Lord's Day 26 (2018). Psalms 118:24. This is the day which the Lord hath made. “We will rejoice and be glad in it - The psalmist, and all who united with him in his thanksgivings. So the Christian Sabbath. It is a day of joy - all joy, and no sorrow. It is a day to be happy in; a day of rest; a day, when the cares and toils of life are suspended; a day, when we are no longer harassed with those things which vex us in the worldliness of the week; a day, when we think of God, of redemption, of hope, of heaven. The Sabbath should be a day of joy, and not of gloom; it would be the happiest of all days to weary and jaded people everywhere, if they observed it aright. In a world of toil and sorrow, it is among the richest of God's blessings to people; it strengthens, refreshes, and cheers the heart of burdened and sorrowful man here; it lifts the soul to joyous contemplation of that eternal Sabbath where wearisome toll and sorrow shall be no more.” Barnes. “they have not acted incorrectly, who have abolished all days except ‘the Lord’s Day’” Jerome Zanchius. "Christ is born, is circumcised, dies, rises again for us every day in the preaching of the Gospel." Lambert Danæu.
