Transcriber's note: Italics is represented with underscore _ (_italics_) and small caps with ALL CAPS. The following correction has been made: p. 9: "members of one famliy" famliy changed to family. Everything else is retained as printed. THE SABBATH AT HOME. BY THE REV. SILAS M. ANDREWS. PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION. JAMES RUSSELL, PUBLISHING AGENT. 1840. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by A. W. MITCHELL, in the office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. THE SABBATH AT HOME. It is not proposed to dwell, in the following pages, upon the arguments that might be brought forward to prove that the Sabbath is a Divine institution, established and sanctified by the Creator on the seventh day, after all his works were finished, and renewed to Israel on the descent of the manna. Nor shall I attempt to show, from the Scriptures, that the Sabbath is a Christian institution, as well as a Jewish ordinance; or call your attention to the satisfactory reasons we have for observing, as holy time, the first day of the week, and not the seventh. No controversy will be maintained with any who object to the Sabbath as commonly acknowledged by Christians. He who sincerely seeks for instruction, has no need of such argument; he already believes the Sabbath is the Lord's, and that it is to be sanctified by a holy resting all the day. The design of this Tract is to point out and illustrate the most profitable manner of spending that part of the Lord's day which is not employed in the public exercises of Divine worship. That your family, in each of its members, may profitably spend _the Sabbath at home_,-- I. By Saturday evening have your worldly business arranged to keep the Sabbath. Few families pursue their business or trade, the same on the Sabbath as on any other day. But there are many who do not keep it as a sacred rest. If they do not plough and sow; if the sound of the anvil and the saw is not heard in their shops; if they do not, with open doors, buy and sell, and get gain; there is another species of worldly business to which they do attend, which, though not so much noticed by others, properly belongs to the six days in which work may be done. Such persons may be said to make arrangements, not to _keep_, but to _profane_ the Sabbath. "This matter need not be attended to now, while other things press upon us--it may be postponed until Sunday. That journey must be performed--that plan laid with my neighbour--that errand accomplished _next Sabbath_, or it will interfere with the business of the week."