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THE PREPARATION DAY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 16, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 29.

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THE PREPARATION DAY.

“And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on.”
Is Friday your preparation day? or is it your rush day, the busiest of the whole week?
Do you prepare for the Sabbath by hurrying all day Friday to get through with the greatest possible amount of work, and especially Friday afternoon? Do you find it necessary to consult your calendar, that you may know just the exact minute when you must stop work, in order not to encroach upon the Sabbath? To spend the preparation day thus is to make a very doubtful sort of preparation for the arrival of the Sabbath.
To keep the Sabbath properly requires a right use of the mind as well as of the body. As the sacred day approaches, the mind should turn toward sacred themes, and to this end the work performed upon the preparation day should be less absorbing of the mental faculties, rather than more and more so, as the Sabbath day draws near.
The presence of the Sabbath day brings to us the presence of the Lord of the Sabbath. The preparation day is for a preparation to meet with Him. Let us not rush into His presence in a manner we would be ashamed of if the occasion were one of meeting with some earthly friend.