Egerton Young gives this testimony about Sabbath-keeping by the Indians
of British Columbia:
When our mission was established, all the missionaries went
in for the observance of the Sabbath day. At once there was
opposition from the Hudson Bay Company. They argued, “Our summer
is short, the people have to work in a hurry, and to lose one
day in seven will be a terrible loss to us, and you missionaries
must get out of the country if you are going to interfere with
our business.” There was downright persecution for years,
but there is none now, for it was found that the brigades of
Indians who traveled only six days, and quietly rested on the
Sabbath, made the journey of perhaps fifteen hundred miles,
without a single exception, in less time, and came back in
better health, than those who traveled without observing the
Sabbath.--PIERSON, “The Miracles of Missions.”
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