19. Because the observance of the First Day, and neglect of the Seventh, having been adopted partly in contempt of the Jews, has always laid a burden upon them, and presented an obstacle to their receiving Christianity, which ought to be removed. 20. Because the observance of the Seventh Day obeys God, honors the Protestant Principle, rebukes Papacy, removes stumbling-blocks, and secures for us the presence and blessing of "the Lord of the Sabbath." Published by the American Sabbath Tract Society, No. 9 Spruce Street, N. Y. No. 7. PLAIN QUESTIONS. Reader! be pleased to give a plain answer to each of these plain questions, without equivocation or mental reservation. 1. Did God, after he had finished the work of creation, "bless and sanctify" THE _seventh day of the week_; or simply the _seventh part of time_, without reference to any _particular day_ of the seven? 2. Did He not sanctify THE _very day in which he rested_ from his work? Was not that _the last day_ of the seven? Did He sanctify any other? 3. WHY did He "bless and sanctify" _the_ seventh day? Was it not because he _rested_ on that day? Will this reason apply to _any other day_ of the seven? Did he not _work_ on EVERY other day? (See Gen. 2:2, 3.) 4. Is not God's example of resting on the seventh day enjoined upon us for imitation? (Ex. 20:8-11.) Do we imitate him, when we rest upon some other day than the one in which He rested? 5. Is it the special _appointment of God_ which renders a day holy, or is it _our own act_? Is the day holy because we _count_ it so, or because God has made it so? 6. When God enjoins us to count the Sabbath, "the holy of the Lord," (Isa. 58:13,) is it not equivalent to telling us that He himself has _previously_ constituted it a holy day by blessing and sanctifying it? Is it any thing more than requiring us to reckon the day to possess that dignity which He _has already_ conferred upon it? 7. If God's blessing does not rest upon one particularly specified day, to the exclusion of all others, and we are nevertheless required to keep a day holy, are we not required to do what _is impossible_? For how can we count a day to be holy, which God has not previously made so? (Compare Quest. 5.) 8. If God's blessing did not rest upon one particularly specified day, could he challenge to himself any propriety in one day more than in another? Yet in the Sabbath day he claims a special propriety; "MY _holy day_." (Isa. 58:13.) 9. Are we not commanded to refrain from labor in _that very day_ which God once "blessed and sanctified," and thereby made holy time? "In IT thou shalt not do any work," &c. Do we obey this command when we work all of that day, and make it the busiest day of all the seven?