ONE is taught in the New Testament in plain language, yet almost universally rejected or neglected by the Protestant churches. The other is nowhere taught in the New Testament, yet it is almost universally observed by the same churches. In the one the cross is avoided contrary to the word. In the other, tradition and popular custom are followed without the word. John xiii, 12-15: “So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and Lord; and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye ought also to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.” But very few of our first-day friends can see proof for feet-washing in these words of our Lord. But what a relief they would experience if they could find a tithe of the proof for Sunday-keeping. Suppose the above quotation from John spoke of the first day of the week as follows—So after Jesus had observed the first day of the week as the Sabbath, he said unto his disciples, Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have observed the first day of the week as the Sabbath, ye also ought so to observe it; for I have given you an example that ye should observe the first day of the week as I have done. Could Sunday-keepers find in the New Testament similar language to the above, they might hold a jubilee over the fact that sacred scripture sustained them in following on in the cart-rut of human custom. But no such language relative to first-day observance can be found in the New Testament.