Three standing miracles a week, for about forty years annually, ought to perpetuate the Sabbath. 1st, double the quantity of manna on the sixth day; 2d, none on the seventh; 3d, did not spoil on the seventh day. If it does not matter which day you keep holy to the Lord, then all these nations are right. Now reflect one moment on this, and then open your bible and read the commandment of the God of all these nations! "REMEMBER! (what you have been taught before) _the Sabbath day to keep it holy_;" (which day is it Lord?) "_the_ SEVENTH _is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger, that is within thy gates_." Who is the stranger? (Gentiles.) Now the reason for it will carry us back again to Paradise. "_For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the_ SEVENTH; _wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it_." "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the _Sabbath_ throughout their generations for a _perpetual covenant_; it is a SIGN between me and the children of Israel _forever_." (Why is it Lord?) "_For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the_ SEVENTH _day he rested and was refreshed_." Exo. xx and xxxi. Which day now will you choose? O, says the reader, the seventh if I knew which of the days it was. If you don't know, why are you so sure that the _first_ day is right? O, [7]because the history of the world has settled that, and this is the most we can know. Very well then, does not the _seventh_ come the day before the eighth? If we have not got the days of the week right now, it is not likely that we ever shall. God does not require of us any more than what we know; by that we shall be judged. Luke xxiii: 55, 56. Once more: think you that the spirit of God ever directed Moses when he was giving the history of the creation of the world, to write that he (God) "blessed the _seventh_ day and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work," unless he meant it to be dated from that very day? Why, this is as clear to the unbiassed mind as it is that God created man the sixth day. Would it not be the height of absurdity to attempt to prove that God only intended Adam should be created at some future period, or that the creation of the heavens and earth was not in the beginning, but some twenty-five hundred years afterward? All this would be as cogent reasoning as it would be to argue that God did not intend this day of _rest_ should commence until about twenty-five hundred years afterwards. (The word Sabbath signifies rest.)