NP, CW 6/17/1861

From the Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N. C.)
 
June 17, 1861
  
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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