h feasts always occurred when they fell on the
Sabbath of the Lord. Lev. xxiii: 37, last cl.

BARNABAS AGAINST THE SABBATH.

Barnabas would fain have the world believe that God has made one law which
man could never keep without leading him into bondage. He says, "Sister
Stowe, nor any others of like faith pretends to keep the seventh-day
according to the commandment, that reads, 'thou shalt not do any work.'
Exo. xx: 10. 'Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.' There
stands the command with all its terrible sanctions of thunder and
lightnings. If this command is now in force sister S. and all the rest
must stand condemned at the dread tribunal of God, for they all break that
commandment as much as we who do not pretend to keep it." The speciousness
of B.'s reasoning is a great deal more likely to lead saints into bondage,
than what he has said of sister Stowe. He begins in the very onset to
mislead the mind. He quotes "Let no man go out of his place on the seventh
day," and says, there stands the command with all its terrible sanctions
of thunder and lightnings, and then says sister S. and Br. Bates and all
the rest must stand condemned at the dread tribunal of God, for they all
break that _commandment_. Now I say this is not a commandment, but a
command given to the children of Israel twenty days before they heard that
terrible thunder and lightning at mount Sinai, where the ten commandments
was made known to them by the Almighty God's speaking them all out in an
audible voice, and then writing them with his own finger on tables of
stone. These are all the commandments that God ever gave to man, and they
were as equally binding on the stranger, (the Gentile) that was within
their gates, as on the Jew. Every one can see how difficult it would be
for a man well versed in scripture to remember every direction, or a "thus
sayeth the Lord," for a commandment, especially the millions who cannot
read. They were of that character, of so few words, that God directed them
to "bind them for a sign upon their hands, and they shall be as a frontlet
between thine eyes," ("that the Lord's law may be in thy _mouth_." Exo.
xiii: 9,) "and thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on
thy gates." Num. xv: 38-40; Deut. vi: 8, 9. This, God's code of Laws was
put into the Ark. Deut. x: 5. And he says that "one law shall be to him
that is home born and to the stranger that sojourneth with you." Exo. xii:
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