The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1868-09-02
j PLANNING WORK, ON SUNDAY.


tliai PLANNING WORK, ON SUNDAY,
I FheqfolloSing, asn oextract of AN in.
|terestiag letter Of Sir Matthew II ale, to his
graad-chiIdren. The testimeny of that
learned and upright Jurist, to the good eff.
fects resulting IRON a strict, observance Of
the Sabbath, canaot be uBimportaut, The
original isdepesited 10 the British Museum.
Il was 6rst published in the "Christian
Observer" in London, 1918: "'''''
-. will acquaint you with d truth, that
above forty years experience, and strict
observation Of myself. hath assaredly taught
me. | have been, nearly City years, q man
as much c0Rversant in business, and that of
mement and Importance, as most meh and
! assure you, | was never under any in
clination to fanaticism, en:hssiasm or su-
perstitisn. '"" ~ =. 49, 't'&TL .aoa sdF
" la all this time, I have most indus
triodsly observed in myself and my con.
Germs, these three thingssl- Whenever /
have undertaken any secular business on
the Lords day (which was not absolutely
necessary that business never prospered
and sacceedednwell with me, ieG1 simg,
" Nay, ifIlhad set myself that day but
to forecast or design aay temporal bu usiaess.
to be done or performed afterwards, though
such forecast were Just and honest in them
selves and had as fair prospect ,assceuid
be expected, yet / have been Disappointed
in the effecting of it, or in the success of it.
So that it grew almost proyerbial with me,
when any importuned me to any secular
business.that day, to answer them that if
they suspected IT TO succeed amiss,. then
they might desire my undertaking it upon
that day. Aud this was SO certain an, OBJ.
sersation OF me- that / feared to think OF
any secular business on that day, because
the resolution then taken would be disap-
pointed, or unsuccessful. ,si 4a .~.s gs'
81 "That, always. the more closely Iappli-
ed myself TO the duties Of the Lords day,
the saore happy and successful were my
business and employments Of the week fol-
lowiRg. So that [ could, from ,he loose or
sirict observance Of that day, take just
prospect and true calcaixtion of nv liem-
porai success iu the ensuing week. Though
my hands aRd mind have been as full of
secular business, both before and since
was Judge. as, ii may be. any mans in
England. yet | never wanted time, in
my six days, TO ripen and ct myself for the
business aud employments [ had to do
though borrowed Rot one minute from the
Lords day. to prepare for il study or 9th
erwise. But, ON the other hand, If had
at any time borrowed from this day any
time for my secular employments. 1 found
IL did further me less than il I had let it
alone; and therefore, when some years ex-.
perience upon q most attentive and vigi
liant observation. had given me this instruc-
tion, grew peremptorily resolved never,
in this kind, to make breach upon the
Lords day. which have strictly observed
for ths lssI thirty years.
81" This relation is most certainly and ex-
perimentally true, and hath been declared
by me to huadreds Of persons, as 1 now
declare il to you." j. ....
SINGULAR CAUSE or PaRlLYsIs.-A little
son of Oscar r. Davis, of whitehall, New.
York, died day or two since of paral ysis,
induced in the following singular manner:
With several other boys he was in the ha-
bit of laying his ears on the rails Of the rail-
road track, while others would 20 of some
distance and pound the track with stones.
Every one knows that sound is conveyed
much more rapidly and with much greater
intensity by solid substances than il il
through The air, and by this means sharp.
ringing sound vas produced, completely
dealening the listeners for a momentum
fact, the boys called il playing deafening.
II seemed to have a greater effect on Mr..
Da,is's boy than on the others, for. as he
stated after he was taken sick, the deafness
would sometimes last for half an hour.
He was finally taken with dreadful pain
in the head, terminating IN parsiysiscf one
side ol the head and throat. a~a
Two car loads cf peaches, Il, slI about
As 900 pounds, passed throgh Columbus on