Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The command to remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy, was never designed to forbid the performance of works of necessity and of mercy. There is a wide difference between taking delight in the duties and privileges of the Sabbath, and making a merit of the rigid external observance of it.
Nathan L. Rice, ‘The Origin and History of the Sabbath’ in The Christian Sabbath: Its History, Authority, Duties, Benefits, and Civil Relations. A Series of Discourses (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1863), p. 60.
N.B. The opposite error is the bigger problem in our day, but, still, it is a useful reminder.
Nathan L. Rice, ‘The Origin and History of the Sabbath’ in The Christian Sabbath: Its History, Authority, Duties, Benefits, and Civil Relations. A Series of Discourses (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1863), p. 60.
N.B. The opposite error is the bigger problem in our day, but, still, it is a useful reminder.