SABBATH

Related Subjects: Church, Rest

1. There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.—H. W. BEECHER
   

2. Sunday is the common people's great Liberty day, and they are bound to see to it that work does not come into it.—H. W. BEECHER
   

3. God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other—it is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest, for instruction, for social worship, for gaining strength for the
   other six.—H. W. BEECHER
   

4. A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the joyous day of the whole week.—H. W. BEECHER
   

5. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.—Bible, Exodus 20:8-11
   

6. The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.—Bible, Mark 2:27
   

7. Of all the days that's in the week
   I dearly love but one day,
   And that's the day that comes betwixt
   A Saturday and Monday.—HENRY CAREY, Sally in Our Alley
   

8. I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.—COLERIDGE
   

9. There is a Sunday conscience, as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.—DICKENS
   

10. Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
    I keep it staying at home,
    With a bobolink for a chorister,
    And an orchard for a dome.—EMILY DICKINSON, Nature
    

11. The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. It invites to the noblest solitude and to the noblest society.—EMERSON
    

12. Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.—LONGFELLOW
    

13. Sunday is like a stile between the fields bf toil, where we can kneel and pray, or sit and meditate.—LONGFELLOW
    

14. He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor.—LOWELL
    

15. The only ground, therefore, on which restrictions on Sunday amusements can be defended must be that they are religiously wrong; a motive of legislation which can never be too earnestly protested against.—J. S. MILL, On Liberty
    

16. Without a Sabbath, no worship; without worship, no religion; and without religion, no permanent freedom.—MONTALEMBERT
    

17. Tomorrow our holy day comes,
    Which our merciful Father has given,
    That we may rest from our work
    And prepare for His beautiful Heaven.—NANCY D. SPROAT, Lullabies for Children
    

18. The longer I live the more highly do I estimate the Christian Sabbath, and the more grateful do I feel to those who impress its importance on the community.—DANIEL WEBSTER