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Show The Sabbath Day. THE division of time, made by God, provides for all the necessities of man temporal and spiritual. There could be no conflict if adjusted according to the designs and command of God. "Six days shalt thou labor, and shalt do all thy work. On the seventh spiritual interests are substituted for the temporal. God's generosity in asking ask-ing only the seventh part of man's life is greater than that of parents who demand a third of their child's life. The justice of God's claim is evident, and should appeal to man's conscience to keep holy the. Sabbath. The Sunday not only gives rest from physical toil, but points upward to the eternal repose that succeeds the trials and hardships patiently borne beneath the shadow of Calvary. It is to the poor and weary a happy day, for whilst in a worldly sense it may brin no real rest, yet they, who look with resignation to the Father, above and sigh forth their sorrow at the foot of the cross, are well night already crowned. A patient sigh from a suffering suf-fering heart is the sweetest offering at the throne of God. It makes its bur-densvhis bur-densvhis and makes him its reward. This is the nature- of the Sabbath which breaks in upon the human family fam-ily like a mighty sound from eternity and marks off the flight of time. How j many such warnings shall man re- ceive? How many such sounds shall he hear? Few; therefore, those few should be holy in his sight, and in 1 them man should see the finger of God ' tracing out his destiny. They should ; be holy in sincerity of heart, entire for-getfulness for-getfulness of temporal interests and unreserved homage to the Creator. t Man's great object, when the Sunday comes should be to keep it holy. Many j regard the Sunday as a day of pleasure pleas-ure rather than a day of prayer. We are informed that two-thirds of our j population never enter a church, belong I to no religious creed and are willing to I risk the future for the passing pleasures pleas-ures and short-lived happiness of this lif-2. Preachers of the gospel instead of abusing one another should devote their time, energy and zeal in rour.din? up the lost sheep. The souls of our countrymen are as precious to God as those of the inhabitants in the distant islands' of the l acific. On all should , be impressed the necessity of keeping holy the Sabbath, which in the order of creation was set apart for the service ser-vice of God and man's spiritual benefit. |