The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

Johnson distinguishes between “superstitious” attachment to particular calendar days and the Church’s practical use of fixed festivals as commemorations of decisive events in sacred history. The point is not that December 25 has intrinsic holiness, but that communal memory and devotion need structure: without an appointed time, even important duties are easily postponed and eventually omitted. The remark reflects Johnson’s Anglican sensibility—valuing ordered public worship and tradition while resisting the idea that holiness inheres in dates themselves. It also anticipates a broader moral theme in his thought: human frailty makes regular habits and institutions necessary supports for serious belief and practice.