DISCIPLINE TO BE ENFORCED.
The following paragraph which concludes the paper, shows that an effort is to be made to bring members of churches, by exhortation and discipline, up to a more rigid observance of the so-called Christian Sabbath:— “We believe that everything which makes us thankful for the past, and hopeful of the future, is inseparably linked to the hallowed observance of the Lord’s day. Hence, it is with profound grief we witness its increasing desecration, and observe, in the language of our Larger Catechism, ‘That Satan with his instruments must labor to blot out the glory, and even the memory of it, and to bring in all irreligion and impiety.’” “We therefore enjoin upon all our ministers to read this paper from their various pulpits on the first Lord’s day of October, and to urge their people, plainly and pointedly, to avoid the forms of Sabbath-breaking herein mentioned, and all other modes of profanation by which the day is dishonored, and the wrath of God incurred; and we further enjoin upon our church sessions, in every case of such violation, promptly to apply the correction of a firm and efficient discipline.”