WHAT would it be? Labor without rest; care without solace; probation without preparation; a night without day.
To the laboring man, the loss of the Sabbath would bring unceasing toil without increased compensation and a consequent wasting of physical strength which would soon wear out the machinery of life. It would rob him of the allotted period for mental and spiritual improvement, and for home duties and enjoyments. Brutalized in mind, body, and association, he would sink to the level of the serf, be the sport of capital, and end his days in heathenism.
To the family, the Sabbath lost would entail the loss of the home day—the day of domestic reunion, instruction worship, and charity. Family government would lose its tone; family joys would die out; domestic purity would be imperiled—for the two oldest institutions in the world are interlinked—and family piety would become extinct.
To the church, a loss of the Sabbath would involve the loss of its solemn assemblies, its godly ministry, its day for edification and action, its season for domestic and associated instruction of the young. An Arctic winter—without light, or heat, or food—is but an emblem of the state of the Christian world without the Sabbath and its ordinances.
A State without a Sabbath must be without liberty. To a free State the Sabbath brings the support of some of the most powerful elements of self-government. It inspires respect for law, divine and human. It fosters the sense of omnipresent Deity, and accountability. It engenders a lively conscience, more potent to restrain from crime than all legislative or judicial guards. Its educational force, through the pulpit, the Sabbath-school, and the fireside, quickens the intellect and moulds the heart of a nation. It gives the weekly occasion for illustrating the equality of men before God, and of inculcating the great lesson of human brotherhood. It is the foe of despotism and the ally of freedom. The nation that has the Sabbath may dispense with armies and tax-gatherers for their support; no nation on the globe without the Sabbath, or with only a profane holiday in its stead, has free institutions, or dare disband its standing armies.
The soul without the Sabbath would grope its way through a rayless night to the "blackness of darkness forever." For while man might give heed to eternal concerns on any or all days, universal observation proves that contemners of the Sabbath despise and wonder and perish. No man who defies the authority of God, and willfully profanes the Lord's day, can have the temper of a child of God on other days. Think of a world of souls without a Sabbath, and the image of hell rises upon the vision. Think of a world waking each seventh day to the consciousness of the presence and power of a creating, redeeming God and Saviour; the families of earth bowing in worship before their several altars, going up to his temples to render their homage and hear his truth, and bearing forth the principles and spirit of the gospel in all the relations of life; and you have antedated that millennial Sabbath which promise, prophecy, and providence are hastening on, and which the day, the word, and the Spirit of God conspire to usher in.
He is the enemy of the laborer, of the family, of the church, of the State, and of the soul, who profanes or degrades the Sabbath, and who would rob either of its priceless blessings.—Am. Messenger.
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Letter to M. Hull.
By Isaac Jones; J. S. Clark
Brother Hull: We take this method of communing with you, supposing it to be the most certain manner of proceeding. We learn from the letter you sent to brother Coffman, that you intend to move to Iowa City in this month; also that you expect to come to this part of Iowa about the first of June. This is good news to a few in this vicinity, and I think by the enquiry that is among the people, saying, When is Hull coming back, that you would get large and attentive congregations. One request we make, that if you get to Iowa City, come if you can to this neighborhood the first chance, and preach a few times at least, here. There are some I think, that would come in, that likely will not if you do not come. I think it is as brother Cornell says, that when a messenger spreads the truth in a new field, he can accomplish more there than almost any one else. It appears so here at any rate. We are standing here without an organization, trying to keep the commandments of God while we are neglecting the faith of Jesus, except what we have within us. We think it is necessary to keep the faith to some extent, in ordinances and letting our light shine. Write and let us know where you are and what you think of doing.
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ISAAC JONES.
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The Plan of Salvation
By Editor
We give this week an extract from the Plan of Salvation, containing as forcible an illustration as we have ever seen of the power brought to bear upon rebellious man for his redemption. It represents the Saviour as coming down upon this fallen globe to draw into allegiance to God the alienated heart of man, by a manifestation of his divine love, even as if the sun, the great center, which, by its attractive power holds together the solar system, should leave its sphere and follow some planet which had broken from its orbit, to throw around it an increased power of attraction and draw it back again to revolve in harmony with its system. We venture to affirm that the reader cannot peruse it without feeling the cords of that love which binds him to God multiplied and strengthened, and his heart glowing afresh with affection towards that Being who at so great a sacrifice came down to bid us be reconciled to God.
New Works.
By James White
Views and Experience in relation to Entire Consecration and the Second Advent, addressed to the Ministers of the Portsmouth, N. H., Baptist Association. This work was written fifteen years since, by F. G. Brown. It shows the true spirit of the great Advent movement, and the deep work of grace in those whom God led out to look for the coming of his Son. It will greatly cheer and bless the believing soul. Every brother should have one, and two or three to lend his neighbors. Price 5 cents a copy.
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Note from Bro. Frisbie.
By J. B. Frisbie
BRO. SMITH: I have closed my lectures at Orleans, having tarried three weeks. There was a good interest to hear the new things from the old Bible.
A few give encouragement to keep the Sabbath, but what the final result will be I cannot tell. I leave it with the Lord. Paul may plant and Apollos water, but God giveth the increase. I feel a burden and prayer for the salvation of some in that place where I have been so kindly treated and patiently heard, hoping that many may yet have their eyes opened to see the present truth and be willing to obey. There are those who will think for themselves; therefore I have great hope.
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APPOINTMENTS.
By John Norton Loughborough
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the church in La Porte, Ind., Sabbath, April 2d, after which I design spending some time in the vicinity of North Liberty.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Quarterly Meetings.
By James White
We now design laboring in Michigan during the warm season, and propose visiting a number of our churches about once in three months, and being out somewhere nearly every Sabbath. This arrangement would embrace twelve places. Mrs. W. will accompany us. We shall remember Otsego, Monterey, Caledonia and Wright, when the weather shall be milder. Sabbath, April 2d, we will, Providence permitting, be at Jackson.
JAMES WHITE
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Hymns for those who keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus. This Book contains 352 Pages, 430 Hymns and 76 pieces of Music. Price, 60 cents.---In Morocco 65 cents.
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Sabbath Tracts, Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4. This work presents a condensed view of the entire Sabbath question.---184 pages Price 15 cents.
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Man not Immortal; the only Shield against the Seductions of Modern Spiritualism. 148 pp. 15 cents.
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The Nature and Obligation of the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment, with remarks on the Great Apostasy and Perils of the Last Days. Price 5 cents. The same in German, 10 cents.
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The Sabbath. Containing valuable articles on 2 Cor. iiiCol. ii, 14–17, Who is our Lawgiver? The two ills. of Matt. v, 18, Consistency, &c. Price 5 cents.
Perpetuity of the Royal Law.---Price 5 cents.
Last Work of the True Church.---Price 5 cents.
Review of Crozier. This work is a faithful review of the No-Sabbath doctrine as set forth in the Advent Harbinger by O. R. L. Crozier. It should be placed in the hands of those who are exposed to that heresy.---Price 5 cents.
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The Truth Found—A short argument for the Sabbath. Price 5 cents.
Who Changed the Sabbath?---$1,00 per 100.
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Home Here and Home in Heaven, with other poems. The work embraces all those sweet and Scriptural poems written by Annie R. Smith, from the time she embraced the third message till she fell asleep in Jesus.---Price 25 cents. In paper covers, 50 cents.
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