Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. THE SABBATH OP THE LORD. The Sabbath to William was a day of great delight. It was a foretaste of the eternal Sabbath. It was not merely a cessation from manual labour. Work had but little effect on him. It was the service of God, and the company of God’s people, that rendered the day so pleasant. He would admire the warbling notes of the feathered tribe, as they raised their voices towards heaven. All seemed happy. The works of the Lord were full of praise; and our brother joined heartily, and louder than all, because of redemption through the death of the cross. This formed another song for him. His song was unto God, and unto the Lamb. He was washed; he was sanctified; he was justified in thename of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. But one thing greatly pained his heart on the Sabbath. This was to witness so much desecration of that holy day. The professing Christian was not always exempt. It was a deep grief to him to see?above all men?the professor among the class of Sabbath-breakers. How disgraceful is this in a Christian! sleeping and loitering away the time that should be spent in the house of God. Such persons do not turn away their feet from the Sabbath ?from doing their own pleasure on God’s holy day. They do not consistently call it
a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable. But they dishonour God, find their own pleasure, and speak their own words. Now persons professing to love God, and yet acting thus contrary, were characters whom he could not understand. And what real Christian can approve of their conduct? Is it not a proof that the love of God is not in them, or, at least, that it has grown exceedingly cold? His surviving friends may be assured, then, that such conduct was extremely painful to his mind; because he knew th…