Christian Home-Life, a Book of Examples and Principles [By S.S. Pugh] (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... 151 CHAPTER X. THE LORD'S DAY AT HOME. We have no need, in considering Christian homelife, to argue the sacred obligations of the Lord's day. The object of this chapter is to show how this day may be, as good Philip Henry called it, "the queen of days, the pearl of the week," to all the inmates of the house; how it may be identified with the early life of childhood as a happy day; how even children may be led to recognise... "The beauty of the Sabbath kept With conscientious reverence, as a day By the almighty Lawgiver pronounced Holy and blest."1 1. In order to this, the sacred obligations of the day must be faithfully maintained. Tie great moral power of the Sabbath, and its great charm too, is in the fact of its Divine institution. No arrangement of convenience, no appropriation of a day to religious services by any legal enactment, could possibly stand in stead of this Divine ordinance. The recollection that God himself at the Creation blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; that he placed among the laws of unchanging moral obligation the command to "remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy;" the fact of the transfer of the day 1 Wordsworth. of rest and holy service to the first day of the week, a day signalized by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, all combine to give to the observance of this day an interest that no day of human appointment, whatever charm of "hoar antiquity" it might have, could possibly possess. It is identified with our warmest Christian sympathies, with our loftiest Christian hopes. And it is a prime condition of Christian home-life, that the sacred character of the day should be full/ and faithfully maintained. Laxity here will be sure to induce, if it does not indeed betray, laxness of...