Sunday is a day for rést—physical yost—but its' chief significance i its spiritual character and val It isa day set apart for the intenaive culture of the spiritual life, Some non-observers say they are ust as good ay some of those who! observe it. That may be, but, a8 ment for or against, it's to mo to have very little' value, It simply amounts to a claim of one man to be better without its help than someone else is with its help. Of the effect of our observance has been go inadequate in deepening and purifying and spivitualising. our character, wha: will the effect be if we neglect it? Those of ux who seek to observe it and, by so doing, Feap some of its benefits, do not therefore claim to he better than non-observers, but we do claim to better than we should be without ity help, "That famous preacher, Robertson, said do feel by exper obligation, because of the ete necessity of the Sabbath. The soul withers without it, Tt thrives proportion to the fidelity of its observance." Te, of course, re-Serred to the Christian Sunday. Its observance is necessary,.not be-ouse it was observed by' the early Apostles; it was observed by them Because they found it necessary.
Our Lord emphasised two commandments—(1) love to God; (2) Have to one's neighbour. At the root of God's law about the Sabbath is, God's love to man. At the root of man's observance of the Christian JSabbath is man's love to. God. The [Jews legalized the Sabbat! [strongly tempted to materi Christian Sunday. We regard it as one of our imperative duties, to say nothing of one of our greatest privileges, to seek valise "it, The man who hat appreciation of Jesus Christ will have still less of His Day. It will never'be the Lord's Day to us until we are or seek to be the Lord's. servants,
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