Not a particle of direct testimony, ..... However, they have several inferences which they think make the subject very plain.
1. Redemption is greater than creation; therefore we ought to keep the day of Christ's resurrection, instead of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment.
Q: Where has God said this?
A: Nothing of the kind is found in either Testament.... admitting that redemption is greater than creation, who knows that we ought to keep the first day of the week on that account!
Q: Has God said that we should?
A: No, never. God has not said that we should keep any day to commemorate redemption. But if it were duty to observe any day for this reason, most certainly the crucifixion day presents the strongest claims. It is not said that we have redemption through Christ's resurrection, but it is said that we have redemption through His blood. "In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace." Eph. i, 7. See Col. i, 14.
----If we would commemorate the events of redemption, no necessity exists that we should destroy the holy Sabbath in order to do it.
---God has provided us with memorials bearing His own signature; and these we may observe with the blessing of Heaven.
Q: Would you commemorate the death of our Lord!
A: Then heed the following: "For I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread; and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till He come." 1 Cor. xi, 23-26.
Q: Would you commemorate the burial and resurrection of the Savior!
A: The following scriptures teach us the will of God in this: "Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death! Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection." Rom. vi, 3-5; Col. ii, 12."
J.N. Andrews
