Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-03-27
THE WORLD WITHOUT A SABBATH.

What would it be? Labor without
rest; care without solace, probation with
out preparation; night without day.
To the labortng 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 machin-
cry of life. 1t would rob him of the al
loted period for mental and spiritual i'm
provement, ,and for home duties and enjoy
ments. Brutalized in home, body, and
association, he would sink to the level of
the serf, be the sport of capital, and end
his days in heathenism.
To the .fanaiy, the Sabbath lost would
entail the loss of the hon.e day-the day
.afz fzaeaasstis.zrsanien, instruction, wof-
ship, AMI charity. Family government
would lose its tone; family joys would
die out;-domestic purity be imperilled
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 its solemn assemblies,
its godly ministry, its day for ediication
and action, its season for domestic asso-
ciated instruction of the young, and its
antitype of the crest that remaineth for
the people of God'' An Arctic winter
without light, or heat, or foods but
an emblem of the State of the Christian
world without the Sabbath and its ordi-
nances.
A State without Sabbath must be
without liberty To free State the
Sabbath brings the support ofsome of the
most powerful elements of self-govern;-
ment. 1t inspires respect for law, divine
and human. 1t fosters the sense of ON
nipresent Deity, and of mans dependence
and accountability. It engenders a
lively conscience, more potent to restrain
from crime than all legislative or judi
cial guards. Its educational force,
through the pulpit, the Sabbath School,
and the fre-side, quickens the intellect
and moulds the mind of nation. 1t
gives the weakly occasion for illustra-
ting the equality of men before God, and
of intoxicating the great lesson of human
brotherhood. The nation that has the
Sabbath may dispense with armies and
tax -gatherers for their support; no ma
tions on the globe without the Sabbath,
or with only a protane holiday in its
stead, has free institutions, or dare dis
oand it's standing armies.
The soul without the Sabbath would
grope its way through rayles night to
the .sblackness of darkness forever. -
For while men might give heed to eter-
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 a
world of soulswithout Sabbath, and the
image of hell rises upon the vision
Think of world walking each seventh
day to the consciousness of the presence
and power of a creating, redeeming God
and Saviour; the families Of earth bowling
in worship before their several altars,
going up to his temples to render their
homage and hear his truth, and bearing
forth the principles and spirit OF the gos-
pei in all the relations of life, and you
have antedated the millennial Sabbath
which promise, prophecy and providence
are Fastening on, and which the day, the
word, and the Spirit of God conspire to
usher in. a -
He is the enemy of the laborer, of the
family, of the church, of the state and OF
the soul, who protanes or degrades the
Sabbath, and who would rob either OF
it's priceless blessings.