“ An air of reverential awe reigns this day o'er the spacious world, and all nature seems to assist in the grand solemnity. The flowing tresses of the beautiful Aurora, scarce waves in golden ringlets o’er the dappled east, when the early lark in notes far sweeter than his usual lay, ushers in the sacred morn, while all the sweet harmonious feathered tribe, in various plumage drest, that keenly perches on each lofty tree, or wings their way thro' fields of trackless air, join in the general concert to warble forth the praises of their Maker, and the world’s great Lord. ”

“ Ah! in what a trembling situation will the wretched miserable sinner then appear, who has spent his life in all kinds of debaucheries, and has not before death repented of his folly, when he beholds in flaming glory, attended with all the glorious host of heaven, the radient face of his offended Saviour, the omnipotent Judge of all the earth, descending in the clouds, to take vengeance on a guilty world, attended with ten thousand thousand myriads of saints and angels in his train. ”

“ In that day, shall the glorious Maker of heaven and earth, arrest the rapid motion of our rolling sphere, and stop the career of the glorious sun in the firmament, that splendid luminary that glads all nature with his cheering rays; the silver moon, that lucid orb, that supplies the absence of the distant sun, and gilds the horrors of the raven-colour'd night, shall no more move round her axis, no more observe her periodical revolutions, her blunted changes nor her blazing fulls ”

“ There sits the supreme Deity enthron'd in flaming glory, at whose efulgent presence, the splendid rays of ten thousand suns would dwindle into nothing. There reigns an eternal spring; there is no night there, and a verdure unfading, crowns the celestial plains. There the flowers forever bloom, and diffuse immortal fragrance through all the bowers of everlasting bliss. There grows the tree of life, whose grateful fruit pregnant with nectarean juice, makes those who eat to hunger no more. ”

“ Noble examples, and solely design’d by God to instruct and teach mankind to shun the direful road of vice, and tread the golden paths of virtue, whose flowery walks lead after death to the mansions of eternal bliss. ”

“ Oh! how I shrink back and shudder at the thought, nature recoils and chills the blood in every vein; but still there is hope on this side death, a lasting hope which dawns eternal day; for the blood of the immortal Jesus, through a sincere repentance, can wash from every sin. ”

“ What are all the fleeting pleasures of this transitory world, compared to an everlasting happiness in the next? Is it possible then, that man, who is a rational being, And possessed of an immortal and never-dying soul, should so far forego his interest in an eternal world, as to place all his happiness in this. ”

“ The leafy woods, the hollow rocks and plains, the fragrant bowers, whose grateful odours breath ambrosial sweets, and blooming groves of sweet enamel'd flowers in each fair garden, rings with the joyful song, till heaven’s high arch reverberates the sound. The neighing horse, the lowing ox, and all the numerous quadruped creation that sport along the enamel'd plains, or savage rove through distant wilds, assumes this day an air of gravity. ”

“ O! that divine contemplation in all her rich attire, would take full possession of the heart of every mortal while here in this world, and instil in their minds the continual thoughts of a future state; the heaven they have to enjoy, and the hell they have to escape. ”

“ Live therefore in this world, so as you may obtain an eternal happiness in the next, and if thou hast done evil, do so no more; for what doth the Lord require of thee, O man, but to do justly, and love mercy, and to humble themself to walk with thy God, (by keeping his commandments) , for thou may believe it, if thou breakest off thy sins by a sincere repentance, and fly to, and believe on the ever-blessed Jesus, he will have mercy upon you, and receive you, as he hath promised, into his everlasting kingdom. ”

“ Can the sounding titles of a high birth, the airy grandures of a court, the numerous retinue of a gilded chariot, or all the flattering pageantries of state, which often vanish e'er yet half enjoy!d, have so deep an impression on the mind of man as to render him altogether incapable of the sweet contemplations of a never ending felicity. If so, it were better we had never existed nor wak'd to life in this world. If all our happiness is placed here, and after death no prospect but to cxchange our darling pleasures and our short liv'd joys in this world, for eternal horror in the next. ”

“ The glorious sun from the golden chambers of the flaming east, will one day arise and dart forth his chearing beams on thee, but never to set on thee again: and one evening he will withdraw his parting rays from thee never to rise on thee again. I tell you there will come a morning, when you shall never see an evening, and an evening when you shall never see a morning. These things you may believe are no fictious nor vain imaginations of visionary brains, but all sad realities. ”

“ There is a certain pleasure arises in the mind of man from the strict observance of this most holy day, that all the wild variety of forbidden pleasure the world can afford, cannot equal, in six days the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day, wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. ”

“ The almighty and everlasting Being, from his infinite goodness and mercy, has thought proper to give thee six days to labour in, and reserv'd only one day for himself; and will we puny mortals, beings of a day, dare to put the Almighty to defiance, and rob him of that too. ”

“ The inexpressible pleasure, which a truly religious man enjoys in the strict performance of his duty to God, (as far as in him lies,) so far out ballances the sensual pleasures of this life, that a drop of rain to the spacious ocean, is no comparison. And the great duty of remembering the Sabbath-day to keep it holy, is certainly productive of every good ”

“ Thus the irrational creation outvies man in his duty this day, and slrictly observes the laws imposed upon them by their great Creator; nor since the day the great JEHOVAH made this spacious world and hung it in the air, did ever any yet of all the fair creation on earth, in air or sea, except rebellious man disobey the mandate of the everlasting Deity, or deviate from their first estate? No 'tis only man that breaks his Lord's commands ”