"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.
5. Paul once broke bread upon the first day of the week.
Therefore the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath. Acts xx, 7.
---We answer, that at one period the apostolic church at Jerusalem 
broke bread every day. Acts ii, 42-46. Hence, according to this view, every day of the week is a Christian Sabbath!
Q: If a single instance of breaking bread at Troas, upon the first
day of the week, was quite sufficient to constitute it a Sabbath, would not the continued practice of the apostolic church in breaking bread every day, be amply sufficient to make every day a Sabbath? Q: Moreover, as the act of the Great head of the church in breaking bread must be quite as important as that of his servant
Paul, must not the day of the crucifixion be pre-eminently the Christian Sabbath, as Christ instituted, and performed this ordinance on the evening with which that day commenced? 1 Cor. xi, 23-36.
day of the week, was quite sufficient to constitute it a Sabbath, would not the continued practice of the apostolic church in breaking bread every day, be amply sufficient to make every day a Sabbath? Q: Moreover, as the act of the Great head of the church in breaking bread must be quite as important as that of his servant
Paul, must not the day of the crucifixion be pre-eminently the Christian Sabbath, as Christ instituted, and performed this ordinance on the evening with which that day commenced? 1 Cor. xi, 23-36.
Q: And as the breaking of bread commemorates the crucifixion of our Lord, and not His resurrection, would not the crucifixion day be as appropriate for the breaking of bread, as the resurrection day?
Q: But on what day of the week did this act of Paul occur?
Q: But on what day of the week did this act of Paul occur?
For if it is of sufficient importance to make the day of its occurrence the future Sabbath of the Church, the day is worth determining. The act of breaking bread was after midnight. For Paul preached to the disciples until midnight; then healed Eutychus; then attended to breaking the bread. Verses 7-11. If, as time is reckoned at the
present day, the first day of the week terminated at midnight, then Paul's act of breaking bread took place upon the second day of the week, which should henceforth be regarded as the Christian Sabbath, if breaking bread on a day makes it a Sabbath. But if the Bible method of commencing the day, viz: from six o'clock P.M. was followed, it would appear that the disciples came together at the
close of the Sabbath for an evening meeting, as the Apostle was to depart in the morning. Paul preached until midnight, and then broke bread with the disciples early in the morning of the first day of the week.
present day, the first day of the week terminated at midnight, then Paul's act of breaking bread took place upon the second day of the week, which should henceforth be regarded as the Christian Sabbath, if breaking bread on a day makes it a Sabbath. But if the Bible method of commencing the day, viz: from six o'clock P.M. was followed, it would appear that the disciples came together at the
close of the Sabbath for an evening meeting, as the Apostle was to depart in the morning. Paul preached until midnight, and then broke bread with the disciples early in the morning of the first day of the week.
Q: Did this constitute that day the Sabbath! If so, then why did Paul, as soon as it was light, start on his long journey to Jerusalem? If Paul believed it to be the Christian Sabbath, why did he violate it?
If he did not believe it to be sacred time,
why should you?
This text affords direct proof that the first day of the week is not the Sabbath. And it is indeed quite remarkable that this single instance of religious worship on the first day, should be urged as proof that the Sabbath of the Lord has been changed, while this same book gives the account of religious worship on at least eighty-four Sabbaths. Acts xiii, 14, 44; xvi, 13; xvii, 2; xviii, 4, 11."
J.N. Andrews
