The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-08-22
Moral and Religious.
A SUNSET THOUGHT
FoR SATURDAY EVENING

FoR SATURDAY EVENING
Walking once along shady lane while the harvest
moon aliered through the trees upon the corn fields,
arkened here and there by the piled up shoaves imet
n party Of cleaners returning TO their cottages, with
their little bundles of wheat upon their heads. Tho
Saturday evening Oft the Christian may be compared to
the homcward path Of the CLEANER lie too, has been
wandering over many field of hore, of lenrnlng'or
of business Saturday evening is the gate Of Sunday
--before him lies
s'The sabbath ground to vernHl sunshine left"
At this gate we ought to sit down and think over all
the temptations, the struggles the hopes, tho bIcs-
sings the consultations of the week that is GOMEZ
"Thcmes Of gIaver tone
Exciting of our gratitude and love,
While we rerace with memorys pointing wand,
That calls the past to our exact review,
The dangers we have escaped, the broken snare,
The disappointed foe, Tdeivenncc found
UNLOCKED for, life preserved, and peace restored"
Herbert regarded the sabba,hs of our life the
pearls Of the Christian year. How diligently and
how reverently we have cherished them, will only be
known in the day when God shall make up his jewels
Every sixth day throughout the year, the path Of life
conducts us to the vestibne of Sunday. These reg
uar returns of sacred rcpose from toll, admirably
adapted to revive in henrts the flame of decaylng
devotion. Upon each morning rise, as it were
from the grave of our week -day SORROW and corrup
tion We touch with the finger of humble faith the
hem Of Chrst's garment, in the reading ofhs hal
lowed word. We cannot go out to meet our Lord
with the crowd that followed Him from Bethany to
jerusalem; but meet Him spiritually when we
cherish any pure thought or holy emotion; we bear
olive branches when we diflnse peace through our
own and our neighbours home; we have palms in
our hands when vnnquish the temptations and al
lurements fsin; we nre crowned with flowers if we
cultivate the Christian virtues, and put the orna
inert Of a meek and quiet spirit; strew gar
ments in his way, if we aside for his sake the
trappngs Of pride and the rich apparel of human
praise; our hosannns are repeated in every honor
shown to his name; we praise Him in the eternal
beauty ofthe heart, proclaim Him by the rhetoric
OF an innocent life.
The consecrated precincts of the Sabbath are not
TO be approached without solemn preparation. The
traveller who reaches his home through the perils and
hardships of the Eastern DESERT washes his feet, and
anoins his head before he reclnes at the supper of
welcome The wilderness of human life is not less
wemisomc, not less painful with dust and glare Sat-
urday evening brings to the tent of pence, refresh
of holiness, the light shines into his eyes,
''Md opening CLEAN of promised heaven''
Such blessings not to be used corelessly, or in
differently thrown aside. Every Saturday evening
shoud find us looking over accounts with time.
,'IIe is happy indeed, who every hour to
sober or pious employment" We may be
her, If the world will not always give time to be
pious; above all, it becomes 10 ponder upon the
saying of Bishop Butler, that resolutions are lesser
acts.
Let then at the close Of every Saturday evening
remember, and endeavorto apply to our own benefit
the advice Of the learned and good Henry Morc-to
pray continually, and TO watch continually, that we
may pass from transaction transaction with cir
cumspect eye; converting common business into
instruments or aids of moral Improvement To ac-
compsh this object we mus, take diligent account
of all
F'errors past,
'And make each day n critic to the ast''
Frazer sSlagazinc.