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The Sabbath

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 19.

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The Sabbath.

The institution of the Sabbath-day, consecrated as that on which God ceased from all his works, surveyed them, and pronounced all very good, is so well calculated to cherish the spiritual and contemplative life, so beautifully suited to invite the spirit of devotion from the depth of the soul, to rejoice in the light of God's countenance periodically, that no other ordinance can be conceived, at once more congenial to all those thoughts and feelings by which self-improvement proceeds onward.
Volumes could not contain an account of all the advantages that result to the soul from the institution of the Sabbath. It was truly made for man. Even those who, instead of welcoming it, do all but curse the anticipation of the hallowed morn, are greatly benefited by it when it comes. It does good to all. It brings, as it were, the breath of God even to the nostrils of the most wicked. It is a sore trial to the worldling. He can scarcely defend himself against its influence but by cursing it. And many yield to its blessed influences, and are brought to God by it. And those who go the other way, if they confess all before they die, generally confess this—that the neglect and violation of the Sabbath, was the beginning of their strength in crime.