The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-12
Sabbath Keeping.

The Paris correspondent of the Southern Me-
tropoliS gives his experience of sabbath-keeping
as follows:
In my solitary chamber, in the Pdiats de
Bourbon find myself alone this calm Sunday
| evening, while Paris, and suppose the rest OF
France, is in the very zenith of Sabbath holt
day Yes, it is q fact. Sunday Is IN france,
and in other countries have visited, holiday
anxiously looked for by the toiling millions as
a day of rest and day of enjoyment. Don't
start and roll up the white of your eyes so
awfully simultaneously, my American Puritan
reader, until finish. 1t is day OF rest ana
| day of enjoyment, not only in France, but in
the larger part of Germany, in Spain, Austria,
Italy Portugal, Switzerland, among the Chris
tians in Turkey, and 5he ah oaiens
a day of rest and enjoyment, 1T is first day
of devotion and PRAYER. Never shall forget
n Sunday once spent ia bahia, IN inc hhplre
of Brazil. .Imbued with all my American no.
tions of o long face and an endless prayer
meeting on the Sabbath, l followed, early IN
the morning, the joyful sound of the church
bell, and with a crowd of pious worshlpers 1
soon found myself in the centre aisle OF the
grand gothic chapel of Bahia. The Almi ghty
was there worshiPed in n manner that, for the
first time in my life, struck me as in perfect
harmony with the grandeur, the awful majesty
and yet the childish simplicity beftting "Om
Father, which art in Heaven" lworShlped IL
my heart, though L could comprehend,wha
saw only with my eyes and ears. left the
Cathedral absorbed in thought, and really
wondering why despite my every effort, thu
heart had Suddenly become the monarch OF my M
, being and the mind, shrunk as it were i'll 1T
own nothingness should all at once turn 50
Affect n slave. After dinner LETT my hotei
+ and saunterng listlessly toward large GROVE
! | deserted on plateau outside the city, sool
= found myself surrounded by an almost count
, less mass of human beings engaged III pltche'
game of something like what they call bas
8 ball in England. Every one seemed wild Wit
:, excitement and OF couIse my e&cltaple naLhE
!, soon harmonized with the scene around m'
= But what think you was my surprise when
II recognized in the leading spirit OF the gam
"a the minister whom but a few hours before
"a saw in humble alteration before the altar
"a | the Most High. j could not believe my eye
~ I who had seen and heard the lordly Beeche
~ | the royal Tying the sanity Maffitr aud II
"a | world-renowned Munson, to see clergyma
le SO devout in the morning, yet SO thorough
To abandonne in the afternoon OF the blessed ga
81 hath We happened to walk together into u
y citv in the afternoon, and finding that he cou
of speak French quite aaently, we soon enter'
il into a friendly conversation, in the course
r. which delicately limited my astonlshment
OF seeing him at such q gathering on the Lore
h Day. It is Just because it is the Lords Da
oh NV friend, he said, that you have seen
ni- there Those you saw on the grouno are II
30 chanics, tillers of the SOIL ana marc WORK
70 Iaboripg men, From Monday nothing
"a, Saturday night they toll and they must toll
Inv earn livelihood by the sweat OF their bro
,es On the seventh day the Lord rested, ana
al the seventh day they must rest but they
ss vote the forenoon to God and the afternoon
lns recreation and physical rest rms is the less
rdi the Holy Scriptures teach, and as religion
for the tic that binds man to God, 1t is not well
the entangle it with too many knots. We part
81 and his lesson have never forgotten. Ihrou
ous 1.-THE philosophy it teaches l now look out Fl
my window upon the light-hearted throng t
ing crowds the streets, on their way 20 sc
en- fashionable and populhr rendezvous! WheFS
ne evening isrspent in innocent recreation and
the body is nervetL for the labor aud drudger,
led. the coming week.