| From the Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N. C.) |
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| June 17, 1861 |
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| Sunday Travelling |
| Are we witnesses against ourselves? Just
at this moment, saint and sinner almost to the last man throughout
this part of the country, freely admit that God is helping us against
our enemies -- is shielding our heads in the day of battle. And yet we
heard the rumbling train running on the Western road {The
Western North Carolina RR} yesterday -- the
Sabbath. It may have been right -- possibly it was -- but those
who acknowledge God and their dependence on Him, and desire His
continued favor, are required to remember the conditions upon which it
is promised; and also the consequences of daring presumption. Sunday
work don't often pay. There is a gentleman in this town who once saved
five or then thousand brick from a Sunday afternoon storm, as he
thought; but another storm, the next day, swept them off for him with
compound interest. Since then, he has never stacked a brick on Sunday,
satisfied that Sunday work don't pay. It is not reasonable that
it should. |
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