J.C. Penney, founder of the J.C. Penney chain of retail clothing stores, is credited with the following statement: "If a man's business requires so much of his time that he cannot attend the Sunday morning and evening services, and Wednesday night prayer meeting, then that man has more business than God intended him to have."

James Garfield, one of the Presidents of the United States, is a good example of not having more business than God intended for him to have, in reference to keeping the Lord's appointments. During the first week of Garfield's presidency, a member of his cabinet insisted that he should attend the cabinet meeting which had been called for 10:00 a.m. on Sunday. It was a matter dealing with a national crisis, but President Garfield refused on the grounds that he had another appointment. The cabinet member insisted that he break his appointment. Still, Garfield refused. Then the cabinet member remarked, "I should be interested to know with whom you could have an appointment so important that it cannot be broken?" But President Garfield replied: "I will be as frank as you are. My engagement is with the Lord, to meet Him at His house, at His table, at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, and I shall be there." President Garfield sanctioned the Lord's Day; the crisis passed and our nation survived.