The Springdale news., 1917-02-02
AN OPEN STATEMENT
To the Rev Dr. Pipe of che N. E.
 Chure il, North


 Reverened Sir: Being listener to your sermon last Sunday night and unable to agree with you in many things. 1 venture to here give you my reasons for so disagreeing, as follows:
 You made the broad and uaWarran- ted statement that No sect calling themselves Christians have ever kept any other day than the first day of the week since Christ l believe that there are now living in the city of Springdale members of the Seventh Day Baptist. the Seventh Day Church of God and the Seventh Daf Adxen- tist churches, all of whom cal them selves and having every right that zou possess to call themselves Christians These people accept Christas their savior and q living and not Dead Christ as you would have your con gregation believe
 Aside from the tects mentioned let me n passing notice that the Apostle Paul A his manneI was, went in Gn- to them. and three Saabaths reasoned with them out Of the scriptures" Acts 17:2; also at Antioch Paul preached t0 both the Jews and the Gentiles Acts 13:1t for several sue cessive Sabbaths. Verses 42, II. At Philppi Paul again preached on the Sabbath Acts l6:13 l. fact Paul, be ing a tent maker, lived and worked with the people and reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath Acts Is 5, and | IL would be idle to claim that the Sabbath referred to was any other than the seventh day, so 1t seems that Paul, calling himself q christian, was also keeping the Sabbath more than half 2 century after the hesurection.
 Again you quoted John 20:l9 and willingly led your congregation to be- iieve hat Jesus came to the deeiples at d religious meeting presumably to celebrate the resurrection of Christi Now the simple fact of the matter IS that Peter, James, John and other eleven in number abode in that upper room; that they did not even believe that Jesus had arisen; and that the door was shut for fear of the Jews who were much excited and the declp- les feared personal violence. Mark l6:9 to l inc. Acts 1;I3
 Again you ask the question Why did Jesus always meet with the decl- ples oa the first day of the week - Surley not to keep the Sabbath for at one such meeting Jesus found them fishing and directed them how that they might have better luck. John 2l.1 70 B Certainly Jesus at no time either before or after hIs resurrection e~er called or after or the Sab path or even limited that it should be observed as such. Why For if Jesus had given them rest then would he not afterwards have spoken of another day Hebrews il 10 10
 It seemed from your remarks that Eou were undecided as to when God began his work saying We do not know if it was on Mon. or Tues or Wed. the inference being that we dos not know when seventh day Is. d0 not clam to be Bible student but if seems to me to be plainly marked at date as the exodus of the Children of Israel from the land of Egypt, for mama was withheld on the seventh day both before and after the giving of the plates of stone which was the law, this also shows that this was not the first time that this law was given, in fact this law had been in force From the beginning Psa 1t9: l60 Gwen before there was a Jew) Your statement that we are : not un- der the law but under. the gospel" is open to argument. some claim that We are under both There seems to be a difference of opinion among Chris tlanS people as to what was abolished through Christ, but a careful study of the Bible fails to disclose a single text even hnting that the law of God was 50 abolished. l have not the time or space to go into the question as to what was 90 abolished but l would be pleased to take it up with you at any future time At present it must suf-