p. 14 | Sabbath Rest

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1866

Sabbath Rest.

WILLIAM PITT died of apoplexy at the early age of 47. When the destinies of nations hung in large measure on his doings, he felt compelled to give an unremitting attention to affairs of State. Sabbath brought no rest to him, and soon the unwilling brain gave signs of exhaustion. But his presence in Parliament was conceived to be indispensable for explanation and defense of the public policy. Under such circumstances, it was his custom to eat heartily of substantial food, most highly seasoned, just before going to his place, in order to afford the body that strength, and to excite the mind to that activity deemed necessary to the momentous occasion. But under the high tension both brain and body perished prematurely.

Not long ago one of the most active business men of England deliberately determined to devote his Sabbaths to his accounts. Wealth came in upon him like a flood. He purchased a country-seat, determining that he would now have rest and quiet. But it was too late. He became apoplectic. Although life was not destroyed, he only lives the wreck of a man.—Hall's Journal.