The Bible says you should keep the Sabbath day holy. Well, in the Bible the penalty for not doing so is death. We don't go that far. We just give you a summons.
Commenting on the local blue laws:
When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.
Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been.
The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
