Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1854-12-20
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From the Easton Star.
T H Z S A B B 4 TIL.

Types Of eternal rest, fair buds Of bliss,
In heavenly flowers unfolding week by week:
The next worlds gladness i'm RginCd forth in this
Days Of whose worth the christian heart can speak
Days fixed by God with intercourse with dust,
To raise eur thoughts and purify powers
Periods appointed TO renew trust
CLEAN Of glory after SIX days showers"
How brightly dawns the Sabbath's peaceful
morn. The busy hum of industry and din of
worldly strife is hushed All nature seems to
be resting in calm repose, every object to be
invested with a new charm, and even the at
mosphere to be pervaded with a sacred inhu-
ence. The songsters of the air seam to vie
with each other in pouring forth their sweetest
notes of praise, on this glad day. The forest
in low murmurs takes up tn stream and chantsa
solemn anthem IN the Makers praise. Even the
flowers seem TO lock their praise, and point us
heavenward, or as it has been sweetly said
Meath clustered boughs each floral bell that wing
eth.
| And tolls its perfume on the passing air,
| Makes Sabbath in the fields. and ringeth,
! call to prayer
/ Such are the Sabbath notes that arise from
the earth's vast altar to heaven. But with
what pleasure does the Christian welcome the
sweet day Of rest, that saw the Lord arise :" and
while waited on the wings of prayer and
praise, the sacred hours fly swiftly by, his tran
gull soul rests on God, and contemplate with
pleasure the joys of the heavenly world, that
rest which remains for the toil-worn pilgrim
beyond the bounds of time; while faith ant
hope assure him that these. days of transen
rapture, shall ere long give place to one unend
ing Sabbath of repose.
But, alas, how few, comparatively right.
: estimate the Sabbath, or properly appreciate it
y benefits. Does one sneeringly ask, what ar
they! Turn back the pages of history, an
). view infidel France when she abolished tn
Sabbath, and declared that there was no God
!. and the answer is written, as it were, in blood
Turn to benghted Africa, whose dark place
are yet visited with the habitations of cruelt!
"No sound of the church-going bell'' is heard
tie these moral waters. No "sweet and solem
!. hymn of Sabbath worshippers" floats on ii
Of evening air, bearing the thoughts heavenwar
The sullen sound Of the death drum is heard
their fantastic orgies, to drown the shrek
the victims that are slain in their devilworshi
:. In bright contrast view the green isles, tn
dot the Pacifc's peaceful bosoms, no long
no reposing Hin the borders of gloom" but
les deemed and disenthralled from the chains
darkness and idolaty in which they were bour
their I" idols cast to the moles and the bats
and them selves clothed and in their right mil
. sitting at the feet of the Saviour. The Fl
lean, whose cannbal propensities led him
disregard the instinct that prompts even
d. beasts to protect their young, and to devour
sweet morsel the flesh of his own son,
ly- felt the sanctifying and elevating influence
ted Christianity upon his brutal and degraded
o. ture; and in no place is the Sabbath m
20 highly priced, or the sanctuaries Of God m
deeply reverenced than in these islands
What has elevated Great Britain and the
r. ted States to the position which they hold am
n the nations Of the earth! What but their
NC, ersnce for. the Bible and its Great Author
ID their observance Of his Sabbaths. 4" Strh
y SAYS Mr.. E. Everett, from the political, m
~ and intellectual condition of society, all
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