Litchfield enquirer., 1841-12-23
VALUE OF THE SABBATH.

the Sabbath as u does that ot daily rest and sleep. We cannot doubt that God had this want of the human constitution in view by the iRstitutiOn of the Sabbalh.- He has made that a moral law, and for great moral and religious purposes, which nature also asks in order that the physical machinery may be kept in the best order. No man can rob himself of daily rest with impunity. His system gives immediate in- dicalion of an outrage.
 Nor can he deny himself of weekly rest with impunty. There may not be the same open and immediate remonstrance by the physical system, but persistence in the wrong will bring it in due time.
 Speaking of the death of Lord Castle'-' reagh, the English prime minister, by suicide, Mir. Wilberforce, who knew him well, remarks, "The strong impression of my mind was that his Arrangement was the effect of non-observance of the Sabbath, needful, both as abstracting from politics, from the constant return of the saMe re- factions, and os correcting the false views of worldly things, and bringing them down. to their true denomination" The mind of the minister was constantly in fervor of excitement, without any opportunity to cool by the Sabbath's rapose, which he discarded, and thus to gain strength for re- newed exertion, the unceasing flame con- sumed him. His mental powers could not sustain this incessant action. Not guided by the law of God, which was wisely and bene evolently adapted to the wants ot nature, his desecration of the Sabbath was viola-' ton at the same time of the laws of his be- ing. The wreck of his rational powers was the consequence of this defiance ofthe divine will, and neglect of the provision of an all-wise Ged.,
 Sir Samuel Romily, ono of the brightest ornaments of the legal profession, died also by suicide, while under mental de- rangement. He was also an intimate ac- Lquaintance of Wilberforce. who thus speaks fof him in letter to a friend: '' am strongly impressed by the recollection of your eHdeavor to prevail on the lawyers to give hp Sunday consultations, in which : poor Romily would not concur. 1.-The had suffered his mind to enjoy such occasional remissions, it is highly probable the strings would never have snapped as they did from over tension." It is thus that the viola ted laws of our physical nature resent tho outrage. We cannot but view the law of tUO OuUUutU dO bDOSA PV"Ossub 0WN guardian of mans temporal happiness, by preserving from over-action, and in their most hcallh(ui tone, his mental aud bodily powers.
 The demand of our nature for a weekly Sabbath has been fully proved by careful inquiries on this point by distinguished sci-' entfc and professional men. An elabor- ] ate investigation by a committee of the , British House of Commons, gave t%n Or 1 .,' .s:, me Tb S,,osvr,ps c ,n %,'' ."s loI- medically speaking, is that of rest. It is a day cf compensatinh for the inadequate restorative power ofthe body under contin- ued labor and excitement. The Sabbath institution is not simply a precept partak- ing of the nature of a political institution, bat it is to be numbered among the natural duties, if the preservation of life be admit ted 10 be a duty, and tho premature des- truc.ion of it a suicidal act. This is said without respect at all to the theological question:"
 But we love also to look at ,he ,heols- gcaI aspects. We love to see the harmo-' ny of revelation with nature. We love to sss the evidence, as we do on all hands,, of the nice and wise and kind adaptation of divine precepts to the natural constitution of man. We find thus no clashjng between God that made, and him who is revealed as gsverIur of the world. The Iiarmony of his operations in physical and mOrap laws, afford striking evidence that he who spoke the earth into existence, |" hath in these last days spoken by his Son." | Boston Recorder. Singular Warming. The following incl dent may not be credited, but it is corrobor- ated by the most positive evidence, and even if thought apocryphal, will add another in- stance to the already numerous accounts of mysterious warnings from the other world.
 It seems that Monsieur De C., nler-' chant of New Orleans, proceeded to Paris early in the fall, for the purpose ofsupplying his store with winter goods. On the 23d of September last about two o'clock in the morning, he was awakened from an uneasy slumber by rustling Of the curtains about his couch. He felt an icy hand clasped in his own, and a voice. like that of his, son, ex- claimed, "FGther 4 ana dying" When the merchant arose, he made note of the fact at the sane time trying to regard the whole affair as an idle whim But go where he, would, the voice rang in his ears, "father. I am dying :" and the pale spectre-face was ever before him. Alter lapse oftwo weeks he returned home, and a few days since he arrived in New Orleans. He hurried from rhe quay to his house, and on the way he passed one of the principal cemeteries of the city, Looking into the grave yard. his att tention was attracted by marble monument,