In justification of this change of the day, we often hear you plead the example of Christ and his apostles. But where do we find any thing to this effect in their example? Did the apostles _sabbatize_ on the first day of the week? Did the churches which were organized by them do so? Observe, the question between you and us is NOT, Did they _meet together_ and _hold worship_ on that day? BUT, Did they _sabbatize_? that is, Did they REST FROM THEIR LABOR on the first day of the week? Did they observe it AS a Sabbath? This is the true issue. We have often asked this question, but the only answer that we have received has been, _that they assembled for worship_. But this is not a candid way of meeting the point. It is in reality an answer to a very different question from the one we ask. Brethren, act out your own principles. Come up fairly to the question. When you ask a Pedobaptist, Did Christ baptize or authorize the baptism of little children? you expect him to make some other reply than, "_He put his hands on them, and prayed_." When you ask, Did the apostles baptize unconscious babes? you are not well pleased with the reply, _They baptized households_. Your question was with regard to _infants_--the _baptism_ of them. If, therefore, when we ask you, Did the apostles and primitive Christians _sabbatize_ on the first day of the week? you merely reply as above, we do not see but you are guilty of the very same sophistry you are so ready to charge upon your Pedobaptist brethren. Your adroit evasion of the real question seems to place you much in the same predicament as were the Pharisees, when Christ asked them whence was the baptism of John. It appears as if you reasoned with yourselves, and said, "If we shall say they _did_ sabbatize on the first day of the week, the evidence will be called for, and we cannot find it; but if we shall say they did _not_, we fear the day will lose its sacredness in the eyes of the people." We do not by any means wish to charge you with a Pharisaic lack of principle, but we put it to your sober judgment, whether your position is not an awkward one. Brethren, reconsider this point, and see if you are not on Pedobaptist ground. If the apostles did not sabbatize on the first day of the week, then it follows, as a matter of course, that, whatever notoriety or dignity belonged to that day, they did not regard it as a substitute for the Sabbath. Consequently, unless the Sabbath law was entirely abrogated by the death of Christ, the old Sabbath, as instituted in Paradise, and rehearsed from Sinai, continues yet binding, as "the Sabbath of the Lord thy God."