Although it is difficult to set an exact date for the origin of the Christian Sunday. It is not difficult to explain why it came to supersede the Sabbath. Our Lord established a Church and the fellowship in that Church was not only between the disciple and Christ the head, but a fellowship between members,' It was not enough that the solitary soul should be brought into fellowship and communion with Christ, It was necessary that he should live in fellow ship with his fellow Christians, Free and habitual communion with one another was almost as necessary for the development of the new life as free and habitual communion with God. But this of necessity required that the Christian Churches should appoint fixed and frequent times for meeting, and the choice naturally fell upon the first day of the week, There were excellent reasons for this choice, It was the day of our Lord's resurrection. The most memorable appearance of our Lord to the Apostles after his resurrection was on that day. It was the day on which the Holy Ghost descended on the Church at Pentecost,
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