74 THE LAW ON THE SABBATH.

disobedience to God's. law which had caused all their long
suffering. They. promised in tears that they would keep
his law after this.

Children, “Remember the sabbath day to keep it
holy.” Remember that whenever. you go off in the fields
to play ball, or gather nuts or berries on the sabbath, you
are not keeping God’s day holy. God sees us all the time,
even if we are out of sight of father and mother, and he
will, in time, punish us as he did Israel of old. Many
young men who are in prison have said that they began
the downward course which led to their ruin by breaking
this holy day.

We should go on the sabbath where the gospel is
preached, and seek for all the light we can get concerning
the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.

If we would worship God truly on the sabbath day,
Wwe must give Him our hearts, and become his meek and
humble followers. “If thou turn away thy foot from the
sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and
call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable ;
and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor find-
ing thine own pleasure,-nor speaking thine own words,
then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will
cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and
feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the
mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”