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The pearl of days

Chapter 10: NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
By Barbara H. Farquhar
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The essay argues that faithful Sabbath observance brings practical advantages to working families by encouraging moral discipline, domestic order, education, and community stability. It combines reasoned argument with illustrative autobiography to show how weekly rest and religious practice shape character, industry, and parental guidance across generations. Prefatory remarks address parents, social reformers, and laboring people, framing the sacred day as a means of individual improvement and social progress rather than merely a ritual duty. The tone mixes devotional conviction with social commentary to present the Sabbath as both a spiritual benefit and a foundation for practical well-being.

HEAVEN’S ANTIDOTE
TO THE
CURSE OF LABOR:

Or the Temporal Advantages of the Sabbath to the Working Classes.

BY JOHN ALLAN QUINTON.

With a Prefatory Notice by Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, D.D.

This beautiful Essay on the Sabbath, from the pen of a journeyman printer, of Ipswich, England, received the first prize which was offered by Mr. Henderson, of Glasgow, for essays on that subject by working men. The fact that it was selected for the first prize, out of 1045 compositions, must be sufficient proof of its merit. The American edition contains a very interesting preface by Dr. Tyng. It is illustrated, neatly bound in cloth, and is sold for 37¹⁄₂ cents.

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

“It is a manly, direct, and most conclusive presentation of the temporal benefits of observing the Sabbath, which we should suppose no one could peruse without a definite impression. It should especially reach laboring men—its strong sense and clear logic are finely suited to make an impression upon the popular mind.”—New York Evangelist.

“The work should be scattered broadcast over the land.”—Protestant Churchman.

“The treatise considers the advantages of the Sabbath under the heads of Physical, Mercantile, Intellectual, Domestic, Moral, and Religious. The author does not write theoretically, but from personal experience; and no working man can read his essay without feeling that the Sabbath is one of the greatest temporal blessings. We trust that the volume will have a wide circulation among all classes in our own country; for all need its salutary counsels. It is written in a very attractive style, and neatly printed.”—Independent.

“This is a strong, clear, and admirable essay on the Temporal Advantages of the Sabbath, considered in relation to the working classes.”—Courier and Enquirer.

JUST PUBLISHED BY
S. HUESTON, 138 NASSAU-ST., NEW YORK.