Dear Brother:-It is on my heart to send you a few words concerning our brother Easton's article on "The Seventh and Eighth Days," in a late number of your magazine.

As to what may be said on the subject on this side or on that, I have nothing to say here, nor has our brother advanced anything we did not know before, and which had not been well considered when different thoughts were put forth.

If any desire to make a fuller examination of the subject, they will find it in "Genesis in the Light of the New Testament," by F. W. G.; also, in a chart and key, and a pamphlet entitled "Sabbath Rest," by A. E. B.

What urges the few words I have to say now is one point in our brother Easton's article which I believe an unsafe principle:he assumes that the typical application of the creative days must be to "this" earth. Why, he does not tell us. I believe it is laying down a principle by which we are denied the application to new creation. Let us carry out the principle elsewhere, and we will deny there is any typical application of the Old Testament to heavenly and eternal things. We could not consent to this.

We assume that natural things typify spiritual things; that the work in the old creation typifies the work in new creation. If the seventh day of Gen. i and 2 is taken as typical of the millennial reign, then we do not have new creation work finished:it is left sadly incomplete.

Another thing, we are all familiar with what we call secondary applications. Now I have ever believed in a secondary application of the seven days' work to Israel and the world; but secondary applications never give us the full truth of the passage we are applying. So I believe there is truth in the application of the seven days our brother Easton makes; but it is not the full truth. It does not, and can not, embrace the full mind of the Spirit in the picture He sets before us. Only the primary or fundamental application can do that.

Again, we need the primary application to protect us against an abuse of the secondary. How often secondary applications have been made without regarding the limits within which the application is true! Necessarily, a secondary application is a limited application. It should only be used within its proper limits. Yours very truly,

In our Lord.

C. Crain