Sabbath Piety

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 9, 1873

Here is a bit of spicy suggestion from some anonymous source:— “There is a mystery about this effect of the weather on piety. Sabbath heat seems hotter, Sabbath cold colder, and rain wetter, than that of any other day; for the same measure of heat or cold or rain on a week day will not keep a man from his usual business. We need a Sabbath almanac, calculated for our churches, that will show by its weather scale when it will be safe for a vigorous Christian to expose himself on the Sabbath by going to the house of God. Such an almanac would enable pastors and superintendents of Sabbath-schools to know whom they could depend on in church, Sabbath-school, and prayer-meeting. I have recently been examining microscopic views of the different snowflakes, a hundred or so of them. I would suggest to our curious savans an examination of Sabbath snow, to see if it has a peculiarly sharp and injurious crystal.”