The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-08-20
How to Keep the Sabbath.

We answer, afirmatively, wholly to the
Lord. We are not only to sanctify the
Sabbath, but to sanclify ourselves to keep
it holy. The physical advantages are
great in It's observance, for the system of
man runs down more during the day,
than it resuscitates at n ght, and hence God
has thrown in one day out of seven to keep
up the equilibrium. Then the intellectual
Improvement that may be made in an ordi
nary life time in spending six hours every
Sabbath, consecutively, in a life time OF
sixty years, would make, counting twelve
hours to the day, four years and one humid
red days, or counting forty years for life
time, and we have period OF three years,
nearly time sufficient to acquire an academic
education. Let all do this and we would
have a nation of scholars. But mankind
mainly needs a Sabbath as a moral and re
ligious being. In proportion as he neg
lects to cultivate the moral element, he is a
heather.
Blot out our Christian Sabbath, and as a ma
ton we would relapse into worse night than
that of the dark ages. AS in an individual,
so in q nation. Show me man that disre-
CARDS the holy Sabbath, and l will show
you man void of moral principle, and his
moral perceptions so palsied that be needs
the stimulous of pains and penalties to
quicken him. And hence the wise arrange
ments given to the Jews in the statutes !;
and our Legislators have shown much wis
dom in thus emulating Israels lawgiver,
/ in Incorporating and commanding a strict
observance of the Sabbath in their civil
code. Let the sacred hours of this day be
spent in either attending Sabbath school
or bible clash hearing and receiving di-
vine instruction from the sacred desk, and
reading the bible and other religious books
in visiting the sick and feeding the poor
in fasting and prayer for ourselves, for
/ sinners, our country and the world-in
meditation and watching for to do all
| possible good to all men as God gives Us
ability. This is what God requires-he
asksn more-he will have nothing short
/ he requires the whole heart-the whole
/ time-the whole of our little talent. Aud
will we grudge him one day out Of seven {?
Would those that are thus but half chris
Iians be content to be but half saved I?
/ Would those who are thus not far from the
4 kingdom of heaven, be willing 10 be utterly
excluded thence for arriving no nearer to a
/ due observance of the Lordsday /? Am I
afraid of SabaGzing with the Jews, that I
carelessIy omit keeping the day as a good
christian? Where can be the harm OF
over doing in. Gods worship, if I could
overdo? But my savior has told me, when
l have done all am an improbable ser
want, where is the hazard, where the. pos
sibiity of doing too much Whereas, In
doing too little, in falling short OF perform
ing due obedience on the Sabbath, TIE
1 type of my eternal home hope to see. ]
i may also fall short of eternal life. Oh
my brethren and countrymen, let US stop
short all our Sabbath breaking. all our ia
Temperance, ali our debauchery, all our
swearing, all our sympathy with slavery in
any form and put away evil from US. and
turn 70 God with one heart and one mind.
aud see if he viii not stay his judgements
from US. and pour us out blessing unfi
there shalEno. be room enough to receive
il. J. H. II.