Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-31

ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS.
Delivered by Rev. Edward ID. Eaton, in the Con-
sregational Church. Lancaster. May
22nd, 1883.

ssnd, 1883.
The address suffers somewhat from
enforced Authorization, owing to the
lack OF space, but much greater essen
tiol that is lacking is the magnetic. con
yinclng eloquenee Of Mr.. Eaton. The
Grafton can be given, but the feryid
tone, the earnest delivery, and we'll
modulated voice, are lacking, without
which one-half the charm is gone.
Mr.. Eaton began by saying he had
looked forward with special pleasure &c
the exercises of to-day and the day fol.
lowing, although he could not look back
over all these forty years and their sue
cess; still he was born in this church fam
lly, and all his earliest experiences were
gained here. He had had the pleasure
OF being present at the dedication OF
TINS new and more fitting home of the
church. '.ln this church was settled
Tor my spirit the great controversy, and
here gave my heart to Christ. My
first attempts to preach were made be-
fore this kind aud indulgent congrega-
ton, and it is still my Joy and privilege
to come back and join with the church
family IN their exercises, and may it be
SO IN the years to come
In the churchyard at Fortingall in the
| highlands was a yew tree, which emf
nent authorities had figured out dated
BACK It's commencement three thou
sand years. 1t saw the coming and 90
ing OF the different eras, and yet stood
calm and stately, unmoved by storm Oh
tempest, by change or time. In this il
was an exemplar of the Christian
Church.
One OF the earliest fruits of the church
of God on earth and the fruit most
closely knit with the life of the church
on earth was the Sabbath, and to moth
ing more fit could they turn, gathered
tonight to celebrate the observance OF
more than stwo thousand consecutive
Sabbaths, than to the investigation, OF
this Sabbath.
God says six days shalt thou labor, but
shall rest on the seventh. Christ said
distinctly the Sabbath was for man.
Here followed a review of the old jew
ish Sabbath, and the causes which
brought about the change to the first
day OF the week. From the day when the
ilrst Roman emperor who was Chris
tan ordered that that day should be
kept, it had been the life of the church
In connection with that day, the
speaker thought that there was two
lines of thought. First is the Sabbath
day, made for man to rest.
''ln the sweat of thy brow shalt thou
eat thy bread Who has not felt the
heavy weight of this primal ordinance,
In his own experience and in his obser-
walton Of the toiling masses of men,
Yet it is a good ordinance, and one no
person can evade with impunity. The
curse of idleness is worse than the curse
of labor. six days shalt thou labor, =
the Lord means that. But he has not
made US to endure the strain of continu-
Gus labor. Night must distill its dew
upon the fever of the day. The law of
six days labor is being kept with in
creasing faithfulness. Aye! with des-
perdte energy, but the law of the seventh
day rest, is becoming increasingly dif-
iicult to keep. The monotony of labor
is the cause of the great increase of
insanity among operatives, and the in
crease is intensified frightfully if the
continuous monotony is not broken by
Sunday rest. If the fourth command
ment was needed when given, how inn
measurably more is it needed now when
labor is SO subdivided and energies so
much more strained by competition.
Urged on constantly, brain and body
become deceased. While sixty hours of
labor in six days followed by rest is
found to be not too much for either
body or brain, sixty hours every
seven days will ruin both brain and body
"God gives civilization, in his Sundays,
fifty-two springs year"
According to German statisticians the
Jews lived from eight to ten years longer
than their neighbors. This Dr. Haegeler,
of Basel, connects with then keeping
Of the Sabbath Day.
Here the speaker gave an array of
testimony from unprecedented and infidel
experts, in favor of rest on the seventh
day, including. Chevalier, Proudhon.
Baron Wilhelm Humboldt, DR.. Willard
Parker, DR.. Paul Niemeyer. Dr.
Haegeler and others. The old stories
of the Sunday-keeping travellers on the
Sunday were probably true, but they
had kind of goody-goody sound, and
might be called condolences, but who
could gainsay such scientific authority
rs this.
But this merciless, unremitting toll
for man and beast is not Gods ordi-
nance, but mans perversion. God has
made the Sabbath for man. Macbeth S
panegyric on sleep may be most appro-
priately applied to this day of blessing.
Sleep that knils up the ravcled sleeve Of care,
Sore labor's bath.
Balm of hurt minds, great natures second
course
Chief nourishcr in life's feast.
Let every creature under heaven say,
as the Lords day dawn's upon earth,
''Return unto thy rest, O, my soul, for
the Lord hath dealt bountifully with
thee
Where Gods plan is carried out, the
toll, the hustle, the dust, the sweat, the
disquiet of six days is succeeded by the
peace and rest, the comfort and calm OF
the seventh. The wrought up mind is
relieved from its tension. The machin-
cry stands motionless. The Crime is
washed from the face of the laborer, and
his weary frame is ungirt from toll. The
yoke and harness are off the laborer and
beast. Peace is in the air Rest is the
portion of all.
But the Sabbath is not made
for mans rest alone, but for
the benefit of his spiritual ma
ture. MAN should not live by bread
alone" Our Saviour said that and real
lied it fully. Yet man must live by
bread, if he is to live. Dr. Andrew
Wilson, of Edinburgh, says, IF we
probe all human endeavor to the bottom
we shall find there an empty stomach. =
And not only does man want bread for
his empty stomach, but he wants bread
for his children's needs, his vanities, his
displays, his clamorous pleasures and
his intense ambitions. If he would
CRAFTY all these hungers, he must be at
work carly and late, his thought outrun-
ming his toll and devising new compli-
cations and streams of activity.
But there is whole upper range
of needs, above and. beyond these.
Those needs that have respect to man as
an immortal soul, citizen of two worlds.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but
by every word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of Cod But how shall this
busy, overburdened man find leisure to
eat of this other and more needful food
How, amid the din and activities, the
! pre-oceupation and strain of all his fac
ulties, can be listen with attention to the
voice of God? Only in this way: He
must call hall, the dust and toll must