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title: 'Samuel Miller on Lord’s Day Observance at Princeton Theological Seminary'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-10-05
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-samuel-miller-on-lords-day-observance-at-princeton-theological-seminary
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# Samuel Miller on Lord’s Day Observance at Princeton Theological Seminary

“The whole of every Lord’s day is to be devoted to devotional exercises, either of a social or secret kind. Intellectual pursuits, not immediately connected with devotion, or the religion of the heart, are on that day to be forborne. The books to be read are to be of a practical nature. The conversations had with each other are to be chiefly on religious subjects. Associations for prayer and praise, and for religious conference, calculated to promote a growth in grace, are also proper for this day; subject to such regulations as the Professors and Directors may see proper to prescribe. It is wished and recommended, that each student should ordinarily set apart one day in a month for special prayer and self-examination in secret, and also that he should, on suitable occasions, attend to the duty of fasting.” — [**Samuel Miller**](/authors/samuel-miller), *A Brief History of the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church at Princeton, New Jersey; Together With Its Constitution, By*-*Laws*, &*c*. (1837, 1838), p. 20