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ONE QUESTION.
Rogers--HIli Debate.
PROPOSITION SECOND.

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and truth came by Jesus Christ. John LIT.
Christians are led ana controlled by grace and
truth which are inlaid In the soul. i Will
write my laws in their heart. God SAID.
about twenty-five hundred years after crea-
tinu. Eek. 21:i0, r. / brought them out of
Egypt into the wilderness and gave them my
',, Mob. 9:l3, "A, Then CONTEST thou
down also upon Mt. Sinai, and madest known
unto them thy holy Sabbath. No report Of II
having been gwen 10 any people before this,
with requirement and penalty, no mention
made OF Sabbath for $500 years. Sin Gen. 2:3,
we read that God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctlfied IL, because that in II he had rested,
from his creation work In the 10th of Elk. we
given as a sabbath. Deut. 5:i5 Remember
that thou vast servant in the land of Egypt,
and that the Lord thy God brought thee out
thence; therefore, tho Lord thy God command
ed thee 10 keep the Sabbath day. Who were
servants in Egypt? Israelites: and because
the Lord had brought them out from thence
they we're commanded 10 keep the Sabbath.
He gnve IL To lsreal as u sign. Ex.3 II is
a sign between me and the children of isreal
III IL had been given 10 any other nation, how
could u have been sign between God end Is
rael. No requirement To keep the Sabbath, was
ever made OF Gentle; neither was Gentle
subject TO the penalty of death for violating
II. IL became part OF the statutory law, for
the jewish nation, which law was abolished,
lished in this paper Of March l6th) in Christ
After Christ died on the cross, neither Jew or
Gentile were ever required by the Apostles or
the Saviour, to keep the Sabbath. The early
Christians understood they were not under
the law, and did not keep the seventh day, ex-
cepting some of the Jews who could not easily
break away from the old customs, and kept
both the seventh day and also the first, or
Lords day. For reariy 1900 years the first day
has been observed by Christians for religious
worship DO the scriptures teach this? Yes;
both by precept and example. The first day
is made the distinguishable day of the present
dispensation by the resurrection of Jesus
from the dead This the day on which he was
declared to be the son OF God with power; on
which life and immortality we're brought to
light. on which the disci les were begotten
again Ia new and living hope, on which
Christ triumpbed over death. on which the
the Spirit came, ON which the new law went
forth, on which the Christian church began.
on which Satan met his defeat and the day on
which heaven and earth rejoiced together.
This day we find first in Lev. %. where IL was
distinctly marked by God in type, In the jew
ish economy. 1t has its place in most won
derful set of types, which bears the unmstak-
able stamp of divinity. These types were CIV
en- to the isrealites nearly 1900 hundred years
before Christ, recurring in the annual feast of
weeks every year till Christ should come.
From this remarkable set we give only those
which point directly to the first day. or as
there termed the day after the Sabbath.
The paschel lamb slain in Egypt, was type
of Christ our passover, slain on Calvary. The
giving OF the law on Sinai, WHICH was fifty
days from the morrow after the Staying of the
~
ing OF the law at Jerusalem, which was fifty
DAYS from the morrow after the Sabbath after
Jesus was slain.
The waving Of the first ripe sheaf as first
fruits of the harvest on the morrow after the
first sabbath after the passover, (being of ne.
cessity the first day. typities Christ risen, the
first fruits from the grave, Cor. 15:z0. on the
morrow after the Sabbath after he was slain
which morrow was the glorious first day. The
second wave Offering, which was to be the
first fruits unto the Lord, which was to be
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bath, or on the fiftieth day beginning TO count
from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the
day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave of.
fering, unto the III OrrOw after seventh Sab
bath, was typical of the first fruits unto tn,
Lord, on Pentecost, which was always on tn,
lirst day, or, on the morrow after the sabbath
when, as the result of Peters preaching the
gospel at Jerusalem, there were added TO then
three thousands souls, OF which the apostle
says, Jas ~, OF his own will begot he u.
with the word of the truth, that we should bt
kind of first fruits of his creatures. This oc
cured on the tifueth day, counting from tn,
morrow after the sabbath that Christ laid II
the grave; which also, the morrow after the
Sabbath, was equivalent to the first day.
Here, the prominent days OF the fifty, arc
always the morrows of the Sabbath, first day
From these are prehgured life from the dead
and life eternal.
