EVANGELIST FARNSWORTH'S MISSION.

Evening Star, Issue 11684, 17 February 1902, Page 5

EVANGELIST FARNSWORTH'S MISSION.

In the Agricultural Hall yesterday afternoon Pastor Robinson, of Mornington, conducted a Bible study, the aim of which was to show that the controversy between Christ and the Scribes and Pharisees of His time concerning true Sabbath-keeping was identic;tl with the controversy concerning true Sabbath-keeping in otir own time. Mr Robinson produced records showing that within recent years scores of devoted Christ an men, several of them ministers of the Gospel, have been prosecuted, lined, imprisoned, and sentenced to work in the “chain gang” with the worst of criminals for no other crime than sacredly obeying that command which says “Sis days shaft thou labor and do all thy work ; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Cord thy God, in it thou shalt not do any work.” In fho evening Evangelist Farnsworth preached, his subject being: ‘ Which Pay is the Sabbath?’ Taking as h : a text the fourth precept of the Decalogue, as given in Exodus xx., 8-11, Mr Farnsworth began by saying that it was pleasant to know, that he was in harmony with ail other evangelical Christian denominations in the belief that the law of God is eternal and nnExtracts were read from the Presbyterian Confession of Faith, the Wesleyan Discipline, and the Baptist Church Manual, in all of which the eternal and unchangeable character of God’s law is set forth in the strongest language. After dealing with the question of Sabbath observance from the Scriptures, showing that the seventh day is enjoined in the New Testament as well as in the Old, the speaker closed with the following quotation from the pen of Canon Kyton :—‘‘There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. No commandment of God bids us do this or not do that on Sunday. We are absolutely free as far as His law goes. The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands on cxact.y the same footing as the observance of Sunday. . . . Into the rest of Sunday no divine law enters.” It was announced that other phases of the Sabbath question would be presented on Wednesday and Friday evenings of this week.