The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-07-30
REGARD FOR THE SABBATH.

We think any political party must be in a
desperate condition, when its advocates are
forced to desecrate the Sabbath to propagate
its principles. 1t pains us therefore, 10 open
the papers devoted TO The Sc party organiza-
ton, and find paraded in their columns, noti-
ces for political lectures on the Sabbath. The
The divine command is Remember the
Sabbath day, too keep it holy. No where is
there a divine injunction, remember the Sab
bath day, and deliver during its sacred and
hvly hours lectures upon politics. We have
been brought up from our childhood to revere
the Sabbath. to consider its hours as sacred,
and to be appropriated to the consideration of
themes connected with mans best interests
here, and in the world TO come. But a gener-
alton has sprung up. no are much wiser, in
their opinion, than their fathers, and who, in
desecrating the Sabbath and consuming its
hours IN the discussion of matters entirely ir-
relevant 10 the design of its institution, give
full evidence not only Of human depraviry in
in the abstract, but sanction to the exercise of
the worst passions, cultivated and cherished
by corrupt associations. We have said thus
much from beholdiug in the Sd Party Organ
in this State, a notice for a political lecture
to be delivered in 'Ferrisburgh on SUNDAY
the 9th inst" What would be said if Wings
or Locos should send a man through the State
to give political lectures on the Sabbath
The public would at once denounce such all
act as a gross outrage upon the religious
sense of the community. The pulpit, the
press, would thunder its anathemas against
the party lending its influence, giving its
sanction to such a course of Sabbath desecra-
ton. We have no desire to stiHe free dis
c%ussion. On the contrary, we love to see it
have free range. TRUTH suffers not in con-
iict with error. But there is a time for all
things, and all things HAVE their time. The
Sabbath brings with it 10 the good man, holy
and pious reflections, and holy associations
crowd for pre-eminence in his soul. Around
the vicious and vile it throws its restraints
more or less, compelling them TO acknowl-
edge its hours as sacred, and lis necessity as
binding. Necessity gave the Sabbath its be-
ing. Not political necessity, but moral neces-
sity. The vagrant political Sabbath Iectur-
ers however, make the day Of Gods choice,
a day to relieve mans political necessity
They adopt the motto we suppose, "the bet
ter the day the better the deed" So the bur-
glar and murderer might say. but who would
believe him! We have no disposition to CEN
sure, only when censure is deserved. The
agrarian spirit of the age however, developes
itself in almost every organization be it po-
litical or religious. 1t is enough that
our religious teachers or rather semi-re-
ligious teachers, should under the garb ofho-
ly s%anctity, pour forth their doctrines aiming
to undermine the foundations Of the religious
structure ofsociety. without political lecturers
to seize upon the hours devoted for Gods
worship to remodel the structure of political
society. We do not believe the irstteachers
Of Christianity strolled through the world
preaching politics upon the Sabbath. We do
not believe the politicians Of the age in which
they lived, seized upon the Christian Sabbath,
to pour forth their anaihemas upon faults in
the political world, or diffuse teachings upon
political science. We to be sure, live not in