THE SABBATH by S. R. C. Denison

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Oct 28, 1852

THE SABBATH.

By S. R. C. Denison

BY S. R. C. DENISON.

AND is it as some teachers say, That none of us are able To keep the Holy Sabbath-day, As written on the Table ?

They tell us 'tis a Jewish rite, Made for the Hebrews solely; And if we strive with all our might, We ne'er can keep it holy.

A yoke of bondage 'tis, they say, And you cannot bind freed men, In this enlightened, Christian day, With fetters—forged in Eden.

But, in a round of seven days, All say we should rest one day; And none refuse to keep the seventh, If it but come on Sunday.

To me it is a thing quite strange, (Perhaps there are things stranger,) How they can keep the seventh day On Sunday, without danger.

If we observe the Sabbath-day, We fall from grace, most surely; But Sunday is a festal day, Its keepers stand securely.

But in the glorious earth, made new, Where none from grace will sever, We see the Sabbath brought to view, And there observed for ever.

How blind, by sin, lost man is made! In folly, how transcendent! His strength, though weakness, still arrayed Against the fourth commandment.