‘Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.’
Mothers can effect much by domestic arrangement, and forethought.
I. Make Saturday a ‘day of preparation.’ ‘Bake that which ye will bake to-day,’ &c. Exod. xvi. 5, 23. Mark, xv. 42. Luke, xxiii. 54.
II. Endeavour to make the Sunday
1. A holy day.
Exod. xx. 10, 11. Deut. v. 12. Gen. ii. 3.
To sanctify, signifies to set apart for a holy purpose. Thus in the New Testament the Sabbath is called ‘the Lord’s day.’ Rev. i. 10, because a day devoted to His service.
2. A resting day.
Gen. ii. 3. Lev. xxiii. 3. Matt. xxiii. 56.
Called ‘the Sabbath of rest.’ Lev. xxiii. 3. And ‘the rest of the holy Sabbath.’ Exod. xvi. 23. Sabbath signifies rest, and heaven, of which it is a type, is called, ‘the keeping of a Sabbath.’ Heb. iv. 9.