CAMPBELLITE TRADITION EXPOSED.
By James Harvey Waggoner
RECENTLY while taking down the tent a Disciple preacher came on the ground, and while we were conversing on different points he remarked that it was the practice of the early church to meet on the first day of the week to break bread. "By what authority," I asked, "do you say it was their practice?" He replied: "Because the record says they did. Has it not been your practice to hold meetings on this ground?" "Yes, for we have continued to hold meetings here from day to day, and from week to week. But has it been your practice to come here and talk to me?"
(That was the first time he had been there.) "Yes; but I have done it only once, and this does not make it my practice." "Well, the record only says they did it once. We have but two instances of breaking bread specified in the Scriptures, and these were on different evenings. Therefore to affirm that it was their practice to break bread on the first day is both unwarranted and unreasonable." Here the point was dropped; but I was told that he afterward said he should preach that there was no warrant for breaking bread every first-day. Every one that reasons on the scripture must come to the same conclusion.