which it rules, made the Sunday
I lit! Lnrd'tc day: and if he wishes to cope for a 1i velihood and a
little more, he finds himself cheated out of the possibility of
keeping the Seventh-day holy. Therefore,tl do not doubt that
Rabbi Hirsch is willing for Rev. Mr Gamble to do him some
good service in the furtherance of his well-motived mission,
and that he lets him-the Discoverer in the theological world,
-have a diplomatic nod. But, in truth, no Rabbi of that great
theological center bas committed himself to the Rev. Gamble'•
wild theory.
If it suits their selfiah purposes to do so, to what extremes will
the men ot the Church not go, and, according to impartial
.history, to what extremes did they not go, in order to claim a
reason from the Bible for the Rupport of absurdities and
cruelties? Disconnected quotations about Sabbath and
Seventh day; aye, diatorted Bible translations, are given to
prove-wha.t? tiuppositions for wa.nt of fa.cts.
I find the task too tedious to take up all of Mr. Gamble's
supposed reasons and must be content to consider the follow­
ing:-
The Rev. Mr. Gamble claims, and justly so, that we are not
in possession of a.ny calendar that gives us information concerning
the Sabbath-days or nther days befot·e the time of the
Christian era, and he has supplied us with one of his own great
geniuR,-" copy-l'ight appli(>(l for.'' Well, if we tamely believe
the men of hig-lu~r criticit~m, of whom Rev. Mr. Gamble seems
to be one, anti ask no questions, their discoveries go much
further than the one in question ; for, according to them, we
have no Mtu·e hiRtorical record of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
Mnst>R, ,Jnshna, etc .• or of .Jesus.
Since the time nf ,JoRhna, we find it recorded in the Bible
"that the lRra .. liteR were zealuus of keeping all the laws that
God gave them thmngh His servant Moses," and mainly so in
keeping the Se\·enth day as the Sabbath, which was so strictly
kept that a man was dtnuea to death who was found gathering
wood on stwh a day. The Manna fell on the sixth day in
double measure, so as to enable the lRraelites to observe the
Seventh as the Sabbath day. God, on Mount Sinai, never
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