Answers to Correspondents.
To W. E.: You will find an answer to your question about Melchisedec in the pamphlet entitled, Refutation of the Age to Come, published at this Office. “1. I would ask you to harmonize Matt. 28:1, with Mark 16:1, 2, and Luke 23:54, and 24:1. “2. Some take the position that our Saviour was crucified on Wednesday and rose on the Sabbath. If they could sustain that, would it not be a good proof against celebrating that as the resurrection day. H. H.” Ans. We see nothing but harmony in the texts cited. They all make a plain distinction between the Sabbath and the first day of the week. All say that the Sabbath was ended, and that it was early on the first-day when they came to the sepulcher. But none gives the exact time of the resurrection. For an exposition of the texts you are referred to the tract entitled “Sabbaton,” published at this Office. We are not interested to prove the day of the resurrection, until it is proved that we are required to keep the day of the resurrection. If men are determined to offer “will-worship” it is easy for them to conjecture reasons for it. It is sufficient to show that it is will-worship, and not required of God, without going beyond that fact to parley about the reasons, which are only of their own devising.