Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
SUNDAY RESI-.
The Physiological Law of Rest Which
Demands One Day in Seven.

SUNDAY heSl.
The Physiological Law of Rest Which
Demands One Day in Seven.
Rufus Choate, when at the climax of
his reputation, said that his brain would
long before have given way, owing to
the intense and constant strain of pro-
fessional work, had it not been for the
refreshing and recreating influence of
the fiction, poetry, history and Greek
and Latin classics. But Rufus Choate
did die of an overworked brain, which
shattered a nervous system that knew
but little OF the restfulness of relaxa-
ton.
What the great orator sought for in
books, the Jealous man of business and
the faithful man-of-all-work may find
in the periodical rest OF Sunday. men
who labor six days i'll the week and rest
on the SEVENTH said Dr. Fare, in his
testimony before a committee of the
House OF Commons, twill be more
healthy and live longer, other things
being equal, than those who labor
seven; they will do more work and bet
ter work"
Twenty leading physicians of England
said: eve say ditto 10 DR.. Fare"
The managers of large stables, where
several hundred horses are kept, say a
horse must have one days rest in seven,
or he will break down. One days rest
in ten, OF nine, or even eight DAYS, will
not keep him in working condition.
ness, and-aothing more. He made .
fn,.t,Jr,n 0,,l 1yN,1-nl ,,o Io,,, -, a.
week, as if he was struggling to gain
his first ten thousand dollars.
One day, in the midst Of his pros.
perity, his mental Vision being dazed by
the apprehension of some coming evil,
he took his own life. The physicians.
Judgment was: ''Insanity caused by
o~verwork." The friends said: ':IIe had
worked seven days in the week for
years; that killed him."
MI. b was the PRESIDENT of aman-
utacturing company, the management
of which kept him from his home six
days. On Saturday he would return
home, taking with him a large package
OF business papers, and passed Sunday
in examining them.
''lFhy do you labor and toll as you
do?" said Il Christian friend. 'Six
days in the week are enough for one to
work, who wishes to retain health.
You will kill yourself by this continuous
strain. Besides, my dear friend, you,
are neglecting the better part of your
self, as well asy our family, by allowing
business to absorb your Sundays"
Il know t." he said, sadly. .'ButI
must do it, or my business will get
ahead OF me. BY and byI hope to get
time to rest on Sundays, but 1 can't
now.n
He went on working seven days in
the week. and died, in the prime Of life,
OF soltening of the brain.
"Had it not been for the weekly rest
OF the Sabbath" said a Boston mer-
chant OF twenty years successful bust
ness, IL should have been a maniac
long ago. 1t was nothing but the quiet
OF that day which rested my brain and
saved 1t from giving way under the con-
slant pressure"
II have had an extensive acquaint-
ance with business men, said another
Boston merchant, ''and l can not recall
one who worked seven days in the week
who DID not shorten his life OF 90 in
sane"
Some men say: "Oh, the Fourth Com
mandmcnt is an old Jewish law intend
ed1or an isolated farming people-it is
not applicable to modern Utilization"
That is a mi.take-it is the command
OF a higher than human intelligence, the
declaration of the physiological law OF
rest which demands obedience one day
IN seven under the penalty of physical
punishment that shall make the violator
an lmbecile.-IoutA's Companion.
DIR. Felix Adler can not after all
INIT his ethical religion to simple duty.
Hut he thinks that the Deity is SO vasta
parsonage. or something. that silence IS
the best treatment the mind can render
the sub ect. How to exact this silence
or attain to it he does not tell. So the
culture which began without a God has
already found one loo great to be NEIL
'lohed IN hymn or prayer. BY the
way Dr. Adler has mentioned blu
with great reverence in the Inatar'aS
her1ew. The Deity, then, is too big 1or
a church but about right for the Om-
t011aD Revica0.-Curyent. .
Every good affection, every holy
action, INTO which your God may io"o
you, all your bosom struggles, YOU
hungers and tears and protestatlons.
wlll be the Travelling only Of a prlnceii
birth and q glOriOuS SpnshiD with ecu