The Litchfield County Post

"A GOOD EXAMPLE.---The public houses in New-Bedford, Mass. were all closed on Sunday, 21st ult. The determination not to open a bar on the Sabbath, originated with Col. Nelson, who carried it into effect at his hotel several weeks since. We hope the invalid and the traveller will not suffer in consequence.--- It is an excellent resolution, and if generally adopted through the country, would produce very beneficial results."..-N. Y. Morn. Courier.

This is by no means a rare example of the proper observance of the Sabbath at large public houses. In Northampton, Mass. the two splendid hotels, kept by Mr. Lyman and Mr. Warner, are both conducted upon strict Christian principles. Every lodging room in each house is furnished with a bible: the bars are not opened on the Sabbath, and all the concerns of the establishment are, on that day, conducted with as much silence and propriety, as in the most orderly private families. A few years since we had occasion to spend the Sabbath at Lyman's Hotel, at which there were many travellers, and some of them among the first men in our country; and so great was the influence, which a good name and a Christian profession exerted over the inmates of the house, that even at the meals a sense of the sacredness of the day appeared to pervade the breast of every individual. There is no difficulty in a tavern-keeper's faithfully observing the Sabbath, if his heart be in the business; no traveller has a right to require any service from him inconsistent with his Christian profession, and but few, (and those of the baser sort,) will have the presumption to do it.