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 Sabbath in Dartmouth. 
 
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 "Watchman, what of the Night '?'' 
 
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 Sabbath in Dartmouth 
 
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 HALIFAX, N. S. 
 PRINTED BY JAS. BOWES & SONS, BEDFORD ROW. 
 
 1870. 
 
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 [This Poem was originally published in tlic last 
 number of the Halifax " Atii?:n.i^:um," sometime in 
 1856.] 
 
THE 
 
 SABBATH IN DARTMOUTH. 
 
 "VViu. A Man rob GonT—Malachi, in. S. 
 
 Will a man rob God? 
 Astounding question, God Himself propounds 
 To sorcerers, idolaters, and them, 
 The perjur'd and oppressing, -vvho forget 
 Jehovah, and what He ordains ; Avould not 
 His chosen people Levi's sons, the priests — 
 Jerusalem and Judah — privileged above 
 All other nations — be annoyed, and ask 
 With awe and trembling, what could be implied 
 In the announcement by the prophet made ? 
 
 Some imperfections of a venial kind 
 They might admit amongst them could be found 
 But to commit a robbery on God ! — oh, no ! 
 The veriest outcast known among the tribes 
 Would hold the thought a horrid sacrilege. 
 
 Will a man rob God? 
 Astounding question ! More astounding still 
 The response God by Malachi proclaims. 
 That it was done ! Not in an instance, like 
 The tempting garment, and the wedge of gold 
 That Achan erst had privately purloin'd ; 
 But the whole nation, — priests and people both, 
 Did not remember, or did not observe 
 The tithes and off'rings God of them required, 
 And made themselves obnoxious to His curse. 
 
 
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 Will u man rob God ? 
 What answer would the Pharisee return 
 If the demand had been address'd to him ? 
 Would he not look with a contemptuous eye 
 Or point his finger to some distant spot 
 Where, whom he counted sinners were convened 
 And with a bosom full of legal pride 
 Pour out a panegyric on his sect, 
 Or haply on himself; and tiiank his (iod 
 That /ie was not like other men? — and tho' 
 The charge might to the Publicans be laid, 
 Yet unto him that tith'd, cummin and mint, 
 A Pharisee that fasted tu ice a week : 
 There was pollution in the bare idea. 
 
 Will a man rob God ? 
 Can it be believed that christians read 
 This interrogatory day by day, 
 And unamazed peruse the response made 
 That God's own people are the guilty ones. 
 And in His temple where Shechinah shouc, 
 (O sacrilege extreme !)before Ilis face 
 They made themselves abhorrent unto Him? 
 
 Pause for a moment o'er this awful crime — 
 A finite mind can have but faint idea 
 Of its exceeding sinfulness with God 
 But call imagination to your aid. 
 And look again on that pathetic scene 
 Wer e the Redeemer saw Jerusalem — 
 Saw it and wept ;— ah ! why did Jesus weep ? 
 Alas ! alas ! Jerusalem, for thee — 
 His sweat. His groans, His agony and death 
 Could bring salvation to a guilty world ; 
 But His — the Saviour's, the Messiah's — tears 
 Could not avail to mitigate thy doom ! 
 
Will a man rob God? 
 Yos, mca <lo rob Him ev'ti in <^os|)t'l times, 
 And in this a^re of colleges and schools — 
 Tiiis a;^e of missions a'ld the means ot ;rrace — 
 This n<i;c of l)ibles and benevolence — 
 This ajxe (if chnrches and of christian zoal ; — 
 And in this land, as sure as Sabbath comes, 
 Not only scoffers and unj^odly men, 
 Hut ev'u professors rob Almiij^hty God I 
 
 'Tis Sabbath morninir. On his bended knees, 
 But with a heart o'erflowing with deliu:ht. 
 The humble saint has audience of his God ! 
 Not so the fool of fashion is employ 'd : 
 He pants for pleasure in another form — 
 A walk, a visit, promises delight — 
 Or some affairs that might be well deferreil ; 
 Perhaj)s a party occupies his mind, 
 (If any vestige of a mind outlive 
 The bloated ruins of a human shape. 
 Made almost too disgusting for the worms.) 
 
 Day after day the system is pursued. 
 Sometimes a part, and frequently the whole 
 Of what to God belongs, — not only worship, 
 Glory, honor, praise, and adoration. 
 The homage of the heart, and love supreme, 
 But what he counts peculiarly a sin, — 
 That day he sanctified and set apart, 
 By precept and example sacred made, 
 And consecrated for the noblest ends — 
 For blessing and salvation to mankind — 
 A day emphatically called the Lord's, 
 Is, notwithstanding God's express commands, 
 lu cv'ry way most publicly profau'd. 
 
