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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