Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-09

it was the feast of the Pentecost, ant
not the first day OF the week. that Go'
designed to honor. the following
| facts demonstrate
/ 1. While the day of Pentecost i
distinctly named, the day of the weel
on which it occurred is passed in sill
ence.
2. The disciples had been engaged
in earnest prayer for the space OF tel
days: for the day of Pentecost was fifty
day from the resurrection of Christ
and forty of these days He spent with
His disciples.-Acts 1.
Forty days from His resurrection
would expire on Thursday. the day oi
His ascension. A period of ten days
after his ascension on Thursday would
include two first days, the last oi
which would be the day of Pentecost.
If the design of God had been to
honor the first day of the week, why
did not the Holy Ghost descend on the
first of those first days? Why must
the day of Pentecost come before the
Holy Ghost could descend? This an
swer is obvious: 1t was not the design
of Heaven to honor the first day of the
week.
But to mark the antitvpe of the feast
of Pentecost. Hence the first day OF
the week is passed in silence.
The Staying of the paschal lamb on
the fourteenth day of the first month
had met its antitype in the death of the
Lamb of God on that day.-Ex. II.
John 10. Cor. 5:7.
The offering OF the first fruits on the
sixteenth day of the first month had
met its antitype in the resurrection of
our Lord on that day. the first fruits of
them that slept.-Lev. 23:1. 1920. %.
1t remained that the day of Pen.e-
cost, fifty days later, should also meet
its antitype.-Lev. 23:15-21. The
fulfllment of that type is what the pen
of inspiration has recorded in Acts
2:1-2. God has spoken nothing in
this place respecting a change of his
Sabbath. Yet grave men calling them
selves Doctors of Divinity, consider
this text one of their strongest testi-
fov hi no6 ST.
Sabbath. They might be profited by
this advice of the wise man: ssAdd
prove thee, and thou be found O liar. >
Prov. 30:6.
Fifth Reason = Paul once broke
bread upon the first day of the week al
Troas. Hence this day was observed
as the Christian Sabbath.-Acts 2O:7.
We answer that at one period, the
apostolic churnh at Jerusalem broke
bread every day.-Acts 2:42-46. II
single instance of breaking bread at
Troas upon the first day of the week
was quite sufficient to constitute it the
Sabbath, would not the continued prac-
tice of the apostolic church at Jerusa-
lem in breaking bread every day be
amply sufficient to make every day a
Sabbath? Moreover as the act of the
great head of the church in breaking
bread must be quite as important as
that of his servant Paul, must not the
day of the crucifxion be pre-eminently
the Christian Sabbath, as Christ insti-
tuted and performed this ordinance on
the evening with which that day COM
menced?-1 Cor. II 1:23-26.
But on what day of the week did this
act of Pauls occur? For, if it is of
sufficient Importance to make the day
of its occurrence the future Sabbath
of the church. the day is worth deter
mining.
The act of breaking bread was after
midnight, for Paul preached to the
disciples until midnight. then healed
Eutychus, and after this attended to
breaking bread.-Acts 20:7-11.
If, as time is reckoned at the present
day, the first day of the week terminal
ed at midnight, then Paul's act of
breaking bread was performed upon
the second day of the week, or Mon
day, which should henceforth be re-
garded as the Christian Sabbath, if
breaking bread on a day makes it
a Sabbath.
But, if the Bible method of commen-
cling the day, viz, from sunset, was
followed, it would appear that the dis
ciples came together at the close of the
Sabbath for an evening meeting, as
the apostle was to depart in the morn
irg. If it was not an evening meeting,
why did they have many lights there?
Paul preached unto them until mid
night. and then broke bread with the
disciples early in the morning of the
first day of the week. Did this act
constitute that day the Sabbath?
If so. then why did Paul as soon as
it was light. start on his long journey
to Jerusalem?
If Paul believed that Sunday was the
Christian Sabbath, why did he thus
openly violate it? If he did not believe