Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-08-10


hands and calm the fevered brain. And
as matter Of fact, there is no rest no re-
taxation SO utter as that offered by well |
kept Sunday. This is simply fact which
no Psychologist will deny. There is per-
feet rest and quiet for the body, and to the
worker with his hands, that may be the
main point. But there is far more than
this. The mind is called away from all
its cares and all its common vulgar inter-
ests. A new set of thoughts and interests
are presented. 1t is lifted out of the Office
and the street and the market place-out
of its narrowness, its isolated cares, and
put on the broad ground of universal hui
man interests, ON its brotherhood towards
men and its sonship towards God. The
sOrdid cares of the hour are all forgotten.
The dust and heat and glare and restless
ness of hurrying life give place to the
thoughts of the great peace of God. The |
man is called to rise out of the changing |
into the unchanging, out of the temporary |
into the eternal, out of the low into them
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calm of the eternal peace, out of the smoke
and dust of earth into tho blue abysses of
everlasting glory and calm. The holy in
fuences fall upon the waiting, open soul
like benediction. Sunday becomes the
crown and glory of the week. 1t is the day
of peace, the day of highest thoughts, the
day for home, and church, and the social
lgreeting of friends, the freemen's day amid
the weeks slavery the one day which God
Igives as badge and symbol of that liber-
ty which Christ bought for the captives of
the world and time. A well kept Sunday,
therefore, perfectly meets the wants of the
modern man. 1t offers him just the rest
which he requires. There is no relaxation
so complete as that which presents thoughts
and interests utterly different from those
with which man is commonly engaged,
and the loftier those thoughts and the high
er those interests the better. The jaded
faculties never enjoy such perfect rest as
when another set of faculties are called in
to play and exercise while the tired one
sleeps in calm.
We are not going now on the theological
argument for Sunday; we leave that en-
tirely untouched, except in so far as we rec
ognize the certain truth that good theol0-
gy is good sense, and that the requirements
of a true religion are founded on the surest
basis of the eternal fitness of things.
And we say then, that never more than
0 in this country and at this time was Sun
0 day an essential element in human life for
d its well being. and not, be it marked, the
h Continental Sunday of military reviews,
o brass bands and beer gardens, nor the old
/ Jewish Sabbath" of the Puritans with its
e stern and funeral gloom, but the christian
IL and churchly Lords Day-the home and
j. church Sunday-the cheerfulest and bright
It est Of all the seven, when the old primeval
7, curse-'Tn the sweat filthy brow shalt thou
IT eat bread" is suspended for the sons of
a Adam and they stand on the earth Christ's
lie emancipated free men.
l. There is no escape from the inevitable
"a laws of life. A man cannot work sever
K days instead of six with the intensity with
out paying the penalty some time. He may
p stimulate for while, the weary powers OF
a. brain and nerve by the common method o
o. pouring down alcohol in some of its shapes
6. in quantities to suit But this only post
# pones the inevitable awakening. 1t make
n the blow come only more surely and NOR
ne suddenly. Some day the merchants eye
al blur over the columns of his ledger. Tn
- figures will not, for the first time in his life
i'll come right, and hegoes home and the fam
On lily physician takes the law into his owl
hands, and prescribes a year or two ofSun
or days together, or, softening of the brain
lis Just as the merchant prefers. Some da
m the prosperous lawyer sinks confused i
of the middle of successful speech, and ca
an no more command his thoughts than if h
it were an imbecile. Some day the statesma
ly drops in the senate, or in the office, an
paralysis enforces series of Sundays i
he which neither hand, nor foot, nor braiI
of can do aught but rest until the long re:
We closes all. Or some day pistol shot, {
w. sudden insanity winds up a life that ma
i'm stupidity thought could be proftably live
w. in defiance of the laws of God and his ow
.he constitution.
led We are not placing this thing on tt
kes highest motive, because the highest mott,
be. is powerless to touch the trangressors. "
he only say the transgression does not pay
old We assure every man who reads this, TIL
itv common sense, and well ascertained sciel
:. tifc truth perfectly agree with religion
~, and that it does not pay to work on Sun
;cb days, that, ON the other hand, it is the mo
aro reckless waste of time, the madest extrav
Ian gance in which man may indulge. Ifar
am man doubts the clergyman, he may appe
arc to the physician and we are very certa
ont the two will perfectly agree-Sunday VOL
~. is suicide.
in And by working on Sunday we do n
no. mean only the formal going to the office
I'd counting room and the set working the
80 as on other days. There is not so much
on this done after all. We mean the carr
:, ing mans business about with him
.,o that day, the taking it home and poiso
ing the fre-side with it, the taking it
his church and poisoning the church with ii
Two This is the shape usually, which Sund
,er. work takes, its insidious and cheating shar
NO The man sits among his children and C;
5ov culates to-morrow's bargains. He sits
en-. his church pew, and adds up the columns
late his ledger. He carries his sordid, vulg
res. worries, his weary unrest, his fierce ami
ia ton, his greed, his plotting, into church
Itch home, and spoils Gods best blessing
and his thick ignorance and obstinacy. 1t
less time to warn ourselves, all. We must Ii
cial our lives under the laws God has give
n at and a man may be very certain that
site gains in the long run, gains in power,
ton length of life, in force of brain, by usi
nds the Sunday for the end for which God ga
ent. it. The atmosphere of worship, of pray
, in and benediction, of lofty and grand trut
And and interests, is healthy and refreshing
and mosphere to the world-weary brain a
v or heart. No man can carry his busine
his bargains, and sales. his worldly am