 'Tis Sabbath morning. Winter reigns around ; 
 
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 Tlic bell makes known timt it is ten o'clock ; — 
 
 Who would believe it the cliiircli-jroin'? bell 
 
 Tlint sits beside llie writer, and looks out 
 
 Upon tlie various streets, some five in number. 
 
 From his sanctum seen, and just as many dens 
 
 "Where, if ^rog is not sold it can be had. — 
 
 Beside an icy pond, a baflling scene 
 
 For such a pen as mine — (perhaf)s beyond 
 
 The hand that Milton's pandemonium drew) 
 
 Where children of all a<:es and all creeds — 
 
 Or nearly 'dl, and some with none, or less. 
 
 If less can be ; in all particulars minute. 
 
 Action an«l languajre corresponding well: 
 
 A panorama of perdition shows 
 
 From earliest dawn unto the noon of niirht. 
 
 With none to question or to criticise 
 
 How they perform ; alas for them ! alas ! 
 
 All of them seem of guardianship bereft — 
 
 No parent with authority is there 
 
 To punish, or reclaim ; no pastor's voice 
 
 Among them to restrain ; no pitying eye 
 
 Nor yearning heart, — not ev'n a mother's love — 
 
 Undying, to a p^ erb, but not there — 
 
 Is either heard or seen. 
 
 Of these is not my verse. 
 Sad as it is ! — a sadder one I'll show 
 To the spectator, men and women both, 
 Whom God hath spared week after week, — 
 Nor only spared, but with abundance bless'd — 
 Bless'd them with health and strength, some doubly 
 
 bless'd 
 With happy families, and familiar friends, 
 And wh * of earthly good an honest heart 
 Might well suflice ; but come behold them now ! 
 
In ev'ry street a various <rrotip appears, 
 Various in innnbcrs and of various age ; 
 More various still the prof^ress tlicy attain, 
 As caste with rnste co-minf^le jostlinfj on. 
 Both old and young seem equally in haste, 
 To get as far as possible from God. 
 
 There are exceptions ; but the gen'ral rule 
 Is first the tandem with the double sleigh — 
 My fingers quiver and refuse to hold 
 The pen that would the living freight describe. 
 Or draw the portrait of the charioteer, — 
 He bears the name of father to them all. 
 And should have borne the name of priest beside. 
 How beautiful upon the Sabbath day. 
 To lead that lovely flock of little souls 
 
 ') to the house where God delights to dwell. 
 And say to Ilim in whom we live and move 
 An<l have our being, " Father, he am I; 
 And these are they whom Thou hast given to me ; 
 O keep them thro' Thy truth, that none be lost !" 
 
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 But wljy not go alone 
 To serve the devil, if he so inclines? 
 The sin at least less heinous would appear — 
 Though heinous even then, but how much more 
 The heinousness, the cruelty refined, 
 Of him, the God-appointed earthly guide, 
 And houor'd guardian of i mortal souls, 
 Seduced from his allegiance unto heaven, 
 And now seducing on the Sabbath day 
 (As if to make the sin more heinous still) 
 His sacred charge ; and virtually scoffs 
 At the denouncement by the Saviour made 
 Against the infidels who would dare offend 
 
 
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 The little ones. And oh ! how terrible — 
 Tho' for a season it may be delayM — 
 The[doom at last, — the dreadful doom will fall 
 Upon the christian infidel who bears 
 The name of parent, and is guilty found 
 Of wilfully perverting God's command ! 
 
 The next in order is the dashing sleigh. 
 Exactly fitted to some promis'd pair. 
 All else on earth excluded but themselves. 
 It seems a plaything to the spriirhtly horse. 
 With bells and ribbons gaudily attired. 
 And rushing onward at its utmost speed — 
 However willing, urg'd on faster still. 
 That they may boast how swiftly space is passed 
 Between the steamboat and the nearest inn 
 O ! would to God it were their farthest stage 
 Upon a journey where a single step 
 Is one too many. Who can prophesy. 
 When they return — if ever they return — 
 What will be their latitude from heaven? 
 Or how much happier at the evening's close 
 If both had sought the blessedness that's found 
 Where saints assemble on the Sabbath day, 
 To worship God in spirit and in truth. 
 
