Leonard Woolsey Bacon—Congregationalist, Connecticut, not a man satisfied with occasional goodwill—takes James 1:27 and makes it structural. Not inspirational. Structural. A systematic portion of the Sabbath: mercy. Deacons and deaconesses on official errands to the poor. Not when convenient. On the Lord’s Day itself. One appreciates the instinct to pause at this. But Bacon’s point is rather hard to argue with if you’ve actually read the verse he’s quoting.
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