SABBATH DAY OBSERVANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 282, 29 November 1888, Page 2

SABBATH DAY OBSERVANCE.

(To the- Editor.)

Sjk,— Tn your issue of Mondayeveniugbhei'o appears a letter over the s?i<;nature, " An Old Native," re Mr Goldstein's remarks upon Mr Hill's position on the subject which heads this letter. "An Old Native places several propositions in objection fco Mr Goldstein's position. To my mind it is a subject that if a little reason was used (by those who have so much to say upon the Sabbath observance, and very little of the observance in themselves) we should not have so much controversy. Christiaus do not keep the Christian Sunday as Sabbath. All the world over they keep the day preceding it. The law, called the ten commandments, was given to a special people (the Israelites) when in existence as a body for their special guidance and instruction, which is shown-by the preface of those laws, viz., "lam the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egrypt and out of the house of bondage. Thou .shalt have no other £ods but me, etc." And the Jew of the present day is not under the law because he has no national existence, the Jews having been scattered over all the nations .of tne earbh ; and, like any other

nation or people, when they cease to be | a nation or people, and are incorporated into any other people, the laws under which they were governed cease to be in operation.. It is also impossible for the Jew to keep the law without national existence, which they will obtain before the coming of the Messiah. For it is only blind men who cannot see that the Jews, as we know' him and as we find him, in all nations ot the earth, are the chosen people of God, irrespective of " Anglo-Israelite."—l am, etc., J. T. B. Dines.