Keeping the Sabbath Holy.
By J. A. Smith
“REMEMBER the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Ex. xx, 8, 9. If we keep the Sabbath “holy,” we shall not talk about our worldly matters on that day. We will not talk about stock, lands, railroads, prices, &c., because we would be speaking our own words in doing so. There are six days in which we can perform our worldly matters. But if we love the Lord with all our hearts, and with all our minds, and with all our might (Deut. vi, 5; Matt. xxii, 37), we will be very careful to keep the Sabbath as it should be kept. There are some that do not keep it much better than many keep Sunday. Careless ones, do you suppose you will be sealed with the sign of the living God? are you not afraid you will not stand in the Judgment? If we remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, we will also remember that there is a preparation day, in which our food for the Sabbath should be prepared. It will be a good thing to commit the following Scripture to memory: “If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a DELIGHT, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” Isa. lviii, 13, 14.