Working on the Sabbath
By Editor
There are a great many people who profess to keep the sabbath, according to the fourth commandment, but who, some how or other, always find a multitude of "works of necessity" to be attended to. We have seen a capital anecdote, lately, about a family of such people, who were pretty severely rebuked by a colored man in their employ. The family were farmers. One Sabbath morning, the colored man was not up as usual, at breakfast. The son was sent to call him; but Cæsar said they need not wait for him, as he did not wish for any breakfast. "Why, Cæsar," said the young man, "we shall want you, as soon as the dew is off, to help about the hay." "No," said he, "I can't work any more on the Sabbath; it is not right." "Not right?" said the other; "is it not duty to take care of what Providence has given us?" "Oh, there is no necessity for it," said he, "and 'tis wrong to do it." But would you not pull your cow or sheep out of a pit, upon the Sabbath, Cæsar?" "No, not if I had been trying all the week to shove them in: I would let them lie there."