American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-09-29
ESTABLISHED IN 1925

The SABBATH---Here is one day in Sc
ven. the rent Of which God has not given
you. On this day God says to the world,
stop your drum and trumpet. end the great
roar Of the city ceases. One oil the most
impressive things 10 nae, IS stand out
there ON the heights wbersi now i've, Is
T. bear that harsh but musical roar that
never dis. day nor night. There is no.
sn hour, night sfter night, in which l can.
not hear that great city below. After / 2
O'Clock on Saturday night the roar dts
away. and 10 the bright eorly hours.
about the hour that the cross on Trinity
looks ike star 10 the heaven-it is still.
ike sleeping infaDt. How beautiful that
institution that says 10 the world: Ooe
day in seven be silt Let men forget their
cares; let them be let alone this day
Every seventh day God lifts up men, as on
the Mount Of TRANSPORTATION, and enables
them, as il were. in the light of His eoun-
tenance, TO reyieW the past and determine
the lines of their future conduct for the
coming week. would deliver you, my
dear people, from any Ptarisaio Sabbath.
But God forbid that this sweet island of
the week, that is never without verdue and
howers--this sweet mountain-top is. more
substantial even than that on which Christ
pressed bis feet in the Holy Land, should
ever be sunk 10 :be sea. or cast down and
desecra,ed; for when we lose the Sabbath
we lose the charm Oy which we are to for
get our passions, and be lifted by sweet
fellowship into higher range. OF moral
feelings and there 10 settle the truths that
are to be our everlasting salvation. - e. H.
Cbapin. svtst-
TaE MAD sroSr.-The editor of the
Jackson (Tennsssee) Wing has been shown
by DR.. R. H. Ayres. Of that place. one OF
the famous Mad Stones. the existence oI
which has been generally doubted. The
Doctor thinks the stone is of coral forins-
ton, He says.
When used. it is dipped in water quite
warm aud applied TO the wound, when the
patient feels the sensation Of drawing; and
it is said that small ones will stick till full
of poison and then drop off. and alter being
dipped in water and re-appiied. win stick
till sll the poison is extracted. Mine il toe
large to stick in that ~aS. being oyor two
inches square, containing about seven solid
inches. Yet those TO whom have applieJ
il asserted that they felt il draw.
This stone was used in Roekinghan
couEty, Virgins. from about 81 5 to 832
and 10 the West since. in my own neigh
borhood, and has never failed TO- cure il
sny, case. althought in several instances
forty eight hours, and 10 one. sew raj days
elapsed before it was applied. In cast
bitten by cotton mouth snake last week
in the vicinity Of Mifiin. the remsdies pre-
scribCd by the family physician were uset
until the leg and thigh were badly swollen
(bit on the ankle. J and the body had com;
menced swelling; slept none, through thJ
might, and bad no ea,e till / applied th'
mad stone. which gave relief efinmediately
and sbe fell asleep in twenty minutes,
Seventeen hours had elapsed before it wa
applied. 1t arrests the swelling and, pair
in case of the sting Of INSECTS in few mo
, ments. as l will prove al any time, on ml
egD person or any one else. This ston'
, is much larger than any other have hear
Of and may be divided,