MR. brown' S THIRD REPLY. 183 



A " summary" treattnent. Saturday observed till the Resurrection. 



Christians under the new economy ; and to have no j^ossihle 

 force against the Christian Sabbath, or ''the Lord's day." 

 On this broad Scriptural view, the conflicting opinions of all 

 Christendom may be, and, I have no doubt, ultimately will 

 be, happily harmonized, and their practice also, to the end of 

 the world. 



That the Scriptural basis of this future harmony was laid at 

 the same time that " the Stone disallowed of men was made 

 the head of the corner,'^ I think I have fully demonstrated in 

 my last, — from the necessity of the case, the new relations 

 created by redeeming love, the grand miracle of Chrisfs 

 Resurrection, and the concurrent voice of prophecy, explained 

 and sanctioned by our Lord as " Lord of the Sabbath day/' 

 I have said, further, that this is the true key to the subse- 

 quent history of the Apostolic Church. And this I now 

 proceed to prove, by applying it successively to every word of 

 that history. 



My friend W. B. T. makes very light of this branch of 

 the evidence. The texts referred to by me are disposed of 

 '' summarily'' indeed! (p. 93.) He concludes that "there is 

 no shadow of evidence that Jesus or his apostles changed the 

 Sabbath day.^' (p. 95.) I am not surprised at this. It is clear 

 that he has not studied the facts closely, so as to perceive their 

 force as connected links in a cliain of circunfistantial evidence 

 — practically and irresistibly confirming the fact of such a 

 changej as I have proved by other evidence already. 



For, mark the connection. When the body of our Lord 

 was laid in the tomb on Friday afternoon, the disciples who, 

 in their blind love, had prepared to embalm it, were unable 

 to do so because the Jewish ''Sabbath drew on.'' {Luhe xxiii. 

 54.) They therefore left it with the spices {Jolm xix. 40), 

 "and rested the Sabbath day, according to the co7nmandmenL" 

 (^Luke xxiii. 56.) Here is proof that, up to that time, the 

 Saturday Sabbath was held sacred by Chrisfs disciples — 

 notwithstanding W. B. T., like the malicious Jews, tries so 



