Sabbath — Heed to be Awakened for – Charles Spurgeon

At harbour , in the Hartz Mountains, we were awakened early in the morning, according to an ancient custom, by the sound of a trumpet, which made us pray that when the last trumpet sounds it may awaken us to an endless Sabbath. It was well if all hearts and minds heard at the dawn of the Lord’s-day, “The sound as of a trumpet,” so that every faculty might be aroused to the highest activity of holy service. Sleepy hearing, praying, and singing are terrible; sleepy preaching and teaching are worse, yet how common they are, and how needful is the trumpet at the ear of many!