Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-06-08
SATURDAY NIGHT.


rest. After the tumult Of war our W
country and Europe enjoy a Sabbath
season of repose. Very reluctant are
the European nations to open battle
again; even the belligerent N
improving n recent opportunity says that
he did not desire to learn war any more.
Do you remember that Christ was born
in a time Of profound peace, in II worlds
Sabbath? The great doors of the Tenn
pie of Janus were closed. His mission,
in itself, was peace, and according 20
prophecy, he came in the quiet OF Rome
time. We believe that the majority OF
our people, in one form or another, do
more work on Sunday than on any other
day Of the week. Most people eat more
on Sunday than on any other day. Now,
under the sanction Of Paul, who wrote
10 Timothy "for his stomach's sake
we respectfully suggest to all the broth
rem and sisters of every religious and
political belief, tina, be in Storey or in
Nevada, give your stomach a rest on the
Lords day. Don't make a "big dinner
day of it. Your whole physical nature
requires spelling" rs often AS once a
week. We caudidly confess tina, we
have always had a high regard for one
par. of the religious practice Of Catho-
lies, Episcopalians and, we might say,
Mahouedans, Though Mahomet's long
fas, is too much Of 4 good thing
on accouut Of their dietary rogula-
tions. And we assure the few OF
our readers who have not tried it,
that nothing tends so much to the pro-
motion of clearness of mind NJ an occa-
sioral abstemiousness in eating. That
it aids in the development Of the devo-
tional feelings, the pure moral seuti-
ments of humanity a great and unrary-
ing and everywhere known experience
teSllueSs vi NVutsS, eoSs '" AfNf
cule those who fas. for conscience's OF
hygieue's sake;butag great practicaltruth
is here involved. Weactually believe that
in nine cases out of ten, when n man in
ordinarily good health, and under the
psalmists limit Of what what should be
the average age, first appreciates in him'
self symptoms Of disease, if he would
bu, stop eating, and lay down on com
Portable couch for a day, the incipieut
patient would ecover. The doctors
seem to agree on this point; and, by the
way, they agree far better than the ID
age would indicate. Byron WAS wont
to fast for the purpose Of enjoying the
delightful dreams he could thus obtain,
But this is travelling out Of our Sunday
record, on the advice to give nature, i
possible, a rest all through, on Sunday
The habit which formerly-if not nov
existing TO so greatau eIteut-ostaiued
and was very much encouraged BY cler
gymen, Of reading heavy doctrina
works on religious subjects is very per
nicious. We cannot swear, however
that that practice has been Sunday
WEAKNESS and an accession Of physical
or mental prostration in Storey county
Blu, it is of application to say, that the
brain should not be taxed on Sunday
by the study of debating books, where
the week day employment is principally
mental or is sedentsry. A manual Ia
borer may perhaps, without detrimens
study Newman or Whes,ley on the FRS
day, and thrive upon the pabulum then
taken.
Did you notice DR.. Stebbins recon-
m~endation, that a girl study first the
Bible and then Shakespeare? It sounds
queer to some, perhaps. Yet it is the
same advice that John Bird Sumner, late
Arch Bishop of Canterbury and Primats
of all England, gave An Oxford gradua'
ting class. And Bishop Clark Of Rhode
Island has said very nearly the same
thing.
What a wonderful book Buuyan's Pill.
grim's Progress, is,-isn't it? Just a:
fresh for reading tomorrow, as vher
you were delighted with it as a child,
" You never read it," did you say
Where have you been living? Go straight
to a bookstore and get a copy, and COM
mence il, reading tomorrow. All eccle.
siastical authorities sanction it. Bun.
yam was II tinker. But he was the only
tinker that was ever a Bunyan.
The question Of open communion, from
a Baptist point of view, is earnestly dis.
cussed in a pamphlet by Rev. Henry
Sawtelle, recently pastor of the Second
Baptist church Of San Francisco, Cal
i~fornia, published there by Joseph Win.
terburn 4 Co. Open communion is eI.
teusively prevalent among the Baptists
Of Great Britain, but is in this country
almost n new question. With the pres.
emit tendency to Christian union, it il
likely to be much more generally and
freely discussed and adopted than here
tofore. And this pamphlet is one o.
many indications that it will more rap,
idly come into favor with the Baptist.
Of the Pacific coast than among theil
brethren Of the older States.
Here is an item that will fit a large
number Of good people hereabouts: a
minister once prayed in the pulpit that
I the Lord would bless the congregation
assembled, and that portion of 1t which
was on the way to church, and who wer,
at home getting ready to come and thai
in His infinite patience, he would gram
the benediction to those who reached the
house Of God just in time for that The
clergyman succeeded in breaking up a
bad habit, which resisted all legitimate
appeals"