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it may be sold to the Gentile
for his consumption.
Deut 14:21 says, “Ye shall
not eat of any thing that
dieth of itself: thou shalt
give it unto the stranger that
is in thy gates, that he may
eat it; or thou mayest sell it
unto an alien: for thou art
an holy people unto the
LORD thy God.” Here we
see two sets of law applying
to the same situation.
By drawing an analogy,
we do not break any
Sabbath law when we eat
“outside”. We do not cause
the Gentile restaurateur to
work for us so as to break
the Sabbath Law (which is
unknown to him). So we eat outside with a
pure conscience.
By eating “inside”, our wives, particularly,
have to sweat it out and do we
not then make them break the Sabbath To
be consistent we should work out our Sabbath
like the orthodox Jews. To keep the
Sabbath strictly, they would cook a big pot
before Friday 6.00 p.m., which is the beginning
of the Sabbath. To keep the food
warm for the Sabbath which begins from
Friday 6.00 p.m. and ends Saturday 6.00
p.m. they leave a flicker flame on. They
“Working to earn a
living on the Lord’s
Day for the Gentile
is the same as
working on other
days. Not having a
law, they break no
law.”
eat out of the pot the whole
of Saturday, without lifting
a finger, and without a
chore. For them to eat “inside”
while having to sweat
it out in the kitchen on Saturday
is breaking the law.
How’s that
“The Sabbath was
made for man, and not
man for the Sabbath”
“And it came to pass,
that he went through the
corn fields on the sabbath
day; and his disciples began,
as they went, to pluck
the ears of corn. And the
Pharisees said unto him,
Behold, why do they on the
sabbath day that which is not lawful And
he said unto them, Have ye never read what
David did, when he had need, and was an
hungred, he, and they that were with him
How he went into the house of God in the
days of Abiathar the high priest, and did
eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to
eat but for the priests, and gave also to them
which were with him And he said unto
them, The sabbath was made for man, and
not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son
of man is Lord also of the sabbath” (Mark
2:23-28).
Rev. Dr Timothy Tow
Is It Wrong to Take Public
Transport on the Lord’s Day
THE LORD’S DAY is our Christian
Sabbath. On the principle that we
are to keep the Sabbath rest, we
should not cook nor should we make others
work for us. Therefore some Christians
will not take public transport on the Lord’s
Day. Therefore some would trudge all the
way, sometimes two or three miles, to
church.
On this principle there should be a
curtailment of work on the Lord’s Day.
Shops should close, and as in the case of
Amsterdam which we visited in 1950,
trams stopped running. Today all trams and
buses are running, with the changing of the
times.
Now the Sabbath is made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath. Works of necessity
and humanity are exceptional to the
rule.
Thus, hospitals are open. There are
always emergency cases, accidents, which
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