Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26

! only mentioned 1t once? am sure you
would insist that we understand, she
did those things as often as the day
came around.
And God, who rules the ordinances
Of the day and night sees to 1t that the
first day of the week comes to his chill
|. dren who delight to come together
and break bread as often as it does to
people who prefer to use 1t to bake
bread.
In your efforts to nlurk the waters
around that meeting, you say, but they
did not break the bread until after
midnight, and again you say, in verse
|eleven, they break the bread. Now see
you can read as carelessly when you
don't want to see thing, as when you
do. Read the verse now and you will
see that Paul is the only one mention
ed in it. He preached all night, but ate
a midnight meal in the interval Oc-
the window. The disciples had come
together to break bread and had
broken bread before the preaching.
! The preaching was a mere incident
following the worship meeting In
Acts 2, AZ, they continued steadfastly
in the apostles doctrine and fellow
ship, and in breaking of bread, and in
prayers. The breaking of bread refers
to the worship meeting. 1t began on
the day of Pentecost, the first day of
| the week. The meeting at Troas in
Acts twenty, was twenty-s seven years
after. Now if they continued steadfast-
ly in breaking of bread all those
years. and there is not a hint that they
did not) and were still coming togeth-
er on the first day of the week at
Troas, and throughout Galatia and at
Corinth. q Cor. Is: 1-2.) Then they
must have had more than one meeting
to break bread on that day, as you In
sist. But you will surley sight me to
Acts 2, 46: And they continued daily
with one accord in the temple, and
| breaking bread from house to house,
did eat their meat with gladness and
singleness of heart. There is no
| thought of worship in this, as in verse
AZ and chapter 20, Z. 1t refers to their
daily life. This breaking of bread in
cluded the eating of meat or partaking
| of food ,as in the margin. I only dwell
at length on this to show our read.
ers, if not yourselves, how you will
| wrest the scriptures, as woman
| wrings clothes by hand, to make them
| mean what you want them to mean.
Your next is an effort to convince the
, people that you have the preponder-
ance Of evidence in favor of Sabbath
keeping. You say could give eighty
meetings on. Could you? Where do you
find them? Kind reader let me insist
you have your Bible open here at
Acts IS. Raul came to Corinth,
verse one. He reasoned in the syna-
gogue every Sabbath verse four. He
testified to the Jews that Jesus was
Christ, verse five. They opposed them
selves and blasphemed and Paul
shook his raiment and said, will go
unto the Gentiles verse six. And he
departed thence, and entered the home
of one Justus, verse seven. Many OF
the Corinthians hearing, believed and
were baptized, verse eight. And an as
sembly or church was established at
Corinth. And he continued there
year and six months, teaching the
word of God among them, the Christ
lians, verse eleven. This sounds like he
was there that long after he left the
synagogue. Be that as it may. Now
you are good at figuring: take the rev
Sabbath days that Paul reasoned IN
the synagogue from the seventy eight
that are in year and half, and the
remainder take from your eighty-four,
and you have not such a preponderous
of evidence as you thought. But while
you search through the Acts, to find
other mentions Of the Sabbath to make
up your loss, examine each carefully
If / was not right in my former letter,
that the Jews met on that day to read
the law and the prophets and. If
there to persuade men to worship God
contrary to the law, verse thirteen.
This was the Jews charge against
Paul when they brought him to the
Judgment seat verse II. And 1t rs lust
what you would charge this fellow at
Eldon with doing. For teach what l
find in his eptstles to the Galatians,
that Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse Of the law, being made q
curse for us; for it Is written, Cursed
is every one that hangeth on tree.
(Gal. 3, 13) and in Romans, that
Christ is the end Of the law for right
eousness to every one that bel1evetn.
/ (Romans 10. ~ that We are dead to the
law by the body Of Christ; e.. A. and
therefore we are not under the law,
but under grace, 6, IA, IL.
And while you search, find II you
can, Sabbath day when the Christ
ians as church came together to
worship. If you do not find 1t, you
have not even one day when Christ
ians kept the Sabbath. In regard to
my proposition that the Christian an
he enters by believing in Jesus; YOU
say, If this is true. I am In utter dark
ness. VIII you tell us further about
this? l gave you two plain scriptures
without comment, John s. "a and 10.
2S) but they do not seem to have any
effect on your spiritual DuHuness. l
will give you one more from the same
gospel and add little tinctnre OF
comment to make it stronger. In John
A. is the story of the woman at the
we'll, in verses 13 and Ia Jesus says,
whatsoever drinketh Of this water. (the
water in the welD shall thirst again,
but whosoever drinketh Of the water
that I shall give him, shall never
thirst This water is explained in
chapter Z, 1898 to be, The spirit
which they that believe on him
should receive. Now. If a single soul
who has believed in Jesus, and receiv-
ed the spirit (Which every born again
soul does) has never lost that spirit,
then, did Jesus tell that woman the
truth?
thank you for calling attention to
the error in Isaiah &c, %. A little omis-
sion by the printer spoiled what said
about the Sabbath being reinstated
during the millennium. wonder you
would call attention to mistake
which left my meaning blank.
will say here that the title of my
former letter should have BEEN The
lChristian's Sabbath VS.. the Jewish