Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-11-04
From the Interior
H'lkc Sabbath Made for Haar,

hS 'SssDDdkA NhNuc NOR NHcGfl.
In this axiomatio uttcrauce of our Lord
we have truth of deep significance, and
one also of the utmost practical Importance
at tic present time. because the Sabbath
is made for man, and not ma for tho
Sabbath, thousands in our day claim the
liberty of neglccting, disllonoring, pcrycr-
tlng, or subvcrting it, if they choose. No
single saying Of Jesus Christ has ever
been more shamctul!y misin,crprctcd aud
abused, than this law Of the Sabbath has
been by tho abettors Of Sabbath desccra-
ton. Tho Sabbath is Gods grand ordi
nance appointed for the good of man, to be
a day OF rest for his body and his soul
This is its meaning on tho very face Of it
AS understood by our modern Solons of tho
secular press and the bccr-saloon, it means
that man may make The Sabbath either a
day OF work aud business toll or a day of
unrestralncd license and rcvclry in every
species OF amusement and scnsuous .ratiii-
cation. We eau scarcely conceive of any
thing more outrageous and blaaphcmous
than the manner in which this bencfcent
institute Of the Son of God has been taken
up By the recent Sabbath breaker and tl,ir
allies, and made to uphold those assem- nbIac,s
Of tho saloon and the bcc.. garden aud the
dance-house, which have done so much
to obl'terate tho sacred day in all our great
cities, and which arc bcconing moro and
more tho disgrace Of our civilization.
If the Sabbath was made, that is appoin
ted, Tor man, most clearly il was so made
by him who is the Lord of the Sabbath
Jesus Christ the Scn "f God And If it
Was ordained for man and him, then Ger
talnly it is TO DC used by man in the IN.
tcntlon Of its great Founder. II is a sound
maxim, that the design of the Awgiver
.ntcrprcts the law. 1t is to DC used for
the bcnciicent and sacred purposes which
he has designated in his holy word and no,
to be prevented in to day Of toll OH tho
one hand, or the mere pleasure seeking,
riotous living, dcbauchcry, and dyunkcn
ness, on the other. Can any man in his
senses believe that this sacred day was ever
ordained by Christ for tho purpose of
being used as mere holiday Of merry
making, as it is now used in all the great
cities of our land, at the saloons gardens,
pcnics, and Sunday theatres! 1t would
be an insult to any Bible readers
intelligence, and blaspheny against the
Saviour OF the world, TO say tha, he ever
made or could make such Sabbath for
man Yet this precisely is tho sort of
Sabbath this Sunday the beer garden and
tho saloon, Which tbs conductors Of our
public presses in Chioaogo aud other cities,
tel! the people irom day to day Jesus Christ
made when he made the Sabbath for man.
Every intelligent reader of tic Billie
knows that in the idea Of the Sabbath, as
Instituted in Eden and ordained by Christ,
there is first u rest from toll both Of the
body and the mind, and secondly, rest
of the soul in the contemplation aud
worship of God. Man needs rest for his
wcaried powers after the six days labor.
and equally he needs the higher rest Of
divine worship for the soul. The Sabbath
of the New Teastamcnt is rest, and it is
a sacred rest. This twofold character is its
great distinction. 1t is frausht with ines
timablc blessings to man, and it is divincly
adapted to the laboring, toling, restless
millions OF all races and conditions, first,
because it is a day of sacred rest--rest
from the cares of business aud rest from
the cxcitements of animal pleasure. 70
change this character of the day is to
change its whole bcncficent intention.
4 - ~ tSiiSuOC SuONS tudI just plOpOEblOn
as men turn the Sabbath into day of
ordinary secular business, or into holiday
OF amusement and animal Indulgence, they
have destroyed the SIbbath and defeated
its grand purposes of good. They have
taken heavens universal antidotc for tho
evils, of ccusclcss toll, and turn it into
curse.
This is what tho men of our times arc
doing with the Sabbath now in all Of our
great cities. Somo of them arc doing it
blindly, not knowing what they do, not
Knowing that they are subvcrting one Of
tho most benefiocnt institutes for tho toll
ing millions God ever ordained. And
some are doing it wilfully, knowing that
they arc fighting against God aud tho
plainest prcccpts Of his word May az our
leading journalists, who are thus opposing
the Sabbath and misleading tho people,
know that their arguments are sophistioal