Sabbath a blessed Day of Rest. 



corned ? How many of these laborious indivi- 

 duals have no other opportunity of even wit- 

 nessing the presence of the glorious sun of 

 indulging in the absorption of his genial rays 

 of inhaling the pure revivifying air, by the 

 wonted exercise of their limbs of reciprocating 

 in the tender intercourse of children of near 

 and dear relations and friends of participating 

 in the discharge of those natural claims on the 

 heart, and the moderate pleasures to which 

 their virtuous lives so fully entitle them all of 

 which can only be permitted and enjoyed by 

 the return of this all-hallowed and delightful 

 day ! After the prescribed duties of the sabbath 

 are religiously performed, I cannot censure, 

 much less interdict, the application of those few 

 fcootrs of exemption from perpetual toil, to the 

 honest gratification of feelings the birth-right 

 of a free people as commendable in their na- 

 ture as they are worthy of social beings ; whei* 

 partaken with decency, temperance, and mode- 

 ration ; especially by those whose lot, when 

 compared with that of their superiors, commands 

 on this occasion peculiar respect. On the other 

 hand, I cannot approve of the sabbath's being 

 made subservient to pleasures, capable of being 

 equally well pursued on every less exceptiona- 

 ble day in the week. I should do great injustice 

 to my own appreciation of this sacred day, were 



