Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-02
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.
The Sabbath----Its Domestic
Relations.

panization. 1t is coeval with the crea-
tion of woman. Eve was not made to
have her blushing girlhood, and then
her days of virgin womanhood and CO.
ouetish coyness. She had no choice left
her. She had but one suitor. She was
made expressly for the conjugal state,
and entered into that relation immedl-
ately.
The domestic relation being the first
of human relations, is, by the necessity
of the case, fundamental to all other
earthly associations, and must condition
and stamp upon them their characters
Every other mode of social being must
take its type from the family. From
families arise communities, churches, anu
empires. The character of the whole Is
derived from the character of its parts
The social qualities, the intellectual de-
yelopment, the political value, and the
moral character of men, n,-thelr fitness
for the duties of life and the bliss ct i'm
mortality, will all be determined mainly
bv the ch aracter of the families whence
they eminated.
This being assumed, we would natu-
rally look for such arrangements IN Ma
ture, as would fully develop the resour
ces of the family for good, and throw
around it all the necessary safeguards.
And this wisest of provisions we have
in the institution of the Sabbath.
i In lands of pagan darkness, in which
even Nature S light is turned away from,
and her maternal voice is unheard, there
is no day of special and Ieriodical rest
No Sabbath Las spread its downy mantle
of quiet over reposing communities
There the family has its virtues and Its
] affections; but they have never equaied
lin number, Intensity, refinement, and du9
rability, the affections and virtues OF
families nurtured beneath the genial
sunshine of the Sabbath.
Tn these countries in which the SAP
hath is unknown, woman still occupies
an inferior place in the domestic scale
She is but the slave of man s conVenl'
ence. and the vassal of his lower pas
sions. She is not enthroned in the high
est place of his affections, nor Is sh'
hailed as the angel of love, who Is tt
5 minister to the behcsts Of the inner lit
i of the heart. The children, too, ar
e subjects of despotism, bounded, II
J manv instances, only by the will OF tn
tyrant father. They are not loved an
> cherished as the fathers self, multi
> b,ied. Their affections are not cultlva
> ted, their virtue is not cared for.
u This state of things must not b
/ viewed as having for its prootn'ate cause,
y primary defect of human nature. 1t
d the immediate effect of human natul
denied of its own normal conditions
~ development and elevation. All d.
l pends. instrumentally. on the sur1oun'
~ mas of our nature-the iginal impu
- ses which we receive. For,
ga pebble in the streamlct scant,
ty Has turned the course OF many river
u A dew-drop the infant plant,
Has warped the giant oak forever.
:, Human nature will rise to its fair pr
w. PORTIONS. and develope its full resource
bv only under the culture Of Nature oV
ba ordinations.
h. Let us turn, now, to those countrl
sa in which the elevating influence OF t
h. Sabbath has been brought to bear up
or families. Then, woman rises at Oh
50 to an equality with man: minister's
she alone can do, to the wants OF
~ hiober nature; and shares with him
the great interests, the enchant1
tho elories, and the blooming hopes OF l.
, 20 The children, also, are encircled Wit
ora the warm embrace of parental affect
eu and care. Affection reigns within
ont sacred domain of the family, and pc
ers and sympathy hold empire though
half its circle.
er,s But here may seem to commit
en- sophism, called by the old schools,
nod caatsu PRO causa-the assiguatlon c
.son false cause. MAY there not be,
he may be replied, "some other cause
, -, ~ this efect?" I answer, that whe
ont second fact is found following on
- first fact, all sound philosophy war;
we're us in assuming the first as cause to
4 ~ second. IF the domestic fellc
y, If which have been enumerated. are tc
r,rd onlv in connection with the due re-
of Natures Sabbath, the Sabbath ]
bea. be either the remote or the prox''
close Cause of those felicities.
for But aside from the argument frou
re- tecedent to consequent, an argu'
the NAV be instituted from the adaptatl
nlaip the rest cf the Sabbath to the cul
,olic- ton in the family of its best virtues
ecspt the development of its highest blls
,ioht The observance of the Sabbath
d the day of rest, assemblies the famll,
anted gether, and shapes the circumstant
Ike = their association in such way,