The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-03-08
NO. H9
Keeping The SaDbats,


1t is seldom in our power to present
our readers with oil article so able and
convincing as to the physical advantage
or the Sabbath, as is the following.
Inc sabbath, (says the North British
kevIew from which we extract it.) is
goa gracious present to a working
word land for wearied minds and bodies
IT Is the grand restorative:"
The Creator has given us a natural
restoratIve-sleep; and moral restorn:
t'vc-oabbath-keeping; and it is ruin
to dispense with either. Under the
pressure of high excitement, individuals
nave passed weeks together with little
sleep, or none; but when the process
Is long continued. the over driven
powers rebel, and fever, deliriurn. and
death comes on. Nor can this natu:
raj amount be Systematically curtailed
without corresponding mischief. The
Sabbath does not arrive like Sleep
lhe day of rest does not steal over us
i'ke 'hc hour Of slumber. 1t does no.
entrance us almost whether we will
or not; but, addressing us as Intelligent
beings, our Creator assures us that we
need it, and bids us notice its return.
ana court its renovation. And if. 90.
ing IN the face Of the Creators kindness.
we force onr selves to work all days
alike, it is not long till we pay the for
felt. The mental worker-the man of
business or the man of letters-finds
MS IDEAS coming forbid and slow the
eqn!Polse OF his faculties is upset; be
grows moody, ftful, and capricious; and
with his mental elasticity broken.
should any disaster occur, he subsidies
into habitnal melancholy, or in self.
destruction speeds mis- guilty exit from
gloomy world. And the manual
worker,-thc artisan, the engineer
tofllng on, from day to day. and week
to week, the bright intuition ofhis eve
gets. .blunted. and, forgetfIl, Of their
cunning, his fingers no longer perform
their feats of twinklingagility, nor by
plastick and tuneful touch mould
dead matter, or WELD mechanic power;
but mingling his life's blood in his dal.
~ drudgery, his locks are prematurely
grey, his genial humor sour, and sla-
wing till he has become morose or
reckless man, for my extra effort or
anysb pink tof balmy feeling he must
stand indebted TO opium or alcohol
10 al industrious population, so essen.
tlal is the periodic rest, that when the
attempt was made in France TO abolish
the weekly Sabbath. it was found nee
essary to issue decree suspendine
labor one day in every ten. Master
manufacturers have stated that thew
could perceive an evident deterioration
IN the quality Of the goods produced.
as thes,"eek drew near a close, just be,
cause the tact, alertness, and energy of
inc workers began to experience inevi-
table exhaustion. When steamer on
the Thames blew up, few months ago
t4e hremen and stokers laid the blame
on their broken Sabbath (which stupiG-
ca ard embitered thcm-made them
blunder at their work, and needless
what havoc such blunders might create.
And we have been informed that when
the engines ofan extensive steam pack
ct company, in the south of England.
were getting constantly damaged, the
mischief was instantly repaired by
giving the men what the bounty of their
Creator had given them long before,
the rest of each seventh day. And
| what is 50 essential to industrial effi-
cheney is no less indispensable to the
laborer's health and longevity"