One article of the Baptist Association of Linn county, Iowa, requires its members to take the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the perfect rule of faith and conduct. In Fairview members had been required to assent to the Old Testament as well as the New, in order to admission into the church. But when their Elder could not avoid the "gaps" in any other way, he boldly declared that the Old Testament was done away, and of no authority in the Christian dispensation. Another article of the Association requires its members to "practice the commands of God, and keep the first day of the week as the Sabbath," thus unwittingly admitting the first-day observance something more than the commandment of God. In their case how appropriate will be the question, "Who hath required this at your hands?"