 The inn is reached. ' 
 
 Well, what is there they could not find at home ? 
 Inn-keepers are a class I censure not ; 
 Oft in society an useful branch ; 
 Their avocation is an irksome one. 
 And many of them both deserve and share 
 The public countenance. There ought to be, 
 And is a law, that does prescribe the sphere 
 Wherein they are to move : — the law is plain 
 
That makes their duty known ; it docs not read, 
 Nor can it be construed, to mean that they 
 Or their doniestics shoukl be kept at home 
 And desecrate the Sabbatli, to attend 
 On such as glory in what is their shame — 
 On idlers, and presumptuous sinners, who 
 Contemn the merciful provision made, 
 In God's unbounded mercy to mankind. 
 
 In ancient times the prophet IIosea said 
 (The Holy Spirit taught him what to say) 
 That God a thing most horrible had seen 
 In Israel. Oh, could the thing he saw 
 Be equal this that ev'ry Sabbath day 
 Is seen, — and counted in this christian laud — 
 In Nova Scotia, as a famous deed, 
 To break a table of His holy law, 
 And trample on the ordinance He made. 
 
 I loathe my theme ; 
 But yet there is a class that I must note — 
 What I have written is to Avash my hands, 
 (The egotist forgive) in my own verse. 
 Of the contumely on the Sabbath cast 
 By those who would aristocrats be held — 
 And what is call'd the fashionable world. 
 "Who would imagine such a damning clause 
 Even into fashion would admittance find, 
 Or when it did that it should compreheud 
 All classes of society ? The rich alone 
 To be a sacrifice is not enoujjh : 'i ' 
 
 But even the poorest of the very poor — 
 The more immediate wards of heaven's great care 
 Must join in the rebellion against Him 
 That ev'ry day their daily bread bestows, . - ; ■ 
 
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 And every day their daily grace besides, — 
 How oft unasked it is not mine to tell, 
 Nor yet how little it may be deserv'd. 
 Nor yet how little it does them restrain. 
 Nor yet how very little it is priz'd. 
 
 How my heart sickens with the very thought 
 That truth demands the poor should not escape 
 The censure that I breathe ; O, could I write 
 To burn instead of breathe — burn into them 
 That read my verse, or overhear by chance, 
 The notoriety they have obtaiu'd. 
 
 What can the poor man promise to himself 
 For his defections? Has he aught to gain 
 Here or hereafter for his gross neglect ? 
 Neglect ? — nay, but his insult to the Lord, 
 The Bountiful — Benevolent — Supreme ; 
 The Giver of all good ; and given free — 
 Free as the water from the fountain Hows, 
 And as the air he ev'ry moment breathes ; 
 None to demand equivalent from him. 
 Or semblance of a sacrifice require 
 For all the blessip-'s heaven upon him sheds ; 
 Yet he against his Maker lifts his heel, 
 And seeks to find au idol of his own. 
 
 The rich may show 
 Some color for the course that they pursue, 
 And may impose upon themselves awhile. 
 However thin the vail that wraps them round. 
 They plead the fash'on, and they have their wealth 
 Though surely not bestow'd to make them sin ; 
 They have their horses, and the horses must 
 Have exercise ; — still more, there is the sleigh, 
 Perhaps new painted, and new clad in fur: 
 
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 It should be used now, while the winter lasts ; 
 
 The counter or the office, week by week, 
 
 Keeps them eniploy'd ; or some of them have friends 
 
 That of slein;h-ridin*^ are exceeding fond ; 
 
 Some more have families shut up at home 
 
 Not voluntary captives, hence they should 
 
 Have some indulgence. Arguments likes these 
 
 Repeated o'er and o'er become at last 
 
 Specious enough to justify themselves, 
 
 And their excursions worthy of such place 
 
 As meritorious pilgrimages hold 
 
 Among the legends of departed saints, 
 
 And yield a most unanswerable plea 
 
 Unto the would-be and to the almost 
 
 A-christian, that it is no sin at all 
 
 To break the barriers round the Sabbath set, 
 
 But rather to be justified ; whilst they 
 
 Waste, often prodigally, waste their time. 
 
 And then a false necessity pretend, 
 
 To rob Jehovah of his hallow'd day. 
 
 This is the language gentlemen employ; 
 Nor such the sons of poverty can plead ; 
 It might be thought they would with rapture hail 
 A day of rest, as unto them at least 
 A special kindness ; — they cannot complain 
 That riches make them wretched, naught that may 
 Blot from their mem'r that emphatic word 
 *' Remember," — not in vain prefix'd for man — 
 For ev'ry man, and ev'rywhere prefixed — 
 Most solemnly prefix'd, to God's commaud, 
 And never can admit of an excuse 
 Or palliation, when it is preferr'd 
 In their behalf, — can truthfully be said. 
 
