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The Sabbath

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The zeal which claps n prison a poor "Comeouter" for Mteemiog all days alike, and which runs a lïït : ste-im cars. and lays n laboo upon Sunday marl bags, may or may nnt be according to knowledge. - We venture no opinión in respect to it, but would simplv suggest, with th deferente befitling ono of the laity, that itsnttention might be very profitnbly lurned to some recent trannutiona of our Christian armv and navy, engnged in opening the way for the intrnduction of the Gospel in'o Mexico. If our Almanac does nol deceive us, our navy spent a Sabbnih at Tnbasco some monlhsago, and performed "services" of an impressive but somewhat equivocal kind, sending messengors of ppace and good will among the poor, benighted Catholics, in the shnpe of red hot balls nnd shells. More reeently, Gen. Scott has 'kept the S,.bbtli" cm tlic lie:ghts of Cerro Gordo, storming baiteries, blowing whole squadrons into elernity, impaling men on bayonets, and tearing off their limbs with cannon shot. - We should likfi to know what General Asiemblips and Conferences think of this way of spending holy time. The occnliinns referred to were doubtles solenin enough to satisfy a Purilan tythingman - as much sn, in short, os dying groans and ghastly cotpses could make them. - Bu, apart from this, we cannot see thal the storming of forts, and slaughter of women and children on their own hearths, or wliile kneeling in their places of worhip, ís a more appropriute Sundny ness than the running of the United States mail or the delving of a Seventh-Dny

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Signal of Liberty
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