Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-24
SUNDAY HEADING.

The duty Of the happy 10 to help the SUI
fsring y bear their woe.
We are not worthy Of loving truth when
W caa love anything more than that
Our prayers and Gsd's mercy are like
two buckets in we'll while the one ss-
csnds the other dssesnds.
The subject ofchurch music 10 engaging
much attention in the religious journals
Even the Quaker papers are discussing it.
Love 10 ofthe nature Of the burning glass.
whish. kept still in one plsss, 6rsth; .chssgsd
often, 1t dosth nothing.
'Assist . man in raising . burden, bat
not in laying it down. Let the help you
rssdsr - ethsrs b towards accomplishing
sslf-assistancs, to carry aad not escape their
burdsss."
The Rev. Dr.. Batter, missionary from
India, lately said be chad never heard q
hearty, happy laugh from woman outside
tho pale Of Christianity" With every op-
portunity for observation, be had never seen
among them . happy female face.
There ere nsw in astivs opaEatien eighty
six Protestant Missionary Associations seat
Tered throughout Tie uasvsngsliasd portion
Of the globe. The united receipts Of thsss
associations during the last year exceeded
&l2 ,0O0, 900. One ordained missionary ID
laboring in China to day to about every
1000, 900 u ishabitants.
PLANNING Wosk on 6unDAY.-The fol-
loving 10 an extract Of an interesting lettes
Of Sir Matthew Hale to his grandchildren.
The testimony Of that learned and upright
jurist to the good effects resulting from q
strict observance Of the Sabbath cannot bl
unimportant. The original 10 deposited in
the British Museum. 1t was 6rst pub.
lishsd in the Christian Observer, in London
in 1919:
81 will acquaint you With . truth, that
above forty years experience. and strict Oh.
servation Of m, self. hath assuredly taught
me. have been, nearly City years, . man
- much conversant in business, and that oil
moment and Importance, ~ most mon and
| assure yen, Was never under any incli-
nation 70 fanaticisu1, enthusiasm or supsrsti.
ten
"In oil this time, have most ind ustrious.
y observed in myself any my concerns
these three things: Whenever I have On
dsrtaksn any secular business on the Lord
day (Which WAS not absolutely necessary, }
that business never prespersd aud succeed
cd we'll with ms.
NAY, II had set mysslfthst day but to
forecast or design any temporal business, to
b. done or performed afterward, though
such forecast were just and honsst 10 them
selves, and bad - fair prospect - could
30 expected, yet have bssn disap pointed
in the efeoting Of it. So that il grew almest
provsrbial with me, when any importuned
me to any secular business that day. 10 an
swsr them, that if they suspected it 70 sue
coed amiss, then they might desire my un.
dsrtaking it o, that day. And this was %
certain an observation Of me, that feared
to think ofany secular business on that dsv.
because the resolution then taken would be
disappointed or unsuccessful.
THAT, always, the more closely applied
myself to the duties Of the Lords day. the
more happy and successful were my bust
ness and employ msnts Of the week follow.
ing. So that could, from The loose or strict
observance Of that day. take just prospec,
and true calculation Of my temporal success
in the ensuing week. Though my hands
and mind have bssn ~ full Of secular bust.
ness, both before and since was . Judge,
-. It may be, any mans in England, yet
sever wanted time, in my six days, to ripen
and ct myself for the business and employ.
msnts had to do; though borrowed no,
enc enc minute from the Lords day to pre-.
pare for IL BY study o. otherwise. But, on
the other hand. If I had, at any time, Dor.
rowsd from this day any time for my sscu.
lsr enjsymsnts, l found it did further me
less than il had left it alone: and. thsss
fore, whom some years. sxpsrisnss, upen q
most attentive and vigilant observation, had
given me this instruction. l grew psrsmp-
terily resolved never, in this kind, TO make
. breach upon the Lord day, which bavs
strictly observed for the past thirty years
This relation 10 most certainly and q
perimsntally true, and hath hesa dsslassd
BY me to hundreds u persons, - I now de-
clare il 70 you"