The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-03-08
NO. 4 8.
EAerpinS The Sabbath,


1t is seldom in our power to present
our readers with oil article SO able and
convincing as to the physical advantage
OF the Sabbath, as is the following.
ne Sabbath, (says the North British
Review from which we extract it.) is
god S gracious present to q working
word land for wearied minds and bodies
it is the grand restorative:"
"lhe Creator has given us natural
restoratlve-sleep; and moral restora:
tvc-Sabbath-keeping; and it is ruin
to dispense with either. Under the
pressure OF high excitement, individuals
have passed weeks together with little
sleep, or none; but when the process
is long continued. the over driven
powers rebel, and fever, delirium, and
death comes on. Nor can this natu:
raj amount be Systematically curtaIed
Without corresponding mischief. The
sabbath does not arrive like Sleep
l he day of rest does not steal over us
Ike The hour of slumber. 1t does nos
entrance us almost whether we will
or not; but, addressing us as intelligent
pe'hSs, our Creator assures us that we
need it, and bids us notice its return.
and court its renovatiou. And if 90.
Ing III the face of the Creators kindness,
We force orr selves to work all davs
alike, it is not long till we pay the Tor
fe't. The mental worker-the man of
business or the man Of letters-fnds
his Ideas coming forbid and slow the
cqulPolse OF his faculties is upset; be
grows moody, fitful, and capricious; and
with his mental elasticity broken.
should any disaster occur, he subsidies
into habI'ual melancholy, or in sell.
destruction speeds his guilty exit from
gloomy world. And the manual
workcr,-thc artisan. the engineer
tolling on from day to day. and week
to week, the bright intuition ofhis eve
gets. Iblunted. and, torgetfIl, of their
cunning, his fingers no longer perform
their fcats of twinkling'agi nor by
q plastlck and tnneful touch mould
dead matter, or WELD mechanic power:
but mingling his lites blood in his dal.
ly drudgcry, his locks are prematurely
grey, his genial humor sour, and slu-
wing till he has become morose or
reckless man, for my extra effort or
anyEhha!s ssos i:i feeling ling he must s.
stand indebted to opium or alcohol
10 an industrious population, so essen.
t!al 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 suspendinr
labor one day in every ten. Master
manufacturers have stated that thev
could perceive an evident deterioration
in the quality Of the goods, produced.
as thcaweek drew near q close. lust he,
cause the tact, alertness, and energy of
the workers began to experience inevi-
table exhaustion. When steamer on
the Thames blew up, few months ago
the flremen and stokers laid the blame
on their broken Sabbath (which stupG-
cd ard cmbitered thcm--made them
blunder at their work, and needless
what havoc such blnnders Nigh. 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 so essential to industrial efii-
cheney is no less Indispensable to the
laborcr's health and longevity"