Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-01-11
HOW 70 SPEND THE sABRATR.


l. Rise early. God requires 6ne-saventh part o.
| your time. The Sabbath is just as long as any
| other day. If you indulge in sleep on Sabbath
morning one or two hours later than usual you
rob God and your soul Of 50 much holy time; and
if you begin the day BY robbing God, you cannot
expect he viii bless you.
2 Pray for your minister. He will then preach
better and you viii be better prepared to profit by
his preaching. He needs your prayers. He has
asked his energies to prepare good sermons to In
terest you. Exhausted by the labors Of the week,
and trembling under bis awful responsibility, he
will be cheered and encouraged if he believes he is
remember ed in your prayers.
g. Pray that the preaching may be blessed to
your soul He is 9 foolish man who sows his seed
before he breaks up the soil You are more foolish
if YOU expect q blessing without asking for it, or
preparing your heart to receive it. If blessing
is not worth asking for, do not complain if it is
not bestowed.
4. Do not indulge in secular conversation. To
spend the interval between the services of the
sanctuary 10 talking about business, OF pleasure. or
politics, Is not remembering the Sabbath day to
keep it holy. If you spend your intermssion In
th MAJ Eer, you must not wonder if 10 the after
noon you feti sleepy, aud the preacher seems dull
Blush worldly Thoughts You must not on
tue Sabba'h think your own thoughts" Ifyour-
thoughts are allowed to wander unrestTained over
the business of the past week, or the plans for the
week to come, on will suffer for it. God will
leave you in darkne g. your 1--we will be cold, your
prayers formal, and you will be disqualified to en-
gage probably in the services of the sanctuary.
6. Do not criticise the performances of your
minis er. Ii he has preached a poor sermon,
make the best o. it: if good one, be thankful
and improve it. Your praise or censure can do no
coed, ether to him or yourself, but may do hurt to
both You will profit far more by praying over
the sermon, and applying it to yourself than by
critcising it.
Z. Spend every Sabbath as though It were your
last. Your last Sabbath will soon come. Per
baps the next will be your last. Spend it then as
you " 4 wish you had done, when you will review
it millions OF ages heUoe If you knew it would
be, you would be much in prayer, you would ban
ISL n Ocdiy thoughts conversation, you would
read the Bible, GU would mediate much on divine
things, ana examiLe the foundation Of your hope
for eternity. Do tLi' and your Sabbath will not
be spent il vain. II
TIE SUGAR QUEsTroH.-The following taken from
the report Of the Secretary of the Treasury, shows
tie sources to which we are indebted for our for
eign supply Of Sugar, and also its value:
WHERE OUR FJREIsv sUGAR3 oAMz FRoM-I856.
Cube, SI6388, 500 |
Porto REQ, 1929 1852 |
Philippine Is. 7SO 92l |
British West Indiss, 6Sl, 100 |
Dutch and W, Ia. 238,l78 |
Brszll 498605 |
China, 387, 23I |
2O6 $50 |
Total import of Brown Sugar, $22,4lO353 !
White Cisy ed or Powdered, 81 504 /
Loaf and R faed Ga, loo /
Cuba Molssses, $35l0609
Other Molssses, 824,O59-3, 3s4 ,668
Total Sugar and Mossses, S26, 1854, GOA
More than three quarters of our supply come
ION the Spanish West Indian Colonies of Cuba
md Porto Riro. Upon this Cuban sugar there is
IN expor: duty Of seventeen and half cents
lpon every hundred pounds, which enhances the |
1rics so much to the consumers in this country
L is not in the power of this Government, there
ore, by taking off out sugar import cuty, to con-
rOi the price of the article, for the Spanih au'
horities might increase it at any time by adding
o their export duty. There is but one way Of
-etting our sugar cheap, and that is by ann exiug
Cuba to the United States.-ClH. Enquirer.
CAN IT Be Solve fad the following il the
Memphis Appeal. That paper gives it as an ex-
Tact Of a letter from Herkimsr comfy, New York,
o gentleman in that city:
Oce OF Dir Cams little boys was drowned last
week in our canal. tn ey rsked the canal, fred
amen over the water, all to no purpose They
i'd not succe ei in finding the body, till young
ldy CD boat recommended them to take loaf
f bread, make a hoe in IL, put in some quick
liver, and fssten it in, aud then put the bread on
be water, and it would float until it came to the
bid. She said she had seen it operated with
&c sss. No one had any faith, but they tried it,
nd sure the bresd f)ated a few rods and then
topped. A boat came along and drove it from
IS place; but as soon as the boat passed, it re-
lrned to the same same spot, and they took
ook and found the child in that place. a. had
cen ia thu canal two DAYS.
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