So manifold are the blessings God has poured out upon contemporary America, that the average man has not merely one day, but two, out of every week in which he may seek Almighty God in worship. A tragic paradox is that the very abundance of contemporary blessings has become the occasion for increasing neglect of the day of worship.

What an oddity that man, finding himself with two or three days on his hands, promptly decides to make them all for pleasure and leave God out of his life altogether! The neglect of the day of worship is a basic wrong that shall cry to God til it is righted, or until the spiritual basis of society is removed altogether and man finds himself once more strapped to his plow or his machine, as presently is the case in godless slave states.

One sometimes hears the cry, “Sunday is the only day I have!” On the contrary, it is the only day one does not have; it is the Lord’s Day. Christ claimed the first day of the week through His resurrection on that day and the earliest Christians gave it to Him by fidelity of their pre-dawn devotions in the darkness of those ancient assemblies.

Their faithfulness won the day for all succeeding generations, a day primarily for rest and worship. God forbid that Sunday should be lightly thrown away by a godless, secular society which dares to seize it for lust or pleasure, forgetting its origin, and making its ultimate loss a certainty.

— Burton Coffman –