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Visiting iielcls, salting cattle, removing them from one 

 pasture to another, and all kinds of labor, are equally 

 forbidden — " Thou shalt do no work therein^'^ is the com- 

 mand. 



3. It is for the interest^ as well as the duty of husband- 

 men to observe the sabbath^ and keep it holyJ^^ The keep- 

 ing of the sabbath prepares the mind, as well as the 

 body, for the faithful discharge of the duties of the 

 week. The experience also of every one testifies ; that 

 more labor, or business, during the year, may be accom- 

 plished in six days of the week, than in the whole seven. 

 The seventh day is as much designed, and required,ybr 

 rest ; as the night, for sleep. Such is our constitution. 

 On this principle, the Jews were commanded, to let 

 their lands lie uncultivated, every seventh year; and 

 thus keep a sabbath. 



4. JYo design, formed on the sabbath ; or business then 

 done ; ever prospers well This has been the universal 

 testimony of all good men. If any man will look back 

 on his own life, and examine his own thoughts, he will 

 need no further evidence. Breaches of the sabbath 

 have been signally punished, from the days of Elijah, 

 until now. More persons have been drowned, on the 

 sabbath, in New England ; than on all other days of the 

 week. The divine displeasiire has been as strongly ex- 

 pressed, in other ways. 



5. JYothing is ever gained by laboring on the sabbath. 

 Even in harvest, it will be generally, if not always 

 found ; that the succeeding monday, although the sab- 

 bath be fair, is better suited to secure the labors of the 

 preceding, stormy week. 



6. Our cattle, horses, servants, hired men and women, 

 are to rest on the sabbath ; as well as our own families. 



