Leviticus 19:30 You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. Man! Man! This is the great creator of wealth. The difference between the soil of Campauia and Spitzbergcn is insignificant compared with the difference presented by two countries — the one inhabited by men full of moral and physical vigour, the other by beings plunged in an intellectual decrepitude. Hence it is that we are not impoverished, but on the contrary enriched by this seventh day, which we have for so many years devoted to rest. This day is not lost. While the machinery is stopped, while the ear rests on the road, while the treasury is silent, while the smoke ceases to rise from the chimney of the factory, the nation enriches itself none the less than during the working days of the week. Man, the machine of all machines, the one by the side of which all the inventions of the Watts and the Ark. wrights are as nothing, is recuperating and gaining strength so well, that on Monday he returns to his work with his mind clearer, with more courage for his work, and with renewed vigour. I will never believe that that which renders a people stronger, wiser, and better, can ever turn to its impoverishment. Parallel Verses KJV: Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.WEB: "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh. |
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