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THE SABBATH DAY

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 36.

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THE SABBATH DAY.

In the Liberator of April, 1831, was published from the pen of Wm. L. Garrison, the following sonnet on the "Sabbath Day."
FAINT prototype of Heaven, blest Sabbath day! Emblem of an eternal rest to come, Emancipator from vile Mammon's sway, At whose approach a noisy world is dumb; Unerring regulator, sacred pledge; Best friend and soother of the poor and weak A resting place in our drear pilgrimage, Where soul and body may refreshment seek. If thou wert blotted out, our moral sun, The huge eclipse would dress the world in gloom; Confusion dire would seize on every one, And peace, love, order, find a hasty tomb. Then would oppression reign, then lust rebel, Then violence abound, and earth resemble hell!