The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1870-01-21
Sunday Reading.

A WALK ABOUT ZioS.-Ssbbath, Jan. p, A. N.
at the Uniyersalist Church. Sermon by the pas
tor, Rev. Mr.. Weaver, from Mark 2 81. ''The
Sabbath Was made for man, and not man for the
Sabbath" The introduction was natural. and
put the hearers on IN easy and legitimate train
Of thought, to the theme drawn from the text.
which was, LIST, The adaptation Of the Sabbath
to man physically as day Of rest. This point
was fairly stated. and shown that all physical
beings, beasts. birds and fish, need this rest.
All nature demands rest. Thus the great Author
of our being has provided for this demand, by
giving Us one day out Of seven, The French
attempted to annul Coils law and give one tenth,
but Il failed. ID, Man has another and higher
motive for keeping the Sabbath. viz the improve
ment and elevation Of the mental faculties &c.
81, The enlargement Of our moral senslbilities
aud growth Of religious life. This will not be
likely 10 be reached without due attention to the
means of improvement, as reading the Bible,
attending church and listening to gospel truth.
Many are 50 engro.sed in business or pleasure
through the week until late Saturday night, that
they claim to be too tired. and spend the Sab
hath in sloth, visiting. riding out, or in sleep,
as the alligator sleeps in the sand. These points
were ably sustained, and wen calculated to pro-
duce favorable and beneficial impressions on the
mind Of the Sabbath breaker. Hope he viii
preach II again. o.
BippEYoRp, Jan. Q, 1870.
When the summer day Of youth is slowly
wasting away into the nightfall Of age, and the
shadows Of the past year grow deeper and deep
or as life wears to close. il is pleasant to look
back through The vistas Of time upon the joys
and sorrows o: carly years. II we haVes home
to shelter, or hearts to rejoice with US, and
friends who have been gathering around our
fireside, then the rough places Of our wayfa ring
will be worn and smOothel away in the twilight
Of life, while the bright sunny spots we have
passed through win grow brighter and more
beautiful Happy, indeed. are those whose in
tercourse with the world has not changed the
course Of their hOlier feelings, or broken those
musical chords Of the heart whose vibrations
are 30 melodious. 50 tender and so touching in
the evening Of age.
Count Bismarck Of Prussia, hearing that the
peasants ON his estate were in the habit Of
working on Sundays, wrote to his bailif to stop
II. lie replied that all their time was occupied
in working on his estate, and they hsd only
Sundays to look after their own land. The
count then authorised him TO allow those who
had land to harvest their own eruPs first when
they were ripe. but to forbid their working on
Sundays. The peasants were 50 much affected
By this generous offer. that they resolved the
count should lose nothing by caring for them
first ; and rs the result. his work was better
attended to then ever.
Clovis, the first Christian king Of France /.
who regned from 49, to oil, was converted in
this way. Clotilds, his wife was Christian,
and was very anxious TO convert her husband
He steadily resisted her persuatiOn, until in the
midst Of battle, his troops began TO give way,
and then he made vow. that IL the God Of Clio
tilia would gran, him the victory, he would he
baptized. He was victorious, and kept his vow.
On Christmas day A. d. io6, he was b,pti,cl
at Rheims, together with his sister, and sbou,
5000 Of his subjects.
Bad books are like ardent spirits they furn-
ish neither ailment nor medicine they are poi
son. Both intoxioate-one the mind, the other
A. To- k.r h.