p. 94 | HOW SWEET IS THE SABBATH by H. B.

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 5, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 6

HOW SWEET IS THE SABBATH.

By H. B.

How sweet is the Sabbath to lighten my lot! There is joy in my heart, there is peace in my cot; Its moments are precious, and sweetly they glide, As I read and I sing at my own fireside.

How sweet is the Sabbath, the laborers cry, Rich gift unto man from his Maker on high; 'Tis the day we can gather, with children and wife, Away from the world with its din and its strife.

How sweet is the Sabbath to all of our kind, Bringing rest for the body and food for the mind; It comes, like the sunshine, to scatter the gloom We meet in our way ’tween the cradle and tomb.

How sweet is the Sabbath to young and to old, More precious by far than treasures of gold; It comes, like the morn, with its sweet rays of light, Dispersing the darkness and dullness of night.

How sweet is the Sabbath, the Christian will sing, While his heart swells with joy to his Saviour and King, Sweet foretaste on earth of the Sabbath above, Where all will be peace and ineffable love.

How sweet is the Sabbath, we know by the past, Then, oh! let us prize it, and hold it more fast, And may this be our theme, till we join with the blest, “How sweet is the Sabbath—the Sabbath of rest.”

H. B.