Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-09
THE world renewed by calm repose,
Is strong for toll.

Is strong for toll
And yet to us the morning of the first work.
day of the week is the heaviest of them all.
On that morning there is always a cold hard
glitter in the sunshine" the yellow sun
shine" and it lies heavy as gold on the
heart. We remember it was always harder
to go to school on Monday morning than any
other. Then tie rules of discipline, which
perhaps during the previous week had become
relaxed in the vigor of their application, were
enforced with renewed vigor and severity.
The master always wore sterner iace-as if
he had work on his hands and meant to DO
sAnd then how cherries seemed the school
room,-it was filed with new atmosphere,
colder and harder to breathe than that which
we left in it Friday night. The school. books,
as we opened them, yawning from their Sun
day nap, seemed duller than ever. Precious
little did we gather from their pages on the
first school day of the week.
So, when school was left behind, and we
went out to battle with the world, Monday
morning put on new features of severity. It
was on Monday morning that we went, with
heavy, humping heart, to take our place I'M
Ter new master in the school of life. 1t was
n Monday morning that we left our fathers
earth' side to so among strangers in strange
! place. 1t was ON Monday morning that We
| life, with no friendly sail in view, and the
shores OF youth fast receding from the sight
But III this world all evils have their coun-
terbalancing blessing. Ii we have gloomy
Monday mornings, we have glorious Saturday
nights We remember fellow apprentice
! who always hailed the last hours of the week
with the exclamation, g Is it Saturday night
| who's sory?" Aye, who is sorry when
Saturday night comes, with its cessation from
toll, It's promise Of Sabbath rest, and Sabbath
beans?
1t would seem as if the spirit of worldly
care was enVious of the Sabbath. Its golden
hours of repose and self-communing are so
much stolen from the world, and SO on Mon
day morning it repays itself by imposing fresh
burdens, and by asserting with increased Sc
verify the authority of its sway. On Monday
morning comes the washer woman to upset
the peace Of husbands, and sour the temper Of
their wives. Dread day
Which week, smooth gliding after week, brings on
Too soonj for to that day peace belongs
Nor comforts ere the first gray streak of dawn,
The ed-armed washers come and chase repose.
All disagreeable undertakings are put off to
Monday morning; all sad departures, separa-
tons and unhappy changes fall on that dread
morn Then humanity puts on again the
heavy harness of the world, takes up the wea-
ry burden of life, and moves on With tramp
Of duty. 1t is one of the glories of heaven
that it has no Monday morning, and its in
mates all dwell in one eternal Sabbath. Port
land Transcript.
LOVE YoUR ENEMIES Our Saviour points
this out as the characteristic duty of religion.
But it may be asked, How can we comply
with this precepts To love our friends is ca
sy; but to love our enemies is unnatural.--
The answer is, that we must take means with
ourselves to overcome the feeling of dislike,
or the impulses of passion. We must not
dwell upon malice which others have shown;
we must not make it the subject of discourse
and complaint. We must call to mind all the
excuses which may be found for them We
must, above all, pray for forgiving spirit;
pray that sense of Gods mercy, and Of the
goodness of Christ, may be so fixed and root
ed in our hearts, that they may expand in love
to all mankind. Such are the grounds of this
temper and conduct.
And one great motive to it is, that this is
the way in which God acts towards men and
therefore the way in which men ought to act
towards one another. God sends the bless
ings of His Providence upon all upon the
Just and the unjust; upon those who serve
Him and those who serve Him not. We have
daily experience that he does. For what a
spectacle is this world III arms against God.
their righteous Governor refusing His laws,
opposing His dominion Even in a country
like ours, so particularly enjoying the means
Of grace, how small is the number of those
who really live to His glory; every triAe
amuses employs, engages them, and God is
forgotten. Worse still, He is defed; defied
by open sin; by cursing; by blasphemy.-
Yet God, though strong" is PATENT
though provoked every day. He does not
bring down that vengeance upon His enemies
which they incur, or even imprecate upon
themselves. He bears long with them; so
long, indeed, that men are emboldened to con-
tinue in their wickedness, instead of using
Gods mercy as he intended. ssThe long suf-
fering of God leadeth to repentance s'Sen-
tence against an evil work lis not executed
speedily" He sis not willing that any should
perish = aud therefore He makes His sun to
shine upon the evil and upon the good, and
sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
This thought should incline all Christians 10
bless those that persecute them, to pray for
those who despitefully use them. A blessing
often accompanies such spirit of meeknsss,
as was signaly exempli6ed on an occasion
which deserves to be recorded, when the sim
pie prayer of negro slave for his master,
which the master Unexpectedly overheard,
was the means of converting his heart - from