Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-11-26
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Sabbaths now and then.

urday night, like that In Burns time, for n
threshold; it was a sabbath without a rail-
road running through the middle of it. and
"a locomotive and express train shrieking,
screaming and rafting WI its quiet.
Such a Sabbath is a long time since
such an one blessed the earth and its pill
grims-shines like a distant star out of the
dim sky of the Past. Alas ! that star has
set and who shall live to hail its rising
Such Sabbaths as the olden Sabbaths We
fear such holy days have somehow been
stricken from the calendar that the Gold
Demon has crept into the present Eden of
Time, and fl leaves are in shameful vogue
again.
Beautiful and Astounding in peace were
the thresholds Of those blessed DAYS. The
eager toll and strife of the week closed with
the sitting of Saturdays sun, and a sleep
followed that gave rest to WEAKNESS. The
doors and shutters of the store went to with
a slam the blacksmith bellows blew out
its breath the grating of the carpenters
saw ceased on the hill the song of the re-
turning. plousHsmg possessed a p~lhintiye
tone the tinkling of the bells in the cove
I had a more subdued note the frosty dust
ceased to dim the door of the old mill on the
creek, its messy wheel stood still, and the
d doors were closed to keep the boys from GO
n ing among the dusty wheels, songs-happy
songs-hoat on the evening breeze, and now
and then the notes of Windham, DID Hun
# dred, and sweet, sweet Corinth fell on the
ear. All! such a promising eyening-a
- \ hlaSSa1 oNranI0- lo-.ll:-- l.
better morrow
ey The hallowed morning comes bathed in
p dew and cheered with q birding ~song-birds
40 were not shot and eat then as now-little
lie clouds, fringed with silver and Frightened
with gold foated in the blue sky above the
tallest trees. The big hill towards the west
was bathed in golden glory, and its trees wore
ma crowns richer by far than that of kings and
ry, queens.
en- Under that sun that shed so much glory
nd the village and the country rested in quiet.
The mill, the school, the farm, the
of had grown murmurless together and holy
ard quiet reigned. 1t was the day of rest.
and Bye and bye the hour for worship came,
and then from the village, from the vallies
fHS 49, y IN nils NuthhC lhO "OlShilfItIS--
They anne along the paths on foot and along
the millroad on horse-two and two, and the
was millhorsc that carried double" bore an
ate. extra burden. Families came in wagons
nci- carriages and buggies were not fashionable
ling then-cameu up the hill to the Lords house
dec in solemn companies. Who does not remem-
the Der that 'house ?' 1t was unadorned and
'om- gray with years and moss its pulpit was
| Of plain and against the wall with a sounding
'ank board above its seats were naked as the
SO Truth that was declared, the store did no
keep religious Injuries; its ungilded hymn.
.tion books, it's ungaded worshippers! Modern
the church people would style them unfashiona
the BILE, and so they may have been, butthe mos
of them are gone, we hope, to a land wher
h all the fashions do not change with each repor
from Paris, but where robes of white, an
the crowns of gold and harps of geld are tn
a the fashion forever and aye
nate. And they sang hymns hen-not selection
from the opera-and the singers sing in al
living other choir. The old man that sang has
Fri has exchanged age for youth, and the brigh
rams eyed Nellie that wore a pink dress and san
treble has put on a garment of glory in til
"Sweet Home" she so loved to sing about.
When the sermon was done they sang
r De- HYMN and roco;rod tho bo,od %,
pre- bowed heads and humble hearts. Then XIII
year words were said by the Wayne raving
oscrf rantings and chickering's about Fillmor
SIMON Buchanan and Fremont-honest hands elias
fotch- ed honest hands and exchanged honest gree
nc iol Ings. "The crops were promising-tI
le the wo,tbor woe f +ho Ill
> use and what more was wanting?
pup- The sunbeams fall aslant and the ChurC
VIII was silent. A mother fingered in the gra,
ward 70 oaza tb,o,ob tore tho hundrod
CLUBS time on the sacred spot where little Lilly "
o., oo laid a pale girl with a sad face strew flo
ers over the grave of a friend the birds sa
OF this songs in the bougles the stream played
I Is al merry tune as it raced among the rock
'ealioh Love built castles among the flowers ; lilo
II now built castles in the air; and the childr
Cooley were in the fields and the meadows bniId;
always bowers of innocence and filling them Will
20 d thousand faneies and fun.
= a. Sabbaths are not now as they were the
ing US it was a day then and *,
ely and holy" The olden time Sunday has gone
q tour on the express train. The gray
westinghouse has become a Church i; ;"
49, singers have becomSa .tchoir" hid from vi
g nave by red curtains the CATION sit dur
RS this prayers-their knees are sitter than II
.razine. sires; the graveyard has become a 'cem
ry !" the Preacher a Divine :" Pride sitt
'i9nes' cushions of silk, and Poverty bends 0
at 1t is staff at the door listening for some word
ear any comfort from the oraclcs of God. The S
q Of the bath has become a day Of recreation"
a. day to display silks and satins-a day
n" drive fine carriages and fast horses-a
Street, to lay plans and count interest," busy, b
day with a railroad running through
noon of it, and a hideous engine scream
e of the shrieking, clanking, rafting away its q
known from morning bell to vespcrs. Oh f.
Ieard of good old fashioned, quiet Sunday
d.. So -
shops BA- The late foreign news is importan
regards the changing aspect of relations
e & Sen- tween France and England. Public ru
lomilies no longer hesitated to say that an Ar
passing Austrian alliance is necessary to counte
usually the threatened alliance between Russia
Eronan nGay~1