holy day, and to rob the world of its inestimable benefits. Is that right? Will it, in the end, be profitable? Will it yield you consolation in the hour of death, and will the reward be such as will cheer and comfort you in eternity? Remember, that as a man soweth, so shall he reap. The breaking down of the Sabbath, or the devoting of it to worldly concerns, tends to undermine the moral government of God, and is clothed with the guilt of treason against the Most High.

Nor is it certain, that, without letting your horses on the Sabbath, you cannot maintain your business. A man who had kept a stable, said, “I had let horses on the Sabbath for a number of years. I thought that, if I should not do so, I could not sustain myself, and yet I knew that it was wrong. The thought one day occurred, God has been very kind to you; he has long been doing you good, and for you to be so regardless of his commands as to continue openly to violate his Sabbath, and exert an influence calculated to banish it from the world, is ungrateful. It is wicked. Besides, God has taken care of your family, while you have been openly rebelling against him; and, should you turn about, and obey his commands, is it not likely that he will provide for them still? So I resolved to try. I had advertisements struck off and posted up, saying that my stable would not be opened on the Sabbath. At first, some fell off, but others liked it. I began to fill up; and my business, on the whole, was quite as profitable as before. One thing was very remarkable. I had been at an expense before, upon an average, for a number of years, of from three to four hundred dollars a year, on account of the lameness and sickness of horses. But afterwards, these expenses were not ten dollars a year." Men who will break the Sabbath will kill horses. They are reckless, as well as vicious; and many a time, the injury done to horses is far greater

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than the profits of letting them on the Sabbath. It might not be so in all cases. But, whether it would be or not, if men cannot keep a livery stable without the open and habitual violation of the Sabbath, let them abandon the business, and follow some more moral, even if it should be a less lucrative employment. It is not "the chief end of man" to make money.

"But other men will let horses on the Sabbath, if I do not." Other men will steal, if you do not; but that is no reason why you should, nor will it screen you from guilt and condemnation if you do.

"But professors of religion come to my stable, and hire horses on the Sabbath; and it is no worse for me to let horses, than it is for them to hire them." That may be. Some professors of religion have forged notes, but that is no reason why you should do so. It was wicked in them to do it, and wicked for any one, in order to get money, knowingly to aid and abet in doing it. It would not shield them, when brought before a court of justice, to say, that the men whom they aided in this matter were professors of religion. No more will it shield those who have aided professors of religion in violating the Sabbath. Each man must answer for his own sins, and cannot shield himself under the sins of others, even though they be professors of religion. And he who aids professedly good men in committing sin, is as really guilty as he who aids notoriously bad men ; and he may do even greater mischief. Sin does not lose its hateful character or mischievous tendency by being committed by professors of religion. Its evils are often greatly increased. If a bad business must be carried on, leave it wholly and exclusively to notoriously bad men, that every child may see at once that it is an immoral employment. Let all good men, all moral men, all decent men, shun it as they would shun the plague. Let no such man ever be seen in

any business on the Sabbath, except such as is required for purposes of necessary mercy and the appropriate duties of that day. Let him never be seen frequenting the livery stable, or riding out, or using beasts of burden in any secular business. Then will the light which is in him not be darkness, tending to bewilder and destroy; but it may shine in such a manner as to lead others to glorify his Father in heaven. "Go not in the way of evil men; pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away." Rest on the Sabbath from worldly business, cares, and amusements, and do what in you lies that the man-servant and the maid-servant, and all classes, especially of laboring people, may rest also.

"But may I not go from the city into the country, or the country into the city, or from one town to another, to spend the Sabbath with my father's family, or the family of a friend, and attend public worship with them?" Certainly you may; but be always careful, in such cases, to go before the Sabbath begins, and not return till after it is ended. Not only the using of horses, but the using of the rail-cars, to go from the city to the country, or from town to town, on the Sabbath, even if the passengers do go to church after they arrive, is a violation of that sacred day, which tends to injure those who are concerned in it, and to injure the public. Be honest towards God, and attempt not, for your profit or pleasure, to rob him of any portion of his day.

"But suppose I am a BUTCHER, and am called to supply my customers with fresh meat for breakfast on Monday morning. May I not kill my cattle and sheep, or dress them, on the Sabbath, that my customers may have it early on Monday morning?" No; not if you would obey God. Better, vastly better, would it be for all your customers, if needful, to go without fresh meat on Monday morning, or be contented with what you can provide for them on

Saturday, rather than that you should kill cattle and sheep, or dress them, on the Sabbath. Let all be contented with cold bread on Monday morning, rather than the BAKER should desecrate the Sabbath to provide them with warm. As for NEWSPAPERS, no man has a right to provide any, or to take any, except such as can be furnished without secular labor on the Sabbath day.

The workmen in printing-offices, bakeries, and butcheries, need the rest and the privileges of the Sabbath, as much as other men. They have as good a right to them. It is their duty, and it would be for their interest, to enjoy them. Employers and customers are all bound so to arrange their affairs that they may; and, instead of hindering, to aid the workmen in all establishments in the enjoyment of the benefits of the Sabbath. And where there is a will,

there is a way. No classes of workmen are under the necessity of losing the benefits of the Sabbath; and none will be found to be innocent, or, in the end, to be gainers, if they continue to consent to do so.

As to ARRANGEMENTS IN FAMILIES, the NAVIGATING OF SHIPS on the ocean, or the conducting of any concerns required by necessary acts of mercy, and by the duties of the Sabbath, or which are permitted by the Sabbath law, no labor should be done except what is needful.

STEAMBOATS Which leave a city in the evening, to arrive at another city in the morning, should, on Saturday, leave in the morning, and arrive in the evening. Families, if they have not in the house all needful supplies, should provide them on Saturday. For Monday morning, they should be contented with what they have, and what can be provided for them before the beginning and after the close of the Sabbath. They should not even covet, or be willing to receive, what cannot be furnished but by the desecra

tion of that day, and by depriving others habitually of its sacred enjoyments.

"But there is one kind of employment," it is said, "in which men must break the Sabbath, namely, the taking of WHAles. The owners give directions to the captains to take whales whenever and wherever they can find them. If captains of whale ships should not follow the directions of owners, they would not be able to obtain employment. Omitting to take whales on the Sabbath would make the voyage one seventh part longer. The crews are absent a long time from their families, and ought to return as soon as they can. They often go for a long time without seeing whales; and, when they do see them, should they not take them, the crews would become uneasy and mutinous. If they do not take whales on the Sabbath, the sailors would be engaged in something worse. The Lord would not suffer them to see whales on the Sabbath, unless he designed that they should take them," etc., etc.

These reasons, and all others, may be set aside by one consideration, namely, "Thus saith the Lord; Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work." But "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; in it thou shalt not do any work." Nor is obedience to this command, in the whaling business, impracticable. A number of captains and crews have tried it. They have taken no whales on the Sabbath, and yet ordinarily have obtained as much oil, and prospered as well, on the whole, as those who have desecrated that day.

Captain Scoresby, of the British navy, who was afterwards commander of a whale ship in the northern seas, tried it for a course of years, and was especially prospered. He states, in his journal, that he does not recollect a case in which they saw whales on the Sabbath, and yet did not attempt to take them, where