The Bible Column - I Want Sunday For Myself (Part 3)

“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” Hebrews 10:25
Please consider the third segment of the article entitled “I Want Sunday For Myself”. I wish to quote from the old McGuffey reader, which our parents and grandparents used to have as assigned reading in school, before our modern educationists excluded God and the Bible:
“Sunday lies at the foundation of all true morality. Morality flows from principles. Let the principles of moral obligation become relaxed, and the practice of morality will not long survive the overthrow. No man can preserve his own morals, no parent can preserve the morals of his children, without the impressions of religious obligation.”
“If you can induce a community to doubt the genuineness and authenticity of the Scriptures; to question the reality and obligations of religion; to hesitate, undeciding, whether there be any such thing as virtue or vice; whether there be an eternal state of retribution beyond the grave; or whether there exists any such being as God, you have broken down the barriers of moral virtue, and hoisted the flood gates of immorality and crime. I need not say that when a people have done this, they can no longer exist as a tranquil and happy people. Every bond that holds society together would be ruptured; fraud and treachery would take the place of confidence between man and man; the tribunals of justice would be scenes of bribery and injustice; avarice, perjury, ambition and revenge would walk through the land, and render it more like a dwelling place of savage beasts than the tranquil abode of civilized and Christian men.”
We’ll finish the article next week, the Lord willing!