Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-08-23
SABBATH VIOLATION.
DE SURE AND WIND UP THE CLOCK on sun


DAY.
I passed the night in D., with an
enterprisiug citizen, and in the morning as
he was stepping into the Stage to be absent
for week, he said to his wife, my dear,
TO be sure and wind up the clock Sunday
lie was a good citizen, and believed his
Bible, and had often read the divine di.
rection about the Sabbath. In it thou
shalt not do any, wonder he had not
said to be sure and have all your little mat
ters adjusted before the Sabbath, that you
and your children may spend the whole
day serving God, and preparing for eter-
nifty. But instead OF that he said, be sure
and wind up the clock Sunday This
direction run through my mind for hours,
and as the thought expanded a little found
my friend D-was much like other peo.
pie, reserving many little things to be
done on the Lords day. though, as |
passed the streets, that could see many
long boards that we're to be cut on Sunday,
and many counting the time till Sabbath,
that their boots, shoes, aud clothes nigh:
be brushed. | could see others accuslom.
ed to look upon their stray sheep or cat
tie, TO walk around their distant fields of
grass and grain, to see whether the fences
were all safe or to learn whether the hocks
and herds did not need some attention
that could not be well afforded on any 9th.
er day.
Others make the Sabbath delight be-
cause they can hear and tell the news as
they 60 10 and from the church, and at
The recess, and in the family circles after
their return. They really learn more up
on the Sabbath than they do from their
visitors, periodicals and books, the other six
days. A worldly man once said, i love
to 90 to church, it is such a capital place
to hear the news
Many singular plans are devised about
the house of God. Appointments are
made for visiting; errands are done to save
time; friends meet and exchange their
messages of love and friendship; pleasure
boats, pleasure coaches and horses, are
in great demand upon the Lords day.
Many who find diseases creeping upon
themselves or their children, wait till Sab
bath, and then seek medical advice, so that
many physicians and apothecaries must
do twice as much business, as upon other
days. 1t is not strange for the sick to
see multitudes of pretended friends upon
that holy day. They are left without con-
ISOLATION or aid six days, but on the seventh
their rooms are crowded to sutfocation,
and many sufferer has lost his life by this
periodical kindness.
Most of courts set Monday, and I know
one eminent lawyer who will 60 on Sat-
urday, or will not 60 till Monday, and he is
exerting most salutary influence upon the
bar, in that whole region. Others both
judges and lawyers, (some standing high
too in the church), do not remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy but in sight
of the common people who look up to
professional men for example, ride across
their country on the Sabbath 50 is 10 Oc
ready at court.
The Jews used TO make the day pre-
vious, day of preparation for the Sab.
bath, bu, we strangely reverse it, and
make the Sabbath a day of prepartion for
the week, and also time to bring up nu-
merous little arrearages, that are deferred
till some more leisure day.
This systematic Sabbath breaking, has
become so common, that ifthe best OF your
readers will examine themselves careful
", they will find some form of this sin ha-
bltual.-Cincinnati Journal.