3886—Meals on the Sabbath
By Editor
Can you suggest to me the best plan to pursue on the Sabbath day for those who have to board at restaurants and hotels? Is it best to allow them to serve us? We think our correspondent suggests a very good plan. It is one that the writer personally would follow if he were so situated, and that is to procure food on the day before the Sabbath, and eat it in one's own room. Of course there may be those who would feel that warm food, or food which they themselves could not prepare, would be better for them physically, and such we should not judge. In this we ourselves must recognize our personal responsibility to God. It certainly would minimize Sabbath work for us to procure food the day before, and eat it in our own rooms. Let us, however, in doing this not condemn others. Regarding the care of rooms, all work that could be left, it would be well to leave until after Sabbath. And yet if we were to invite the Lord into our rooms with us on the Sabbath day, the Lord would be pleased with a minimum amount of work which would make the room look presentable. It seems to us that such work as that would be regarded as done for His glory. A Sabbath certainly could not be pleasantly spent in a room that was in disorder, or unclean.