The Use of Sunday

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 139, 7 March 1936, Page 18

The Use of Sunday

“Sunday is the student's day, whereon he may turn from the ordinary to the sublimer world of thought and find new inspiration for his daily endeavour. It is the doubter’s day, on which he may investigate the most momentous question of God, and duty and destiny. It is the children’s day. when the home circle may be perfect, and sweet memories be planted which shall fill the later years with their fragrance. . . . “The Sabbath is the poor man’s day, when he can have leisure to reward the love of wife and children, and go with them to the House of God. “It is the rich man’s day, when, if he will, he may throw off the burdens of anxiety and prove ■to his family that there are some things he prizes as much as stocks and estates, and silver and gold—a day when he may transfer some of his treasures to the heavens and fix his heart on things above. “It is the mourner's day, on which eyes that weep in sore bereavement may look upward and bear a voice out of the heavens say, Tn My Father's house are many mansions.’- It is the true all saints’ day, when, rising above the littleness, the rivalries, the limitations of this life, we may look through Sabbath skies to the innumerable company in tlie city on Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem.” —Rev. Alfred Thomas, M.A., in his new book, "The Legacies of Christ.”