“It will be greatly to the advantage of Christians, when they can close the business of the week, so as to afford themselves the Saturday evening as a preparation season. Then, anticipating the day of rest, they may disentangle their thoughts from earth, and direct them towards heaven. They may begin to plume the wings of the soul for a flight into purer regions. Holy time will then come on like the dawnings of immortality, and be met, by the exultant heart, with the song of David: ‘This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it,’ Psa. cxviii. 24.” - J.B. Waterbury, A Book For the Sabbath (1840), p. 49