The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-22
What Is a Good Sabbath?
Terse Comments for April %, Sab
bath Benefits" lisa. 5S:1-4.
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

There is no profit in the Sabbath
that is not holy Sabbath. Above all
else, this is a hallowed day. set aside
for sacred purposes, and its end is not
achieved unless it is observed as such.
The only Sabbath that is freighted
with blessings is the Sabbath that is
kept holy to the Lord.
The quiet and rest and solemnity of
the Sabbath should lift our, hearts
nearer to heaven, and make more real
and close to US the endless Sabbath in
the new home. This is one Of the
good things that each returning rest
day should bring us-a clearer under
standing Of and greater love for, the
heavenly life and the heavenly world.
A profitable Sabbath is the one
which We have helped make profitable
for some one else.
The cares of the week. and the af-
fairs of every day, should be put aside
on Sunday. That should be special
day. The difference between the first
day of the week and the other six
ought to be clearly manifested. Fill
Sunday with new interests. Reading
and conversation and apparel and
meals and conduct in the home should
all bear the impress of this particular
day. BY every available means en-
deavor to give a Sabbath: character to
the day that has been set apart for the
honor of God.
That Sabbath is profitable wherein
we gain new thoughts about God. AS
we grow in the knowledge of the Lord
we grow in grace.
Isaiah has some wise and stirring
words concerning the Sabbath that
have a present-day application: eff
thou turn away thy foot from the
Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on
my holy day, and call the Sabbath a
delight. the holy of the Lord, honor
able, and shalt honor him, not doing
fhU fndinor thine
pleasure, nor speaking thine own
words; then shalt thou delight myself
in the Lord; and 1 will cause thee to
ride upon the high places of the earth,
and feed thee with the heritage of
Jacob, thy father: for the mouth of
the Lord hath spoke it,
'This is the day of rest:
Our failing strength renew;
On weary brain and troubled breast,
Shed thou thy freshening dew
That is mistaken notion which
counts the Sabbath a day of gloom.
No other day in all the week should
be filled with such brightness and joy
as the day that commentaries the
completion Of Gods work of creation
and redemption. We do not get all
the possible good out of Sabbath I'M
less we get a refreshing and beauti-
flying of life that will make the whole
week gladder.
Worship is one of Gods chief pur-
poses IN the Sabbath. No Sabbath is
complete and profitable that is not
worshipful. This is the day set aside
for alteration and supplication and
/ communion. Going to church is not
| alone enough to make a Sabbath
profitable; there must be also sincere
and devout worship from the indi-
vidua1 heart.
The weeks work, that is to say, the
worlds work. should be laid aside on
Sunday, but there is other work that
We can do that will add to the help
fulness and sanctity of the day. Min
| istry to the sick and needy is a Sab
bath service So, pre-eminently, is the
| teaching or preaching of the word.
The hours of Sabbath that are free
| from other holy service should be thus
spent in loving deeds of ministry in