Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-05-21

yIction of error upon its face; for it is
impossible that the equinox should have
/ fallen IN that year, or in that century, In
Apri! at all; there bein. in that century
but seven days difference in the STYLES. II
Alr. Akers meant Q. s, as | presume he
did, that being the style he usually follow
ed, and meant that the 22d of March O. 5
was the time of the equinox, he missed
his calculation of six days And here |
viii take occasion to say, that the equinox
has not fallen, in any style, or in any CEN
tury on the Goth of April, as jackson said,
since b c. $500,
3. Now let Us see how Mr.. Akers time
for the exodus corresponds with the Bible
account of the falling of tle mamma In
the sixteenth chapter of Exodus we read
that "On the fifteenth day of the second
month after their departing out of the
land Of Egypt" they ''came unto the will
derness OF SIN, This was at the time of
the next full moon after the exodus and
If the one at the time of the exodus fell on
a Saturday, as Mr. Akers has proved" it
did, the next would of course fall on Sun
day; for the thirteth day after any Satur-
day, is Snn9ay.--And, ''at even, the same
day. the quails came mp, and covered the
camp; and in the morning the dew" the
mamma, lay round about the host. =
And it came to pass, that on the sixth
oay they gathered twice as much bread.
This is that which the Lord hath said
Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath
unto the Lord Exodus, 10th, % %
"To-morrow,' the day after the sixth,
was ''the rest Of the holy Sabbath unto the
Lord. Now when was the sixteenth day
reckoned from? Was it reckoned from
~ r IL A.
first day Of the week, the day the quails
came into the camp? 1t could not be
from the first falling Of the mamma, If the
eXode commenced on the Jewish Sabbath,
Saturday, as Mr.. Akers said it did, and if
so. the quals which came into the camp
on the evening Of the thil tieth day there
after must have come in on Sunday, and
the mamma which was found the next
morning must have been found on Mon
day morning; and so on Friday the sixth
day of the week, the day of the prepara-
ton, they gethered twice as much bread" a"
so the sixth day spoken of in the Bible
must have been the sixth day of the week,
Friday; and the seventh day, or Sabbath,
must have been Saturday, the 24th day of
April \. S, or the 18th O. ). which the
Dominica letters show to be correct and
was the first Sabbath ever observed by
man, so far as we have any record. But
Mr.. Alers says, p. 80, divide the III 945
days by seven, the number of days in
each week, and there will be ll0,277
weeks and six days, proving that the exc
dus was on the sixth day of the ancient
week; and, consequently, that the first
sabbath in the series was. as required by
Jewish years, on Sunday and not Satur-
day But from the exodus" and conse-
qlently from the Passover, Saturday was
given to the Jews as their sabbath
Thus has Mr. Akers first tried to prove
that the exodus was on Saturday, and then.
in his next sentence, tries to prove that it
was on the sixth day Of the week, Friday !
Did MIR. Akers ever read the following
sentences in the Bible?
"For in the six days the Lord made
heaven and earth. the sea, and all that in
them Is, sand rested the seventh day
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath
day and hallowed it" Ex 20: H. For
in six days the Lord made heaven and
earth, and on the seventh day he rested,
and was refreshed" Ex 81; H. Does
this look like Saturday was the sixth day
of the ancient week, and Sunday the Sew
enth =?
JoHN MATTHEWS
Bosco III, Sept 1st, 1859.