A Scotch Sabbath is a purgatory to a worldling. But the Lord's day is a day of sober meditation and of spiritual delight to those who have faith in Divine teachings. Sobriety and joy are not inconsistent terms. May-poles, feasting, and dancing, which agreed with the taste of King Charles' Christians, were the horror of those of Covenanter stock; whilst attendance on the house of God, and a reverence for its ministrations and ordinances, were the joy of the latter, and will be of their spiritual descendants from generation to generation.
