Thedaughters of l'elias made miuce^meal of their father, and put him into a^kettle, id order to boil the old man to a^jelly and so bring him out again in the^freshness of youth, tender as a baby and
tulioni;fundamentally bo, with roe pout^to tla family; the moral system of the^New 'lestainent; and the respect due to
thaHiblo and the tlrst day of the week.^We take it, the Christian day of rest is^not honored by our laws as a religious,^but only as a civil ordinance, miaeful to^religion Mid morality, and on this^ground only to be enforced upon thus*^who violate the peace by profaning its^civil sanctity and the rights of the peo^^ple at large toenjoy it, in different ways,^as a day for the cessation .' labor and^of the distracting duties of the work. It^is noteworth, that even in Krance, this^i.ion ia tsking root; and ordinances^favoring the better obaervance of Hun-^days hava received the voles of pro^^fessed atheists and other mtldels. They^nave eloquently supported the bills on^two grounds, vi*., (I) that suoh obser-^vonoes have promoted the welfare of^peoples thut have maintained them; and^i'.'I thut as one duy must be selected,^common sense would dictate the preser^^vation of the day which is identified^with our civilization, and for different^reasons, aooepted by the population in^general.
