A Factory Owner’s Story (Exodus 20:8)
“After I was convinced of my sin,” said an English businessman, “I continued to work my mills and sell meal and flour on the Lord’s day as usual. But in this practice I soon became very uneasy, being continually followed by those words, ‘Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy’ (Ex. 20:8). I at last determined, whatever might be the consequence, to give it up. Accordingly my mills were stopped; I ground no more, and I informed my customers that I would no longer serve them on the sabbath, and hoped they would come on a Saturday evening. Some pitied me; others said they would go to other shops; and almost all thought I should soon break my strange resolution. “The next Sunday they came as usual, but were all refused. Their displeasure was general, and they went to other millers. The next week, however, many of them came on a Saturday evening, and were served; and in a short time, all, or as many as I had before, returned; and now, so far from being poorer, on account of this determination to keep the sabbath, which many of them said would be my ruin, I am this day at least one thousand pounds richer than I was before I made this resolution.”
AMG Bible Illustrations, Bible Illustrations Series (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, 2000).
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