THE SABBATH DAY by T. B. Brown

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 23, 1869

THE SABBATH DAY.

By T. B. Brown

A Metrical Version of the Fourth Commandment.

Keep holy thou the day of rest, The Sabbath of the Lord, The day thy God Jehovah blessed; 'Tis his commanded word.

Six days of toil, with plenty blest, The Lord to thee has given; The seventh is his holy rest, Pledge of thy rest in heaven.

In it thou shalt from labor cease, Thy daughter and thy son, Thy servants, too, thou shalt release, 'Till the broad sun goes down.

Nor shall the stranger in thy gates Disturb thy holy joy; He too shall rest, and in thy streets No work his hands employ.

For in six days the Lord outspread The earth, and heaven, and sea, And when he all these things had made, Did rest the seventh day.

And thus, because thy God did rest Upon the seventh day, The day was sanctified and blessed; Remember, and obey.

—T. B. Brown.