"Excuses" For Changing the Sabbath SERIES: Meeting the Disicples?

"But what authority, then, do they show for changing the Sabbath!

Not a particle of direct testimony, ..... However, they have several inferences which they think make the subject very plain.

2. But the disciples met on the day of our Lord's resurrection, to
commemorate that event, and the Savior sanctioned this meeting by unitingwith them.
Were every word of this true, it would then amount only to

a very slender inference that the Sabbath was changed. But to show the utter fallacy of this inference, we will agree to prove that they did not at that time believe that he had been raised from the dead; but were assembled for the purpose of eating supper, and secluding themselves from the Jews. "Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you." John xx, 19. "Afterward he appeared unto the eleven, as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief, and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen." Mark xvi, 14. 

Then it is a fact that the disciples were not engaged in commemorating the resurrection of the Savior, for they did not believe that that event had taken place. Certain it is that the disciples did not entertain the most distant idea of a change of the Sabbath. 

At the burial of the Savior the women who had followed him, prepared spices and ointments to embalm him; the Sabbath drew on; they "rested the Sabbath-day according to the commandment;" and when the Sabbath was past, they came to the sepulchre upon the first day, to embalm Jesus. Luke xxiii, 53-56; xxiv, 1. 

Then there is not even a plausible inference, in this case, for perverting the fourth commandment. 

---The disciples kept the Sabbath according to that precept, and resumed their labor upon the first day of the week." J.N. Andrews