Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-06-10
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The world without sabbath.


What would it be? Labor without
rest care without solace probation
without preparation; night without
day.
To the laJoriag man the loss Of the
Sabbath would bring unceasing toll with
out increased compensation, and con-
sequent wasting of physical strength,
which would soon wear out the machl-
merry of life. 1t would rob him of the
allotted period for mental and spiritual
improvement and for home duties and
cnjoyments. Brutalizcd in mind, body
and association he would sink to the
level of the scrf be the sport of capital,
and end his days in heathenism.
To the famay the Sabbath lost would
entail the loss of the home ddy-the day
of domestic reunion, instruction, wor-
ship, and charity. Family government
would lose its tone family joys would
die out domestic purity would be i'm
periled-for the two oldest institutions
in the world are interlinked and family
piety would become extinct.
To the Church lost Sabbath would
involve the loss Of It's solemn assemblies,
its godly ministry, its day for edifcation
and action, its season for domestic and
associated instruction Of the young and
its antelope of the crest that remaineth
for the people of God" An Arctic
winter--without light or heat, or food
is but an emblem of the state of Chris
tian world without the Sabbath and its
ordinances.
A State without Sabbath must be
without liberty. To free State the
Sabbath brings the support of some Of
the most powerful elements of self-gov-
eminent. 1t inspires respect for law,
divine and human. 1t fosters the sense
of omnipresent Deity, and of mans de-
pendence and accountability. 1t engen-
ders lively conscience, more potent to
restrain from crime than all Legislative
or judicial guards. Its educational force,
through the pulpit, the Sabbath school,
and the Preside, quickens the intellect
and moulds the heart of nation. 1t
gives the weekly occasion for illustrating
the equality of men before God, and of
intoxicating the great lesson of human
brotherhood. 1t is the foe of despotism
and the ally of freedom. The nation
that has the Sabbath may dispense with
armies and tax-gatherors for their sup
port; no nation on the globe without
the Sabbath, or with only profane hol-
iday in its stead, has free institutions,
or dare disband its standing armies.
The soul without the Sabbath would
grope its way through a rayless night to
the "blackness of darkness forever. y
For, while man might give heed to oter-
nal concerns on any or all days, uniyer-
sal observation proves that contemners
of the Sabbath despise and wonder and
perish. No man who defes the author
ity of God, and wilfully profanes the
Lords Day, can have the temper of a
child of God on other days. Think Of
world of souls without Sabbath, aud
the image of hell rises upon the vision.
Think of world waking each seventh
day to the consciousness of the presence
and power of a creating, redeeming God
and Saviour; the families of earth bow
ing in worship before their several affairs
going up TO His temples to render
their homage and hear His truth, and
bearing forth the principles and spirit Of
the Gospel in all the relations of life,
and you have annotated that millennia'
Sabbath which promise, prophecy and
Providence are fastening on, and which
the day, the world and the Spirit o.
God conspire to usher in.
He is the enemy of the laborer, o.
the family, of the church, of the State,
and of the soul, who profanes or de-
grades the Sabbath, and who would rot
other of its priceless blessings.