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 They surely will not urge 
 That Snhbath clays are useless unto them — 
 Even should they argue the command is void 
 (Some do contend that it is obsolete, 
 Forgetting that when the Messiah came 
 It was not to destroy, but to fulfil 
 The law — the moral, universal law ;) 
 Not one will say he has no need of rest. 
 Nor that his soul, in walking up and down, 
 Or loit'ring idly at some neighbor's door. 
 Or list'ning to some noisy tavern's brawl, 
 (We take for granted that he does abstain, 
 Although the doubts against him may be strong) 
 Is better nourish'd than it would have been 
 Waiting on God, within His house of pray'r, 
 And Avelcoming glad tidings of great joy. 
 
 Unto the over-curious who enquire, 
 What have they doneV or whither are they bound? 
 That give occasion unto this tirade — 
 I answer brieflv, that it is not mine 
 To hunt up evidence that might increase 
 What unto me already is too large ; 
 Hand join'd in hand will not the guilty save, 
 Nor better qualify the pen I hold 
 In writing evil open to the world. 
 
 I have not follow'd, nor do I intend 
 To follow where they lead, whether it be 
 The Eastern Passage, or Cole Harbor road, 
 Or that along the sea to Lawrencetown, 
 Or thro' the lovely landscape Preston boasts — 
 Including the serenity that lake ; > : . 
 
 And river can supply — much less the way — '■.■'. j 
 None of the narrowest that destruction owns — 
 To Cobequid ; euphonious tho' it sound, 
 
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 And one time famous — famous even now, 
 More famous still it must be, by-and-by, 
 For an a' ortion of the Province brains, 
 When ou'.' assembled wisdom sponsors stood ; 
 (The name on it judiciously conferr'd — 
 A name that cost one hundred thousand pounds, 
 '' The Slough of Despond " furnished rea(?y riade) 
 Makes known the learning in our fathers stor'd, 
 How apposite shareholders best can tell. 
 
 'Tis not canals. 
 But broken vSabbaths constitute my theme— 
 A theme to me far from poetic found, 
 And grating harshly on a tuneful ear. 
 More harshly still upon a christian heart ; 
 Less inspiration than regret is felt. 
 In the construction of this rugged lay. 
 
 Brimful of spleen, and idle too, Avithal, 
 Must be the critic who would my verse assail. 
 Most uninviting has the subject been ; 
 And more of conscience than of skill display'd. 
 Where honest syllables have been preferr'd 
 To those that speak in questionable tones, 
 Reck'ning not little on the halting lines, 
 And uncouth phrases that have been employ'd 
 Among the sceptics audience to obtain. 
 
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 EVENING MELODY. 
 
 The following beautiful lines were pul)lished in a la^e 
 ^^Ouardian." A» many of our readers may not have seen 
 them, we transfer Uieni to our columns :— "Sun."' 
 
 Father of mercies, now 
 
 Another day is past, 
 And at thy footstood I would bow 
 To render thanks to thee, O Thou 
 
 Almighty first and last I 
 
 Whilst all the angelic throng 
 
 Unite in hymns above, 
 My voice thy praises shall prolong ; 
 Th_,' jrlor)'^ and thy power their song. 
 
 But mine thy grace and love. 
 
 Hosannahs to thy name 
 
 The Cherubim address ; 
 Kindle in me a kindred flame, 
 That I may sing a seraph's theme, 
 
 Although my love be less. 
 
 Melodious to my soul, 
 
 Thy praise flows from the sea — 
 Syrtems and suns thy might extol, 
 And farther than the farthest pole 
 
 Creation worships thee. 
 
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 Lost in immcQsity — 
 
 Return my thoughts — return ; 
 Shall lips unclean presume to vie 
 With stars of immortality 
 
 That round Jehovah burn ? 
 
 Nigher to thee, i.iy God, 
 
 O bid be nigher come ! 
 Direct me in the heavenly road 
 That leadeth up to thine abode — 
 
 The ransom'd sinner's home. 
 
 Give me a cheerful heart 
 Though sufF'ring earthly loss ; 
 And still thy grace to me impart 
 When nature faints beneath the smart 
 Inflicted by the Cross. 
 
 Sins now by me forgot, 
 
 But not to thee unknown, 
 And in thy book against me wrote. 
 O let the blood of Jesus blot, 
 
 And make me all thine own. 
 
 O leave me not the prey 
 
 Of fascinations vain ; 
 But in thy good and perfect way, 
 My God ! my Father ! keep me aye, 
 
 For Jesus' sake. — Amen. 
 
 Albtn. 
 Manor-hill, 1846. 
 
 
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