The first day is also found in prophecy. Ps
1879. u, The Lord hath made him a day, The
salvation through Christ is referred to. In the
rejection of the stone which was set at naught
tue Dedu OF the corner tnrOugf
his resurrection and setting up of the King
dom on the first day, this is the day the Lore
hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in It
etc. Jesus showed himself alive, after his
passion to the apostles, being seen of them
forty DAYS, and speaking of the things!pertain
ing TO the kingdom of God. Acts 1:3. Jesus
did not always teach by command. He was
the great Teacher, and taught by precept and
example. He met with the apostles, when
they assembled on the first day after his res
direction. John 20:l9, 81, and again in Their
ass emily the next first day, Goth yer. Thes {
meetings seemed significant, pointing to the
new day of the new dispensation. Yet the
day was not fully developed until after the
Spirit which Christ so often promised to send
had come. John 14:16, "a, 26, and 1877, SID, "a
This Spirit was TO guide them into al truth
and bring To their minds every thing which he
had taught them while he was with them
This spirit guided them, infallibly to the keep
ing OF the day which Jesus designed to be
kept. He had said he was Lord of the Sabbath
day; or in other words he could do with 1t as
be would; even had the power to set it aside
He did, at his death Set il aside, with all Of the
old law Had he not power to give US a new
day in which to assemble and worship a day
which should be commemorative of his resur-
rection; day in which to remember him
DID he not say, All power is given to me in
heaven and on earth? Had he not beer. made
King of Kings and Lord of Lords?
After he Spirit came, and the law went
forth, and thousands came into the church of
Christ (Acts q we read in verse AZ, and they
continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine
and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and
in prayers. The doctrine OF the apostles we
find in the cts and the Epistles, by breaking
of bread, is meant Lords supper, the follow
ship is the collection. In these they continue
steadfast. Let us see when they attended to
the Lords supper, Acts 2O:7, and upon the first
day of the week, when the disciples came to-
gether to break bread, Paul preached unto
them ready to depart on the morrow Luke
speaks of this as their custom 10 come togeth-
or for this purpose on The first day. Heb. lO:25
Paul earnestly eXhorts. Not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, and in Cor
16, was concerning the collection for the
saints, fellowship upon the first day of the
week let every one OF you lay by him in store
as God hath p:Ospered him, that there be no
gatherings when come. Why upon the first
dayf Obviously because they met on that
day to break the loaf, commemorative OF the
Lords death, and could put their united offer
ings into the treasury of the Lord. This with
the breaking of bread had been part of the
doctrine of the Spirit as given by Peter, and
in which they continued steadfast. Paul says
in the same letter to the Corinthians Ia 81
And the things which j write unto you, are
them under the guidance of the Spirit, meet
ing on the first day to do these things, and find
Paul saying they are the commandments of
the Lord, Have we positive precept for the
Sunday institution? Mr.. Hill says no. He
said II you Will bring one precept for Sunday
keeping, will keep ii. Will he?
Paul SAID to the Corinthians, The cup of
blessing which we bless, is ii not the commun-
ion of the blood of Christ? The bread which
we break, is it not the communion of the
body OF Christ? Where do we find religious
worship il not in communion with Christ,
which we have on the first day, as established
by the apostles, who were guided into all
truth by the Spirit, Paul also in the same
letter, ul:ls,) referring to the first day meet
ings said, First of all when We come together
in the church. etc, for received of the Lord,
that which 1 also delivered unto you. That the
the Lord Jesus, the night in which he was be-
lrayed, took bread, and when he had given
IA md NOT. ,;1 tel
my body which is broken for you: this do In
of me. After the same manner
be took the cup: when he had supped, saying,
This cup Is the new testament in my blood;
this do ye, as oft as ye drink of it, in remem-
brance OF me. For as oft as We eat this bread
and drink this cup We show forth the Lords
this? When did they do il? On the first day
81 The week, Luke says. (Acts 20:7.) Is this
so says the negative Iu scripture
we have the Lords table. the Lords supper,
Lords day John said of himself, in Rev. LILO,
ana heard behind me great noise, saying, /
I'm Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.
no is this but Jesus the Lord, and whose day
out his day. Did he not rise ON this, his day,
md SO bring life and immortality to dying
world2 Did be not send the Spirit of Life on
bis day to guide the apostles in the setting up
lords? And il his, then ours; for all things |
ire ours and we are Christs. Cor. 1928.
Every dictionary. lexicon, aud cycopedia, |
ans, all sects in all ages pronounce Sunday |
lords day, except Sabbatarians) All antiQ- |
lity, sacred and profane, concurs in the testi- |
nony that the early Christians, the churches |
ounded by the Apostles, in fact all the |
,burches for the first three centuries partook |
II the Lords supper, every Lords day or SUM- /
lay. That they met for religious worship, to |
preach and to celebrate the Lords supper.
Thus testities Eusebius, the father of church |
history, Justin Martyr, and hosts of others.
Adyentists tell us that Sunday is the Pope's
lay. Sunday, or the first day, was kept long
lefore Poue existed. They assert that the
'ope changed the day, yet they fail In finding
he historian who records the fact.
The stated, distinctive Christian meetings
Tere held IN the days OF the Apostles, on the
rst day. The jews, as nation, did not ac-
ept of Jesus as the Messiah, and continued
heir synagogue worship on the seventh day.
tut there is no record OF single meeting OF
entile Christians on the Sabbath day, neither
{ distinctive Christian meetings of the Jews
n the Sabbath. In reply to the above Mr..
ill claimed to have found over eighty religi-
us meetings in the book of acts conducted by
aul. Let ms "review" him on this point. He
rst cites Acts 1872. We read the first verse