e Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and
said peace be unto you." Dr. Adam Clark in referring to this 26v, says:
"It seems likely that this was precisely on that day se'night on which
Christ had appeared to them before; and from this we may learn that this
was the weekly meeting of the Apostles." Now it appears to me that a
little child, with the simple rules of addition and subtraction, could
have refuted this man. I feel astonished that men who profess to be
ambassadors for God do not expose such downright perversion of
scripture, but it may look clear to those who want to have it so. Not
many months since, in conversation with the Second Advent lecturer in
New Bedford, I brought up this subject. He told me I did not understand
it. See here, says he. I can make it plain, counting his fingers thus:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday--does'nt that make eight days after? and because I would not
concede, he parted from me as one that was obstinate and self-willed.
Afterwards musing on the subject, I said, this must be the way then to
understand it: _Count Sunday Twice._ If any of them were to be paid for
eight days labor, they would detect the error in a moment if their
employer should attempt to put the first and last days together, and
offer them pay but for seven. Eight days _after_ the evening of the
first day would stand thus: The second day of the week would certainly
be the first of the eight. Then to count eight days of twenty-four hours
_after_, we must begin at the close of the evening of the first, and
count to the close of the evening of the second day; to where the Jews
(by God's command) commenced their third day. But suppose we calculate
it by our mode of keeping time. Our Lord appears to his disciples the
first time at the close of Sunday evening. Now count eight days _after_,
(with your fingers or anything else,) and it will bring you to Monday
evening. Now I ask if this looks like Sunday, the first day of the week?

[34]Father Miller also gives his reasons for the change, in his lecture
on the great Sabbath: "One is Christ's resurrection and his often
meeting with his disciples _afterwards_ on that day. This, with the
example of the Apostles, is strong evidence that the proper creation
Sabbath to man, came on the first day of the week." His proof is this:
"Adam must have rested on the first day of his life, and thus you will
see that to Adam it was t