7. Doing whatever promotes the worship and honoring of God by ourselves
or by others. [Jas. 1:27+]

A DAY OF REST. Sunday is meant for the good of the soul. But a rest on
one day out of seven is necessary also for the welfare of the body.
Sunday is a blessed privilege for body, mind, and soul. Sometimes,
however, both the rest for body and mind and the attendance at church
must be sacrificed in order to perform works of mercy as a duty to our
fellow-men.

THE CHURCH-YEAR. The Church has also arranged a Church-year for the
commemoration of the principal events in the Savior's life. The order of
the Church-year is as follows: Four Sundays in Advent, Christmas, New
Year, Epiphany (January 6), from two to six Sundays after Epiphany
(according as Easter comes early or late); three Sundays called
Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinquagesima; Ash Wednesday (the first day in
Lent), six Sundays in Lent (the sixth being Palm Sunday), Holy Week
(including Good Friday), Easter, five Sundays after Easter, Ascension
Day, Sunday after Ascension, Pentecost or Whitsunday, Trinity Sunday;
and from twenty-three to twenty-seven Sundays after Trinity. The
Lutheran Church observes also the festival of the Reformation on the
31st day of October. Each Sunday and Festival Day has its own Gospel and
Epistle lesson, as well as its own Introit and Collect.

QUESTIONS.--1. What is the difference between Sabbath and Sunday? 2. Why
is Sunday to be a day of rest? 3. What does this commandment forbid? 4.
In what way is this commandment broken? 5, What does this commandment
command? 6. How is this commandment to be kept? 7. Why is Sunday a
blessed privilege? 8. When must our Sunday's rest and our attendance at
church be sacrificed? 9. What is the object of the Church-year? 10. Give