Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-09-13
Sabbath Physiology.

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The Almighty rested one-seYenth of time o
Fcreation, commanding man to observe an equa
7repose. TIE neglect Of this Injunction will
ALWAYS, sooneri or later, bring mental, mora
aud physical Geath.y1sz sdi drlw ssasg-55 sos
4. Rest is an ipYariables law ofranimal life
| The busy heart beats. ever, from infancy to
age, and yet large part Of the time it is in a
state of repose 5i2ie s-a3 @o1 g'a9a-@# 1850
sf William Plttalied of apoplexy at the early
age, OF fortyseFen. When the destinies of ma
tionS hung in a largesmeaSure on his dongs,
he felt compelled to give an unremitting atten-
ton to affairs of state. Sabbath brought no
rest to him. and soon the unwilling brain gave
signs of exhaustioB But his presence in Par
lament was conceived to be indispensable for
explanation and defence Of the public policy.
| lder such circumstances, 1t was his custom
to cat hearty, substantial food, most highly
seasoned, Just before going TO his place, in or
der to afford the body that strength aud ex-
cite the mind to that activity deemed neces-
Sary to the momentous occasion, But, under
the high tension, both brain and body pershed
prematnrelys sa.1" A@'-.. '..1
Not Dong ago, one of the most active bust
ness men Of England found his affairs so ex.
vote his Sabbaths to his accounts. He had II
mind of a wide grasp. His views were-sO
comprehensive, so fir-seeinr, that wealth came
inrupon him like a food He purchased a
couRuy-seat at the cost of four hundred thou
Saud dollars determiniug that Ae would now
have rest aud quiet. But it waS,too late. As
he stepped on his threshold after survey Of
his late purchase, he became apoplectic Al
though life was not destroyed, be ONLY lives to
be the wreck of man -
1t used to he said that a brick kiln must
be kept burning over the sabbath 1t is now
known to be a fallacy. There can be 10
must against a divine command. Even
now it is a received opinion that iron blast
furnaces will bripg ruin if not kept in contm-
ual operation. Eighteen years ago, an Eng
liShman determined to keep the Sabbath holy
as to them, with the result, as his books teSti-
fv, that he made more iron in six days than be
did before in seven that he made more iron
in given time, Ia proportion 10 the hands,
and number, aud size OF the furnaces, than
any establishment in England which was kept
in operation during the Sabbath
In our own New York, the mind of a man
who made half million year, went out in
the night of maduess aud an early grave in on
ly two years, from the very strain put upon it
by variety Of enterprises, every one OF which
succeeded
lit Will take about five years TO clear them
oG, said an obserVaut master of al Ohio, ca
nal boat, abiding to the wearip goat iniueuces
GU the boatmen, who worked on Sabbaths as
other DAYS As to the hoatmcn and fremeu
of the steamers on the Western rivers, which
never lay by on the Sabbath, seven years is
the average Of life. The observance, there
FORE Of the seventh portioA Of our lime for
the purpose of rest, is demonstrably physio-
logical necessity-alaw Of our ature.--LIaTs
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