The Columbian fountain., 1846-08-12
From the PhiIadeIphia Daily Sun.
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NEVER GROWS OLD. %ass'

The calm and beauty ofa Sabbath morn
awakens emotions at once pleasing, PEN
lsive, awful and sublime. The first impress
sion it gives birth to is that Of the future
for the Sabbath is inseparably connected
with the idea Of G,d, which leads Us 10
think Of death and to ponder on iimmortali-
y.s What'a vast homage to the power of
the Almighty is shown in the. peryading ST.
lence Of the Sabbath morn-rwhen man and
all he loves, reposing from their tolls, -n.
JOY the hallowed'hours by sending up strains
Of grateful prayer to Heaven 5 portals, in
the spirit Of love and adoration.a There is
no bosom SO callous but at some time bows
down in submission 40 the power Of God,
and trembles to think Of the,immensity of
Him who holds all human life at his mercy
--at whose will health fades, fortune van
ishes, and the proud spirit Of ambition and
wealth shrink into dust at his frown. What
a mystery islile! The Sabbath morn re-
calls more than any other time--the events
Of our early existence. We then remember,
and see before US the once beloved parents,
now mouldered in the dust of years who
then, hand. in hand, conducted us to the
house of God, to watt our Iisping prayers
to the Great Source Of Being, and acknow-
ledge our mere nothingness- and at the
,sweetrecollection, our eyes fill with tears,
and we once more become as little child
rem 10 spirit though the head be gray, and
the cheek furrowed with age. .as, .irpa, \.
sAThe memories eff the Sabbath are those
ef virtue--wo to those to whom its return
brings recollections Of guilt! How much
ofthe happiness Of life depends on proper
observance Of this one day! even as far as
that happiness depends on the state of our
own minds-and that is. all in all. Who
can be happy, if the remorse Of one unjust
act torture his soul : God has ordained, ;,
in the very elements ofour being, that if we
are guilty, we shall remain miserable. This
moral law Of man is ingral,ed in our very
nature. II cannot be shaken off, though for
a season it may sleep in the fumes Of SEN
suaity. God has created all men with a
propensity to virtue, love, mercy, benevo-
lence and tenderness, by drawing them ir-.
resistabIy towards WoMAS--that portion
tion Of our race who are pre-ehinently en-
dowed with these qualities. 81 tsh 81
The hard traffic Of the world may, for a
season, render the heart obturate, so as to
s,ife the voice Of conscience, and produce
that false idea Of security which leads men
to think that they can commit evil, and
yet escape the penalty Of its pangs. This
is a sad delusion---for the time must come
when the crust of obduracy Will peel of,
at the fiery touch Of disease, or the fright
ful menaces Of death and then every pang
suppressed will swell into agony too great
to bear, and overwhelm the guilty by its
accumulated weight. The violator of the
Sabbath is but too often lhe violator of the
rest Of the commandments. He who breaks
one law will not hesitate to break another
like the usurer who beginning his ca
reer by extorlion, ends il by forgery, perju-
ry and the Jail. No one can fly from his
conscience. however fast he may ride
on the wings of steam, or struggle amid the
din of battle, to drown the cries of the fu-.
ries, who are tearing the heart-strines with
agony. No Sabbath ever yet had smiles
forthe guilty, il is the day consecrated to
innocence and virtue. The bad in heart
hate lis beams and curse its return because
to them the idea Of God is coupled with the
terrors Of punishment, and because they
cannot bear those recollections, which in
the Stiffness Of the Sabbath, haunts them
with The hepds Of their malefactions. The
Sabbath is in peculiar manner, the mirror
Of the past as well as the harbinger ofthe fu-
ture. 1t brings us into the very presence
chamber of God--whosc presiding attribute
is silence. He who can bear to be alone
-. who can listen to HIS own conac;ence