n is true, it follows that Moses is the sole author of
the sacrificial system of blood, without which there was no remission, and
thus the ancient remedial scheme falls, being without divine sanction. But
the Lord claims all that our friends hand over to Moses. The following
phrases are uttered with reference to the priests and other things: "My
priest," "My sacrifice," "Mine altar," "Mine offering," 1st Samuel, ii,
27-29; "The Lord's pass-over," Exodus, xii, 11; "The feasts of the Lord,"
Lev. xxiii; "My sanctuary and my Sabbaths," Ezekiel, xxiii, 38. The manner
in which Sabbatarians emphasize the phrase "My Sabbath," and "My holy
day," is well calculated to mislead the unsuspecting, but those who are
schooled in biblical literature will regard it as mere _rant_, _cheap
theology_, _mere display_! All that Moses gave, as law, was from the Lord,
_was His_. "The Lord came down upon Sinai, and spake to them from heaven,
and gave them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and
commandments, and made known to them His holy Sabbath, and commanded
precepts, statutes and laws, by the hand of His servant Moses." Nehemiah,
ix, 13, 14.

The seventh-day Sabbath was not given to the Gentile world. It would
require just as plain and positive legislation to bind it upon us as it
did to establish it in Israel. It was a sign between God and the Hebrews.
Ezek. xxxi, 13-18. "Moreover, also, I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign
between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that doth
sanctify them." If there are any Gentile Christians upon the earth who
think it is essential to know that it was the Lord that sanctified the
children of Israel, set them apart from the surrounding nations, I would
say to such, It is sufficient to your salvation that you know the Lord, as
manifested in the flesh in the person of Christ Jesus, and that you love
and obey him. I can not see that the seventh-day Sabbath, as a sign upon a
Gentile, would tell the truth, for the Lord never sanctified the Gentiles
in the sense of setting them apart from the surrounding nations. Again, if
our friends could succeed in making it universal, it would _cease to be a
sign_. It was a national badge, or sign, between God and the Hebrews. Its
object was to keep in their memory that which was true of them _alone_.
"Remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord
thy God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand and a stretched out
ar