The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-23
OBSERVANCE or cHEsABpArM.
A',Local Sermon BY kov. DR.. smith a
Fourth blfcot Church. l.L.,f

a, Local Hermon BY Nov. DR.. smith nj
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" Rsy. DR.. John E. Smith preached sermon
yesterday morning that had considers bic
local colorlng and thereby created more
comment about town than the sermons
usually preached do. His text was .Re.
member the Sabbath day 10 keep Il holy.
Si1 days shalt thou labor" etc. His IDS,
point was that the Sabbath was made for
man and not man for tue Sabbath, and In
this connection he went Into the origin Of
the day, his statements being purely script.
ural. He then anAlyz!d the nature OF ihe
sabbath, frat as day u rest for all toileIu,
second as . dayot devotion. "A compa,i.
aon was inasituted between the Jewish Sab.
bath Of olden time and the one OF to-day;
one largely rituAlistic which was abrogstvu
at the coming Of Christ. :. 81 80
s1he necessity fJr Sabbath day WAS the
next point touched on In both pbysioal
and moral wsy. l. support OF the first arsu.
ment under TINS head was the fact than no
man can work continuously; his frame de.
mands rest. No time that has eyer besn
experimental on, hes proven 10 give that
needed rest that one IN buven does and refer.
encs was made 10 The time when thu
French tried 10 substitute one In leu, Tbs
moral argument was that the day cams
In between employer aud em.
ploye, and gave 70 burden bear.
ers rest 30 much needed. Sunday fs Gods
intervention be.weeu labor and capital, , 1t
also acted as restraint on nverice, Man
having no higher object In lie, no time lor
higher Thoughts. shs smbiuon Of the SOUL
no matter what 1t might be, would Interfere
with the nUbier aud purer thoug this that sun.
day brings forward. DR.. Smith drew pic.
ture OF sabbathless timed, void Of all hone
and the existence OF o most horrible vasss lasu.
\ The consequence of6abbath desecraton-
displeAsing aud disnonoriig Gods obsery-
ances and not recognition Of a Divine GOV.
erumeut, and tho fact that 1t was sure pre-.
coulssr Of social aud National decay wero FL.
oquently touched on. He referred 10 the
history Of the Scotch and Puritaus a. show.
ing that no Sabbath Keeping people had ever
known such decay; they ralstd great men
notwithstanding the extremes they went 10.
Referring u the btsle OF stfairs IN the city
he said that the men who f4gsautly violated
the sabbalh, who we've the most conspicu-
were men whose business notoriously de-
graded society, whose bosst was, that .aloe n,
were open svs1y Sunday aud tina, tvlcs BIZ
much boar wns sod on Sunday. than any
other day IN the week. H. reterreu TO the
fact that license had been given
Wheeling Park Association to sell
beer. he was very severe, saying
that It YVES a degradation on the community;
that did smallpox exit there 1t would nj
work half the damage that the beer cold Oh
sunday would; that mere men aud women
would be ruined there for time and eternity
than by any other thing that had been per
mited by the authorities. He inveighsd
agaiust the Commissioners because
not member had raised his
VOICE in protest and gave the newspapers
turning over for not proteutirg, while On the
other hand they had praised the excellence
Of the Sunday music at the Park. He Nd.
psaled to all parents to see to it that their
children did not ' sit the Park on sunday.