John 20:26

After eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them.

It was on the second Sunday after the resurrection; the second Lord's day in the history of the world. Let it be noted:

1. On the seventh day the Lord was in the tomb and the hearts of his disciples buried with him. It was the last Sabbath of the old dispensation. The Sabbath institution went out in gloom. Its last memory is of the dead Savior and buried hopes.

2. It is on the Lord's day, the first day of the week, that he bursts the tomb and brings life and immortality to light.

3. On that day occurs the first recorded meeting of the disciples of the crucified Lord and he meets with them.

4. During the entire following week, including the seventh day, there is silence; no appearance of the Savior and no meeting of the disciples.

5. But on the next Lord's day, the first day of the week, they meet again, probably because he had directed it, and he appears again.

6. When we add that the meeting of Pentecost was on the first day also, that there are positive evidences in Acts and. Corinthians of the custom of the churches of meeting on the first day, and not. single account, after the resurrection of the Savior, of. church meeting for worship on the seventh day, and

7. lastly, that church history shows it to have been the unbroken usage of the ancient churches to meet on the first day of the week, we may well wonder at the Sabbatarian folly.