How unutterly mean is the behavior of the Sabbath breaker. It is as though a man had a large estate, and he said to his employees: “Now, I will give you to-day for yourselves—you need not toil a particle;” and then, at the close of day, the employer should find out that they had been stealing out of the corn-crib, not content with the rest he had given them.
Just so those do who, when God tells them to rest, and gives them an opportunity to rest, employ the hours for their own enjoyment, neglecting, or entirely overlooking the fact that God all the time on the Sabbath day is just as busy for them as He is on any other day. Their corn is growing just as rapidly on Sabbath as ‘on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
Their bonds and mortgages are bringing just as much interest. Although God has given them a day of rest, He has not taken His hand from their worldly interests.—TALMAGE.
