Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-06-16

tent TO the unholy cause which 1t was sup
posed would be promoted BY the protana-
ton OF the Lords day. For If there Is
anv truth in what We know OF the capaci-
ties and the necessities Of human nature
j, is necessary that one day in seven should
be devoted to rest. And no individual or
nation will permanently prosper while
violating this law. When the French
Revolution swept like tornado over
France, blottins out all previously estab-
lished institutions, the Christian Sunday
was swept away with the rest. They said
that one day in seven was too much for
rest from labor, and decreed that every
tenth day should be 3 holiday, instead OF
the sabbath. But, after fair trial OF the
experiment. it was found that one day OF
rest in ten was not enough for either man
or beast, and the First Consul restored the
previous law, that one day in seven should
be rest from all labor not actually neces-
>ary to be performed. But it would
seem as though the people Of this State
think il possible to improve upon the
French experimentation they say, by their
practice, that there is no necessity for any
day of rest for men or ANIMALS. But this
We believe is a very great mistake. and
one which will produce serious mischief
unless it is soon corrected. The simple
reason why one day in seven should be
set apart from other time, and spent in a
different manner from other days, Is that
man is so constituted that he needs it.
Just as il is necessary for the preservation
of the full health and vigor. that men
should sleep during portion Of every
night, so is it necessary that one day in
seven should be day Of rest from or
binary labor. Among those who have be-
lieved that there was an obligation resting
on mankind to observe one day in seven
as a period of relaxation from toll, there
have been different opinions as to the
manner in which the day should be spent.
Some, ike the Puritans, have erred on the
side of strictness. They made the Sunday
day to be dreaded by all healthy child
rem. and made it, what it was never in
tended to be, a day of modification and
fasting. On the other hand, in some of
the countries Of Europe, the people have
perverted the day into time of dissipa-
ton and excessive indulgence in amuse-
ments, injurious to health and TO morals.
The true employment Of the day, in our
opinion, lies between these two extremes.
When the Savior was in the world He
said: The Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath" That is,
man needs the, Sabbath. and it was given
him for his good; and he should spend it
in such manner as will most benefit his
moral and spiritual nature. APP
plying, now, this principle to the people
Of this State. or of this town, how should
the Sunday be observed in this COM
munity. Certainly, in = very different
from what it is now. 1t should
be a day of rest from labor. Every miner
and mechanic and laborer needs one day
in seven as a day of rest, and it is an out
rage and a wrong to deprive him Of it.
Such a system is directly calculated to
drive away and keep away from amongst
US, just that class of high-minded religious
men whom the community especially needs.
There is no man who can labor continu-
ously seven days in a week without suffer-
ing from it in an enfeebled constitution
and a shortened life. Every one has
noticed the tired and jaded look which
our working men, almost universally.
present. They are, as q class, finely
formed Get of men physically, because they
are, to great extent, made up OF the
flower of Eastern men who enjoyed in
their boyhood' the 'healthful influences Of
a Sunday of rest. But, after I year or
two of Sunday labor they lose their elasti-
city of step, and the muscular vigor which
they brought with them from the home of
their childhood. 1t is no small advantage
to a working man TO have one day in the
week which he can. call his own; which
be may spend at leisure with his family;
in which he may make himself clean and
neat and in which he can feel that he is
not slave to his employer. or'to the cor
poration for which he labors during the
week. And for men of business the rest
of Sunday is not less necessary. Pro-
badly no class of men in the world need
the halloWilg influences Of ga Sunday
web spent: more than the business men
OF this community. And no one who
does no. take Sunday asa day of rest,
has any idea of the refreshment and re-
newed vigor which its proper observance
gives. AS an able financier in New York.
in the great financial pressure Of 1887,
said: Il should never have lived through
that year but for the Sundays. As every
week wore on things looked darker and
darker, until on Saturday night it seemed
as though / was going into dense fog.
But when Sunday came, dismissed all
my business from my mind, and spent the
day in the good Olaway. Every Monday
morning things looked brighter, and l
finally got safely through. But. If it had
not been for the Sundays. I firmly believe
I should have been in my grave" But,
it is not enough, simply to stop working
on Sunday. 1t is not meant for . day Of
idleness or sleep, or dissipation, or for
lounginE about saloons. This way Of
spending the day would not make . man
better fitted to go to his business again on
Monday, and-nO way Of spending the day
can be right which does not produce this
effect. Every person who can do 70
should spend some portion of the day in
the public worship Of God. Every man
owes duties to God. as well Is to bis fel.
Inv men, and one of7 thoSs duties d the