Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-06-01
BUSINESS MEN AND THE SABBATH

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day in seven, and so much of our time and prof
its be lost; what harm will strong mind and
body suffer by making every day alike" Thus
questions with himself some man of business
II the Sabbath were an arbitrary institution, not
made for man." it might be present policy to
disregard it. But what are the facts! Neither
mind nor body can endure continual toll. 1t ex-
hausts the nervous energy, depresses the spirits,
and wears out the stamina of life. The rest of
the night says experience and medical authori-
ty is insufficient. Variety of occupation is need
ful to the buoyancy and highest effectiveness of
mans powers. Change recreates the mind
And mon of care and thought whose faculties
are habitualy occupied with one class of sub
jects especially need the rest and exhileraton of
variety.
But society knows no repose. The world
never goes fast enough. Business always press
es. Competition will not be out done, Amb-
tion and enterprise are never satisfied; and bus-
ness rolls on like the waves of an inundating
sea. And the poor man, who must ordinarily
take the post Of hardship and toll, is the first to
be swallowed up. The busy men, whose place
and profession is amidst these waves, are all the
while falling victims, while their dying groans
are lost amid the roar. One turbulent ocean
would our life be, were there no barriers to this
green islands in this stormy sea, where the air
is cool and calm, and cloudess skies bend over,
and words of love are whispered, and voices Of
heaven are heard in the still places.
The Sabbath's rest is n positive advantage to
the public industry. Through its influence,
more business on the whole is done, and it is
done better. Frequent experiments have prov
ed its expediency. TO the laboring classes it is
bulwark of freedom. 1t gives the poor man a
seventh day of liberty and rest, and self-culture,
and if he desecraie it, he is casting away his
birthright, aud trampling on the safeguard Of
his own independence and the means of his own
elevation The Sabbath is the busy mans life
preserver. 1t recreates the tired muscles, and
nerves the brain. Its proper observance adds
years to the lives of the laborous and careful,
while it gives more of life to life. 1t affords Sc
curities against insanity and nervous prostration
Pitts and Wilberforces and Matthew Hales have
recognized its necessity in professional and po-
litical life, and eminent Medical authorities on
both sides of the Atlantic have pronounced it a
law of nature, equally as of revelation.
Aswe have seen the mysterious influence of
some Sabbath morning lifting the cloud from
the brow of care, and smoothing out the furrows
that six days Of mental toll had made, we have
hailed this divine institution as neither burden
nor waste, but gift of wisdom and benevo-
lcnce to man. [Chicago Tribune.
WOODEN LEGS AND WoMAN's RIGHTs-We
like to sec things well touched up no matter if
they do not square with our ideas of the right
position. Some country editor threw off the
following at DASH The merit of the article is,
that it is spicy, and does not claim to be right.
"The gravity of the legislature has been So
lcited to unbend itself to the contemplation Of
factiion legs and forlorn females Our readers
doubtless begin to think this is joke, but we
assure them we are only speaking of plain
fact Two Samuels-not Daniels-have come
to judgment, and decided to their own satsfac-
tion-lhe one that people want to go upon sticks,
the other, that women are wanted Mt the polls.
Mr.. Samuel Emmons petitions the General
Court of Massachusetts that wooden legs be
supplied, at the expense of the Commonwealth,
to all who require them Mr.. Samuel E. Sew
all petitions the State Convention to strike out
the male" from the Constitution, and bring the
whole feminine gender out of the handbook into
the ballot box
Shall we put it on record that we the 'colec-
tive wisdom has made short work with the
champion of the crppes? 1t is even so or
about to be so. The committee of the House
looked at his petition and then cut off his legs
at single blow. They made no words about
MIR. Samuel Emmons but even gave him leave
to withdraw cut stick, hop off, todde away and
stump it home. He may light his pipe with his
wooden leg petition if he chooses-not single
stick of joist shall he or his get for nothing from
this Commonwealth--spit of all the woods of
Maine. So say the finty-hearted committee
and the House, we suspect, will say amen.
Let every man, then, keep himself upright on
his own pins; for the Commonwealth is no
more bound to supply shin timber for those who
have kicked their own legs off, than to manufac-
ture wooden heads for those whose noddles are
good for nothing. A word to the wise is suffi-
cent.
! What the State Convention will do with the
petition of the other Samuel, we do not under
take to predict. Strike out the word male for
sooth! 1t is easily done, but who shall tend the
babies!
If Mr.. Emmonds will get up wooden leg
party our honest opinion is that he will carry
his point sooner by some thousands of years
than Mr.. Sewall will succeed in his attempt to
make the world forget the difference between
man and a woman" Chicago Com. Adv.
PIcKING THE EAR-A horrible death recent
ly occurred in Paris FROM common practice
with many persons. A gentleman feeling a
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