Brethren, who can say, that, from any or all of the texts commented upon above, the inference is _necessary_, that the first day of the week _is_, and that the seventh _is not_, _holy_? But this is precisely what _you_ infer from them. On the sole authority of these passages, together with that one in which Christ says, that he is "Lord of the Sabbath," you have no hesitation in affirming that the first day of the week is the very Sabbath day spoken of in the fourth commandment, and that the seventh day of the week is not _now_ more holy than any other; or, in other words, that the blessing which God put upon it in the beginning, (Gen. 2:21,) has been taken from it, and given to another day. What! because "there remaineth a sabbatism to the people of God," therefore the seventh day _must_ have ceased to be the Sabbath! Because "we will be glad and rejoice" in "the day which the Lord hath made," therefore the seventh day _must_ have ceased to be holy! Because Christ showed himself to his disciples once or twice on the first day of the week, therefore the seventh day _cannot_ be the Sabbath! Because the Pentecostal effusion of the Holy Ghost happened on the first day of the week, as is clearly demonstrated by arithmetical calculation, therefore the seventh day _cannot_ claim to be the Sabbath! Because the disciples met _once_ "to break bread" on the first day of the week, therefore God _must_ have unsanctified the seventh day! Because the Corinthian and Galatian Christians were commanded to "lay by them in store" on the first day of the week, for the relief of the poor saints, therefore the seventh day _can be nothing more_ than a working day! Because John was "in the spirit on the Lord's day," therefore the seventh day _cannot_ be "the Lord's day," as it used to be! Because Jesus Christ is "Lord of the Sabbath," and has the right to change it, or even to annihilate it, (?) therefore the seventh day _must_ have ceased to be a day of rest! O brethren, you dare not say, that any of these inferences flow from the Scriptures as _necessary consequences_. But if they are not _necessary_--if there is any way of avoiding them, without doing violence either to the text or context--how _can_ you ask me to believe that the first day _is_, and that the seventh _is not_, holy? CONCLUSION.