The Nevada journal., 1853-07-22

surely will) for reasons why you did not re
member the sabbath day to keep 1t holy
when you were in California, you will not
/ say to Him you had not time, you found it
: would not pay What will be the value
Of few ounces weighed in the balance
with such interests as these? What will
they profit as the price of disregarding du-
ties such as these? Alas how will they
eat as the canker and seath as the fires Of
perdition J .....-
4 Many considerations we might offer to
prompt you to discontinue this practice and
observe the sabbath thereby you would
comply with the demand of Gods law, Sc
cure his favor and the appreciation of a
good conscience. You would receive great
physical benefit. Rest is an important law
Of physical being. The beast Of burden
compelled to drudge beneath its load for
weeks without rest, becomes unfit for SER
vice. Man is not physically constituted
to endure more than the beast of burden.
By continued toll and labor without rest
ing at least one-seventh of your time, your
physical energies must suffer, and seriously.
Observation and experience teach you this.
lsCSG yOu IuuSG udfC. uCu WHY llOG ICSU
on the Sabbath, the day set apart of God
and thus contribute to the peace and we'll
being of society? 1t will be greatly to
your intellectual and moral advantage
One day in seven devoted to intellectual
and moral pursuits cannot fail to promote
the highest good of those who thus employ
that time. Observation and facts undeni-
able, demonstrate that the non-observance
of the Sabbath tends to the intellectual and
moral injury of both individuals and COM
munities The individual Sabbath desc
orator, necessarily becomes more and more
immoral. The Sabbath desecrating COM
munity more and more abounds in vice and
disorder 1t may be stated as an axiom,
that no man or community can persist in
Sabbath desecration, without physical, in
tellectual and moral injury, and Uice uersa,
physical, intellectual and moral good is
ever the rich reward of the faithful Sab
bath observer. God has placed choice
reward over against the fourth command
ment. Keep the commandment, and the
prize is yours, richer, far, than all Of Cali
fornia's gold.
You would accomplish great good for
society. Disguise it as we may, Sabbath
dissertation in its open forms, is one of the
worst evils that can afflict community.
1t disorders society throughout all its RAM
ifcations. You have the power, more than
any others, to curse this community with
this baleful evil-and you have the power
to remove it. This we would urge as one
of the highest considerations that could
prompt you to action on this subject
However you might promote your own
good mo one should live to himself. Motives
of the purest benevolence speak to you
here. They call to you in behalf Of the
happiness Of your neighbor-your brother
the community in which you live, and
the uprising generation around you.
In conclusion, in the spirit of charity
with motives the best intended-as fellow
citizens-as brethren-we appeal to you,
in the name of the friends of the Sabbath
in the name of those families who have
come from the bosom of the church-who
have been reared in the lap of our holy
Christianity, whose hearts are panied and
feelings outraged by the boldness with
which this cherished institution is tram
pied in the dust.
We beseech you by the prayers, the tears,
the early Instructions and Cody admoni
tions of your beloved fathers and mothers,
who taught you the fear of the Lord, and
to observe his Sabbath. We appeal to
you by your Indebtedness for light and
knowledge to the Holy BIBLE, and by the
respect and reverence you have for its sa-
cred truths. In the name of the uprising
generation in our midst, who are compell-
ed to live and breathe in the very atmos-
phere of Godlessness the name of the
community in which you live-of our free
and happy institutions, which will wither
and blast in the hands of a Goddess and
Sabbath desecrating people-in the name
.of our common Christianity, the only hope
of our lost world-in the name of Cop,
who created, redeemed, preserves, and will
Judge you-in the name of interests to
yourselves and the world, high as heaven,
wide as the universe, deep as he'll and las !
ting as eternity-we beseech you, PAUSE
and REFLECT. Go not another step with
the reckless multitude in trampling this Or
dinance of heaven under their feet, and III
ficting on themselves and community the
worst of evils. Come, and with us, strive
to turn away from this fair land the. desc
lating tide Of Sabbath desecration, which
threatens to make it moral sahara. Then,
when old age comes upon you, you can re-
pose in quietude, beneath the peaceful
shades of the christian institutions you have
helped establish. Your consciences will
whisper, you have done well. Future gen
erations will rise up and call you blessed.
COP WILL BLESS YOU. With our best wish
es and sincere prayers for your present and
everlasting well-being, we leave the subject
with you. d: A: DRYDEN,
JOHN G.. SIMMONS,
j. g. HALE.
The Salem, Oregon, Statesman, says:
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