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Feet hashing.
Dear Sister Phillips:—After
a long delay caused by being from
home most of the time for the
last two mcnths, I will now reply
to the point in dispute, which you
insist that I do. Quoting your
language “Now you see on the fact
that Jesus was betrayed on the
night of the fret washing is where
* on I risk all for the first proposi
tion; and still say I, or rather the
truth, has won the battle. I made
this tne evidence before, but
you would not notice it. I now beg
and insisWthat you do so.” You
certainly have placed more on the
first proposition than I ever claim
ed; but I will let you have your
viay on that, for that is as good
as I could ask if, that is, you risk
Lail on the fact. (You '-all it a
fact)..that Jesus was betrayed on
the night of the feet washing.
That narrows down to one point,
and that the easiest part for me.
No historian ccn tell more than
one thing at a time, and when
they have more than one thing to
tell, they have to travel over the
sam° period of time till have
told all they wish to record. That
is the way John done. Starting
at the supper at Bethany, he tells
of the precious ointment, the an
ointing o f the feet of Jesus. And
passed on to the n» xt day when
they took branches of palm trees
ard went forth to meet him, and
cried “Hosanna; Blessed is the
King of Israel that cometh in the
name of the Lord,” and also con
cerning the young ass that he sat
thereon, and then in the thirteenth
chapter tells of something else
that transpired during the same
period of time, and so goes back
to the supper already spo
ken of and says “And the supper
being ended.” This language im
plies that the reader already knew
what supper was meant, as having
been spoken of before, and not ot
something they had not heard of;
and to settle the point of time, he
says it was before the passpver.
, See next verse. And the attend-
soul is exs »eding sorrowful even
unto death, then followed the
scene of his terrible suffering. And
while he yet spike, k, Ju-ias, ouh
>f the twelve, came, and with him
a great multitude with swords and
staves. Now this shows that a'l
that is recorded between the 36
and 47 verse—Matt, followed im
mediately after the passover.
Now contrast this with what
was said, and transpired after the
feet washing, aud before the be
trayal, and you will find I was
correct in saying that there was
not time enough to do all that was
done. Notice 30 verse —He then
having received the sop. went im
mediately out, and it was night,
not the night of the passover, for
the betrayal followed immediate
ly after it, but tne night of the
supper that the feet washing fol
lowed, and Judas went out to make
arrangements to betray him, the
devil having entered into him.
Now let us follow on from the
time that Judas went out, tJI he
appeared again in the garden.
When he wa: gone out Jesus said,
“Now is the Sou of man glorified,
and God is glorified in him.” 33,
verse “Little children, yet a little
while I am with you,” 34 “A new
commandment I give unto you,”
&c. Then told Peter that he
should deny him ; and notice, there
is a difference in the manner of
expression. Mathew says “This
night before the cock crow thou
sbalt deny me trice.” John sayi
“The cock shall not crow, till thou
hast denied me thrice.” Mathew’s
words show that he was speaking
in the same night of the betrayal.
While John does not say this
night, from which w« must infer,
and agreeing with other tnings
too, that it was before that night,
that is, it was after the time of
cock crowing that Judas went out,
and before the time of the crow
ing, on the night of the passover.
Then follow on, and we find that
Jesus spake the words contained
in the 14, 15, 16, and 17 chapters,
to show that the passover and be
trayal was stillahead of this. See
by the Evangelists—said the same
night in which he was betrayed,
he took hr°ad, &c., and instituted
the Lord’s supper. 1 Cor. 11:33.
And Mathew, Mark and Luke says
Jesus took this bread, &c,, and in
stituted the Lord’s supper, on the
night of, as taking the elements
from, the passover supper. Hence
the night of the betrayal, w as that
of the passover aud Lord’s supper,
and of washing the disciple’s feet.
Aud the work I insisted yon
should do was, with the above, to
harmonize the assertion of Jesus
while at the Bethany supper, said
“after two days is tne passover,
(not feast of) and the Son of man
is betrayed to be crucified,” with
your assertion that the betrayal
was at, and on the night of, the
Bethany supper; and hence the
feet washing was before the pass
over supper.
Bui instead of this, I find the
most, if not all, your arguments,in
this last letter, the very Sime that.
I have already answered. So I
wish those interested, will read
again my last letter on the sub
ject in Banner of Oct. ber 15.
I am a little surprised that you
criticise aud condemn me for cal
ling it a fact that Jesus was be
trayed on the night of the feet
washing, when you yourself said
the same m your first letter, even
as John said.
But a great deal more so when
you said that John, after recor
ding the events ot two days and
nights, beginning at, and inclu
ding the 12 chapter,—since he
could tell but one thing at a time,
(neither could the others) that he
began the 13 chapter as going
back to Bethany and recording
other events that transpired in
the same period of time with the
former, and hence, to make it ap
pear that the “supper being ended”
as refered to by John, was the
same Bethany supper. And all
to carry the feet washing aud be
trayal back to, as transpiring at,
Bethany the same night; and so,
appear to be before the passover.
tile next dawn.
jAnother reason—that I have
new* before mentioned because
derived m pnrt from profane his
tory — Bav passover was
onj this night of feet washing, was
that it w ® 9 the fifteenth of the
the Lord had set for it.
on the
nexth 6 * wa9 crucified, and rose
on the third day after.
