George Washington Parke Custis was Martha Washington's grandson. George Custis’ father died the same year he was born. Young George then went to live with Martha, his grandmother, and George Washington, his step-grandfather. He was then on raised on Mount Vernon by President and Mrs. Washington as their own child. George W. P. Custis greatly admired George Washington and Loved him like a Father. He had this to say about our first president:

On Sundays, unless the weather was uncommonly severe, the President and Mrs. Washington attended divine services at Christ Church, and in the evenings , the President read to Mrs. Washington, in her chamber, a sermon, or some portion from the sacred writings. No visitors, with the exception of Mr. Speaker Trumbull, were admitted on Sundays.

I think it is interesting to see how America's first president spent the Lord's Day. His Sunday practice was then followed by a great segment of the population. The Lord’s Day was then seen as a day of worship, rest and family. The Blue laws that were once common in this land, even when I was young, were written so that the law reflected what was then the cultural norm.

Today what used to be the Lord's Day is just another day for most of us. It’s a day to rush home and participate in one of America's favorite religious past times "pro-football" or it is another day to spend at the mall etc... These are but a couple of small examples of how far we have moved away from the Christian culture of our Fathers.

In earlier times, because ours was a Christian culture, it was believed that folks were not to work on Sunday, unless what they were doing was an act of necessity or a work of mercy. Now, I am sad to say, everything and even anything is ok.

George and Martha's simpler Sunday's were what would be expected from people living out their lives in a Christian culture. I hope and pray that our children or grandchildren may live in a land that has, by God's grace, returned to her Christian roots.

Soli Deo Gloria,
Kenith
Ps. George W. P. Custis was also the father-in-law of another devout Christian man; Robert E. Lee.