"Nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates."
By James White
THOSE who would keep the Sabbath correctly, must be governed in its observance by the Sabbath law. That requires not only that we should rest, the son, and the daughter, but also, the stranger that is within thy gates. God's law requires that all who remain in our dwellings should join us in observing the rest of the holy Sabbath. We may endeavor to keep the Sabbath, yet if our childreu are left to break it, the sin will fall on us. So with visitors or boarders. If we suffer them to remain with us, and violate the rest of the Sabbath, the sin will fall upon our heads; for the Commandment says, "nor thy stranger that is within thy gates." The fact that some of our brethren will suffer visitors to remain with them and violate the Sabbath, while others suffer not only their small children, but those that are grown up, to trample on the Fourth Commandment before their eyes, has led us to make these remarks. Parents should do all in their power to win their grown up children to keep the Sabbath; but if they will not yield to the entreaties of love and mercy, and are too large and too old to be compelled to obedience, they are certainly too large and too old to remain at home. For those who take Sabbath-breaking boarders there seems not a shade of excuse. Such cannot rest on the Sabbath-day according to the Commandment.