The house, and especially the kitchen, was thoroughly "redd up." Wood, water, and kindlings were brought in, clothes were brushed, boots greased or polished, dinner prepared, and in every way possible the whole house, its dwellers, and its belongings, made ready for the morrow.

So, when the Sabbath morning dawned, people awoke with a feeling that old things had passed away and that the whole world was new.

The sun shone with a radiance not known on other days.

He was shining upon holy things, and lighting men and women to holy duties.
Through all the farms the fields lay bathed in his genial glow, at rest, and the very trees stood in silent worship of the bending heavens.

Up from stable and from kitchen came no sounds of work.