3792 — Observing the Sabbath
By Editor
If one is living in a community where there is no Sabbath-school or church to attend, is he breaking the Sabbath by walking about in the city, or ought he to stay within his own gates? The rule for keeping the Lord's Sabbath is found in Isa. 58:13: "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." We do not see how any one could rightly worship God and be roaming around a busy city. It would seem as tho, if the man knows God, he would want to spend time in communing with God, and in the study of God's Word, or going on some errand of mercy, rather than mingling in a general, purposeless way with people of the world.