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Schoolcraft's Testimony as to the benefit of Sabbath Keeping. 



Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi, 

 by Henry Schoolcraft : "No Sabbath day was 

 employed in traveling. It was laid down as a 

 principle to rest on that day, and whenever it 

 overtook us, whether on land or on water, the 

 men knew that their labor would cease, and 

 that the day would be given them for rest. 

 Such of them as felt an inclination, had the 

 further privilege of hearing a portion of the 

 Scriptures read or expounded, or uniting in 

 other devotional rites. There were but a few 

 hours of a single morning and a few hours of a 

 single evening, of separate Sabbaths, at distant 

 points, which were necessarily employed in 

 reaching particular places ; and the use of these 

 appeared to be unavoidable, under the peculiar 

 circumstances of our local position. 



"It may, perhaps, be thought, that the giv- 

 ing up one seventh part of the whole time em- 

 ployed on a public expedition, in a very remote 

 region, and with many men to subsist, must 

 have, in this ratio, increased the time devoted 

 to the route. But the result was far otherwise. 

 The time devoted to recruit the men not only 

 gave the surgeon of the party an opportunity to 

 heal up the bruises and chafings they complain- 



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