The New York herald., 1874-12-14
aay or resr, wn,cu essential for his mental rem.

wiloerforce said OF him, "Poor Castlereaah, this
Is the result OF non-obedience 10 Gods ordinance
OF the sabbath" Everything In man-his muscles,
his mino, his whole nature-requres II. And
what Is true OF man Is true also OF the brute
creation. The traveller who allows rest TO his
horse makes more real progress than ne VINO does
not consider this necessary law OF the Creator
Sheep and cattle that are sent IN droves
cannot get on without o rest, and those
whose drovers remember the Sabbath Res
nrst to the seaboard. 1t Is known BY
the fishermen OF Newfoundland that those among
them who make the best haul OF nsn are those
who rest on the Sabbath day. He had even been
told by a railway engineer that locomotives re-
quire 10 be allowed to cool one day In seven and
thus, as Law Of the God OF Nature, II was shown
to be necessary that the Sabbath should be OBJ
served Intelligent man. dumb beasts and dead
machinery alike proclaim 1t TO be necessary; but
in this state and In these cities there is attempt
to kill 1t. 1t Is either to be respectfully drowned
by being Hooded with secular amusements, which
possess every type OF worldings and the worst
weekday pleasures OF mankind, or 1t Is TO be
BURIED DEcENTLY
TO the sound OF brazen music and the chorus OF
enraptured audiences. At the present moment Ia
this great country there are tens OF thousands OF
people who are attempting to cut out the ne OF
the sabbath and TO leave IL bleeding We don't
want, as Christian men and women, to be aroused
after the citadel is taken nor to enumerate New
York, although the last found, among the cities
that have perished. We received our ptety and
our sabbath from previous generations, which
gave us the heritage OF our institutions. shall we
pass them on to our descendants, the Sabbath
with our laws and our institutions, or shall We
give them up' God helping u.s. We win pass them
upnoldinr that sacred institution, and on the
ments-nrss. because they war upon divine en-
acrment and against the VIII OF that holy One,
who has said that man shall not do hts own pleas
ure on the Lords Day. The sensual and worldly
man has no dread nor appreciation OF the
low and the fowl hides itself under Its own wing
when II feels Its sensation, and, although the
win not remember Gods decree to keep holy the
Sabbath Day.
their sunday entertain ments and see how God is
regarded. He Will not be desptsed nor ignored
d1 HIS holy M day but perhaps sna se
mental songs, trapeze, dancing and frivory He
is not forgotten; that 1t is holy dance and q
CoNsECRATED TIGHT ROPE.
Is God TO be pushed out OF HIS rights ana have no
oi heaven and earth against the wrongs done to
Hnmy You cannOs put God on trial, Tor Hts court
Is us we 10
never WI, and the the people nave no rights but
tertainment opened upon His day, winch is the
most ntgn-nanded larceny ever hearo Of
When O crew had been discharged ana new
hands were being taken on an old sailor asked
the captain II he should be required to work on q
yoa Would % rob DC Coo oe you o Would % ROB me and and re-
fused to go to such an employment. II is indeed
thereby rob God. Would any OF you, having given
your children SIX oranges be confented that they
so S gsen or s sooqs %
would you be contented that the man should 20
behind your counter and steal another The
serves one for himself. But this movement OF
Sabbath amusemenrs is war on the statutes OF the
state.
Dr.. Talmage then quoted the words OF the
statute in reference TO Sunday prohibition OF
ne said-Is Il not an insult to you who made this
law at the ballot boxes that II should be wluly
theatre Judge Donohue issued an injunc.
tion-which the reverend preacher also read at
ANN Ge 70 Teran al diSe1
entertainment on Sundays, or from arresting any
one one concerned N providing them for the public
honorcd over the city, aud IT could not have been
necessary that the la OF God and the law Of the
junction was lifted, and 1t was then SHOWN what
the Legislature had right TO say. and mad really
FOREIGN WAR.
II the news OF foreign war reached US by
os Ship Of
brought out and every gun brought into requisl-
oaY Ano yet tns s an s Taefe are
but the lawless people who come from other
shores TO these bring with them this sabbath
dissertation. Do the people oil this country want
such an INVASION Do the people OF New Eng
lano, those who have lived under the Adlrondacks
% people pie nA rom tennessee or Ohio asI' saw don't
bring your Spanish, French. Italian or German
SABBATH into this country. We want none OF them,
for we love and VIII preserve our Christian con.
secrated American Sabbath.
Twas once In Paris as an observer ana saw and
Il /
noises In the street than usual, and was told 1t
was sunday Noises musical unmusical and bOis.
ferrous were perceptlble all day; parrots pedlers,
Punch and judy shows and audiences were 10 be
found IN the streets all day, and in the evening
and all the vilest places open. l saw the men,
women and cnlloren returning from as endless ex-
seemed to me like an elephant Fourth Of July
Compare such a day as this with such an American
solemn silence iu the morning, the ous. ISL
ness man talking to his children OF sacred
re aS ga cSee or ne net eas
iulness for what God has given them; but the
streets are silent, and there Is rest Tor body and
soul, and the soul needs 1t ennrely, and they are
all turned out in the morning ten years younger.
Which picture do you like best-the foreign Sab
bath or the American one And can tell you IN
what boat came and in what boat the otner
VIII take 1t away. The American sunday came in
the Maynower, ana II 1t should ever happen that
she leaves us 1t viii be in an ARK noat-
ing over q deln2e OF lniquity. Again, this
us b State o. eu Of res
will not speak OF the first class actors but let us
think OF the scene-sh,fters, the supers and the
call boys, and the inferior actors who have TO
take parts, those who have to go home after
twelve O'Clock at night regularly, tired, to gar
rets-and you want to take away from them one
day OF rest! Is 1t thus that the
CRUSHING JUGGERNAUT OF PLEASURE
Is to pass over the bodies and souls OF those who
serve It's vOtariesf Can II not stop for one dayY
In the next place ! object TO this unthnking
Sunday dissertation because II IS q war on the
spiritual welfare OF the people. How do theatres
give culture to the souY once knew a lady who
sang IN theatre "Rock OF Ages, Cleft for Me" but
| cannot help thinking that the idea Of beng born
again would not accord with the music Of the
'Grand Duchess" Ought not In fatr play, II such
entertainments 60 on AL the week. Christian min
listers 10 have one day to do their imperish-
able soul work There was once jewel which,
being OF great value and In the hands OF ono who
could compare such things. had In 1t three
stones-a carnelian, an amethyst aud diamond,
and the carneIan was interpreted as the body.