Besides all these things, brother
Downey* don’t you see that to
carry the betrayal back as trans
piring at Bethany, that you not
only B®y thereby that Jesus never
did observe the passover that year,
as that he was crucified the next
day after betrayal, but also you
mu st carry the Mount of Olives
and the garden therein where
Jesus was betrayed, as well aa
tomb burrial, <fcc.? But Jesus suf
fered without the camp or gate at
Jerusalem-
I' i wiiyjbU ce one more point in
yours,—y|u say when Judas was
ready to go out to betray Jesus,
he said tflpim “what thou doest,
do quickll” and that the disci
ples supped Jesus meant for him
to buy dose things needful to
the feast ;jmd say “if this was the
passover | you (I) claim, those
things woild have been already
bought; Ut this proves it before,
just as Jo|n said in first verse,”
But you ifstake me here. I say
the pasEOtr wupper was then al
ready eatejJj as also the supper
“ended”®!the Lord’s supper, as
also the fft washing. And the
very fact|bat they supposed Jes
us meant|hose things needful for
the feast, |hows they refered to
the feast d unleaven bread, and
not the pical supper; as Peter
and John inew they had made
ready this lamb, and had already
eaten thksupper. And all this
after “nrejffration tor the feast,”
as one saii far the “next day”—
was finite Kabbath as an high
dayinjfepst; aud for which
they not -the judgment
hall lJß‘4Mfr'file themselves so
as this high-day
finally I felt lost indeed. I felt
there was no pardon for my poof
soul. I prayed t<» my Redeemer day
and night while my troubles seem
ed to grow worse and worse. In this
awful condition, through the per
suasion of a Missionary preacher,
I joined the Missionaries and was
baptized, hoping to get relief there
by, but instead, I still remained in
despair, and under a heavy burden.
. I would read my bible and pray
( to my God; but my heart was so
heavy and distressed that I finally
concluded a lump or tumor was
growing in my chest that would
soon, take me from time. I went
to my mother then in tears and
told her about it, and that I be
lieved it would soon be obliged to
kill me. My mother being old
and excitable soon prepared a
plaster and placed it over my chest,
but it gave me no relief at all.
My dear good sister told her that
God would give me relief from it.
I attended every meeting I could
get to, praying and crying for help.
On my return home frcm preach
ing one evening. I picked up a
sheet of the “Index” and began to
read it, searching for some help
and comfort;’ but everything con
demned me. I finallv found a
song in it that read, “since man
by sin hag lost his God.” I con
cluded the gocd Lord had so order
ed it to be thus thrown in my way,
to show me that I had lost my
God. This caused me so much—
so great distress of soul that I Jost
my mind. I felt that I wanted to
hear nothing but a prayer. 1 want
ed to kneel at the feet of every one
I saw and pray, and beg them to
pray for mo.
I lay down one night and fell
into a light sleep and dieamed I
saw a lot with twenty-six sheep in
it, and it seemed I was to get an
interest m the lot. Also that
brother John Barkstell spoke to
me in a vision, and said, the Lord
had sent him to say to me that I
had once been present with him—
the Lord—and that if I wpuid fast
and pray for nighta
t ders and fears, as to what I should
r do. I had faith in God, but not in
r myself. I was much troubled to
• know whether I would deceive
i God’s children, or whether I
■ would burden myself with
, wrong doing, if I should go to the
i church So I went to God, and
God alone with my case, pleading
for mercy to reconcile and guide
me according to his will. I want
ed to be shown in a * vision what
was his will concerning me. Soon
after supper, I retired to my bed
alone, and begged the Lord to show
me that night where I must be to
be most in obedience and praise to
him on his throne? And the Prim
itive and Missionary Baptist both
appeared before me;—the Mission
aries to my left, and the Primi
tives most distinct, on the right.
It seemed as though I was going
to church and found myself alone,
and yet not atone, for I felt that
I was accompanied by a divine
power. Every thing appeard as
white marble. And as I went,
brother Nathan Bussey fell in with
me and took me'by my right hand
and spoke and said to me, “Go
with me straightway into that al
ter and let us’pray "and that pray
er will last eternally.” We went
into that beautiful white alter and
kneeled down, and he remaining
on my right side; and I’never have
heard such a prayer as that he
prayed, appeared to me. And I .
do believe with all the power
of my soul that my blessed
Redeemer revealed that to me to
show me the true worship of God
in the beauty of holiness. And
also that he showed me the Primi
tive Baptist as the true church of
Christ.
As time and space will not
admit. I will write no more now.
Mrs. 8. C, Tyler.
'P. S:—lf you do not think
what I have written above is worth
publishing, just t*»row it aside, as
I failed to finish on several points.
However, I wil] add that my meg?-'
übership is