Let the boots be blacked, and the baths be taken. See that all the clothing is in readiness, and that all the cooking is done. Make Friday the Preparation Day-On Friday let the preparation for the Sabbath be completed. During the week our energies will not be so exhausted in temporal labor that on the day when the Lord rested and was refreshed, we shall be too weary to engage in His service. No duty pertaining to the six working days will be left for the Sabbath. When the Sabbath is thus remembered, the temporal will not be allowed to encroach upon the spiritual. It is a day when the hands are to rest from worldly employment, when the soul's needs are to receive especial attention. All through the week keep the Lord's holy Sabbath in view, for that day is to be devoted to the service of God. Christian education is needed in your homes. And if you do this, you are giving the proper instruction to your children they will reverence God's holy day. Parents, you need to remember the Sabbath day yourselves to keep it holy. Heed First Word of the Fourth Commandment-“Remember” is placed at the very first of the Fourth Commandment. These youth finally lose all respect for the Sabbath and have no relish for religious meetings or for sacred and eternal things. Many go where they please, and do what they please and their parents are so fearful of displeasing them that, imitating the management of Eli, they lay no commands upon them.
They have felt no compunctions of conscience in going about the streets on the Sabbath for their own amusement. Many of these youth have been allowed to transgress the Fourth Commandment, by seeking their own pleasure upon God's holy day. They have not by living faith daily bound their children upon the altar of the Lord.
They have not restrained themselves and have been irritated with anyone who attempted to restrain them. Prevalent Disregard for the Sabbath-I have been shown that very many of the parents who profess to believe the solemn message for this time have not trained their children for God.
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