Connecticut western news., 1872-05-17
How tO Spend the Sabbath.

A Western clergyman after asserting that time hung heavy Sabbath day on the peoples homes, goes on to tell how to make it pass shortly. Here is his ad. vice:-Take an hour Sunday morning to sit down alone, and think what you have done the past week, and agitate the question whether you have done just as you really think it best and mean to keeE on doing.
 Have you told any lies the past week: Count them on your fingers, if you can, and seriously consider if you always mean to be liar?
 Did you get drunk the past week, o1 come near it? Did you help get others drunk? Did you talk temperance and visit the cupboard to taste those new ''bitters." Do you always expect to dc such things, and when will you stop?
 Have you abused your neighbor, run down your competitor in other stores, slandered other politicians, or hurt any woman's reputation the past week? These things are unspeakably mean; you know they are. God be thanked if you haven't done them but somebody does them. I ask that somebody whether he always means to be 0 mean fellow.
 Have you gambled or slunksinto infa nous dens the past week? Nobody is obliged to tell me. But many do go tc vile places every week, Sunday included. What will twenty years of such practices make of man?
 Have you cheated anybody in the last ten days? Have you deceived any en- rloyer or kept back the just pay of any workman? Have you advertised decep- tions of any kind? Does any money stick to you, which belongs to anybody else? Are you going to make perma- nent cheat of yourself? Whats to hinder if you are cheating now?
 Did you swear last week? Don't you swear rather more than you used to, when your mother taught you? Is there any particular benefit in it? Let us see if you can stop for week!
 Are you smoking too many cigars--run- ming up debts which you don't know how to pay;- making larger swell than your capital justifes-and getting ready for smash up and run?
 It strikes us, that an hour on Sunday of cool, healthy consideration of the ac- tual status and doings of our weekday lives would be an interesting employ ment, whether satisfactory or not.
 Take another hour on Sunday to do somebody some good for which you haven't the time on any other day. Write letter to your mother, or brother or sister, whom you have forgotten for @ long time. Hunt out friend who has disappeared from your interest, and re- new a cordial acquaintance. Find out somebody who is suffering, and carry fresh cheer to him or her. Go to see folks who would be glad to see you, but whom you are not always glad to see. Visit the families of those who are work. ing hard to make rich. Help to put who is homeless. There are plenty o1 on Sundays you want to do something uncommon. That is what the day is made for. I'm talking to people who find the day dull. do not want to drive you where you do not wish to go. But we ought all of us to make of Sunday 6 finer day than the rest of the days, be. cause we have the chance. Our daily toll makes us dull. Sunday ought tc wake us up. Our temtations make u: deceitful, hard and. selfish. Sunday ought to loosen out the cords of affec ton and give us hearts of flesh. The daily life of men is burdened with sir and ugliness, streaked with deceit, fouled with lust and appetite. It deserves te be improved. Sunday is improvement time. I believe that when any one be gins to improve their time, he will soo1 find what good a church Sunday will do and the value of religion. Friends, try nv advice g. little