4. That it is possible to establish the identity of the last day of the week at the present time with that upon which God rested at the completion of the emotion; from the providential manner in which God pointed it out in the exodus from Egypt; the fact that Christ and his disciples kept the Sabbath according to the commandment; the general agreement among Jews, Christians, and heathen concerning its place in the week from that time to this. 5. That the objection concerning the conflict between a definite Sabbath and the laws of nature at the poles does not array the God of nature against himself, or our version of his commandment, since the trouble does not imply any want of foresight on the part of the Deity, but rather a disregard of the plainest teachings of both providence and nature on the part of those who have placed themselves where it was never designed that men should locate. 6. That if a definite day is impossible, then the wisdom of God is impeached, since, both by the letter of the commandment and by his providential interpretation of it for forty years, that is the very thing which it inculcates. 7. That a definite day can be kept on the eastern continent, since this had been done for hundreds of years before the change of the law will be even claimed. 8. That a definite day can be observed on the western continent, since this is the very object which the Amendment is designed to secure. 9. That the trip around the world would render it as impossible to keep an exact seventh part of time as it would a definite seventh day. 10. That the seventh-part-of-time theory would introduce into society the direst confusion, defeating even the administration of justice. 11. That, practically, the whole world from the extreme east to the extreme west does keep a definite day. 12. That the loss and gain of time creates no disturbance except in the crossing of the Pacific Ocean. 13. That with a definite day, there must be a day-line. 14. That that day-line is, by the uniform practice of nations, and the providence of God, which renders it impossible that it should exist anywhere else, drawn through the Pacific Ocean. 15. That it only remains for us to do just what we are doing and have been doing for centuries in order to prove by actual demonstration that all the difficulties in the way of a definite Sabbath can be readily disposed of by those who are desirous of keeping the law of God as it reads. Footnote 18: