Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-09

chapter, forty second and forty fourth
verses. Again in chapter eighteen, he
worked at his trade, but teaches them
every Sabbath for a year and six
months. Read verses three, four and
eleven. He says Christ arose on the
first day Of the week and asks Is this
a blessing. ANSWER yes.) Then he says
peter preached on Penticost and saved
three thousand souls and asks was
this blessing (Answer yes.) Now tell
me do you place the blessing on his
resurrection ond the saving OF the
soul, or do you place it on the day, and
if on the day please tell me by whose
authority you do so, and where IT is
recorded? Then you say Acts twentieth
chapter shows the customs of the early
Christians to meet on the first day,
Now let US notice this moment and
see which day was their custom Of
meeting. This is all the meeting we
have q record of where they met to
break bread on the first day. Now 1t
was Christs custom to teach them on
the Sabbath, Luke fourth chapter and
sixteenth verse. 1t was Paurs custom
to meet and teach them on the Sab
bath. See Acts seventeenth and second
verse. So the Sabbath was their Gus.
tom of meeting.
= Mr.. Hunter refers us to Acts, the
twentieth and twenty-sixth verses, and
says this Is on the next first day OF the
week. I hope all will read his article
and then read the twenty sixth verse
and see if it says SO. Notice IT says
That could not be on the next first day.
1t does not mention any day. 1t looks
like he Is hard pushed for proof to es-
tablish his first day observance, when
he makes It read to suit MIN, My
friend may not be dishonest. but how
man can stretch his imagination to
say that this passage has anything to
do with the first day is mystery to
me-, Then he says the last time 1t is
mentioned Is in Revelations first, tenth
and applies it to the first day, and calls
it the Lords day. Now the Lords day
would be the day that the Lord said
was his, would it not? Look in Exodus
twentieth, tenth and eleventh verses.
These plainly say it Is the seventh day.
again Jesus says IN Mark. the second
chapter, twenty seventh and twenty
eighth verses: "He Is Lord also Of the
Sabbath day" Then again the Sabbath
day must be the Lords day, or else he
did not tell the truth He says the Sab
bath never was changed from the
seventh to the first day. (This IL true.)
Then who has changed it? Il answer
man and not God.) Then he says they
ruin on together, the Jews keeping the
brating the first day as the day Of his
resurrection. Let me ask you who told
you to celebrate it for that reason. No
on in the book but the Catholic church
says So He seems to mourn about John
on that lonely Isle of Patmos, and says
his mind runs back to the many bless
ed occasions when he met with his
disciples on the. first day to break
bread Now tell us how you know
what was in Johns mind, and tell US
how often he met with them on the
first day to break bread, and where to
find it, Don't give us multitude Of
words, but give us the chapter and
verse. Let me say that if my friends
want to place his blessing on the first
day let him do so. But the Lords
blessing still rests on the seventh day.
Which is worth the most?
Carlisle Smith,
Agency, Iowa.