Editorial October 29, 1904 Issue

Remember the Sabbath Day

We recently received a request to say something in the Sentinel about the proper observance of the Sabbath, but the necessity for advice to Christian Scientists on this subject did not at once appeal to us. We have since concluded, however, that the very fact that such a request has been made is of itself proof that there may be such a need as our correspondent mentions, and that something can be said to the advantage of the Field.

The commandment is, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy," and with this in view it is needless to say that Christian Scientists will so order their conduct that the spirit and the letter of the law will coalesce in their lives, and that they may thus be saved from doing anything which can in any wise offend the highest moral and religious sense of the community. This is the moral and spiritual requirement of Christian Science, and adherence to the teachings of Science and Health and the Church Manual will bring it out in our daily living. We once heard of a lady who was so filled with the desire to show that Christian Science had liberated her from her former religious beliefs, that she really inconvenienced herself in order to save her weekly mending until Sunday so that she might do it on that day in full view of her neighbors. It is needless to say that this display of contempt for the proprieties did not raise her in the estimation of her neighbors, and that the Cause of Christian Science in the city in which she resided suffered by reason of her conduct.

Christian Scientists should know that this command to keep holy the Sabbath day does not mean that there is no call for them to keep holy the other days of the week. Every day is a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and should be made fruitful in the service of Truth, but this does not imply that a long countenance and a lugubrious manner should be cultivated or assumed for Sunday or any other day.

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