St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-23
WAR ON THE SABBATH.
The Nerves, Brain, Muscles. Bones
and the Entire Physical and Nor
al Nature Cry for Rest.
The Seventh Day a Savings Bank
Into It Resources are Gathered
Upon Which to Draw
All the Week-How an Invasion Of 1t
Wrongs Vast Multitude Of En-
ployes of Their Rest
A Day Upon Which the Sin of the Land Il
Assaulted from Fifty Thousand
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BROOKLYN, n. Y, Feb. 22.--Dr. Talmage
preached in the BROOKLYN Tabernacle to-day
on the subject, The War on the Sabbath.
The opening hymn was:
"Arm Of the Lord, Awake Awake.
Put on Thy strength, the nations shaker ~
The text was taken from Exodus XXI, 13:
'Eeriy, Ny Sabbaths We shall keep"
The wisdom of cessation from Lard labor
one day out of the seven is almost univer-
sally acknowledged. The world has found
out that it can do less work in seven days
than in six, and that the fifty-two days of the
year devoted to rest are an addition rather
chan a subtraction. Experiments have been
made in all departments. The great Castle
reagh thought he could work his brain 365
days in the year, but after awhile broke
down and committed suicide: and Wilber-
force said Of him: Poor Castlereaghl This
is the result Of the non-o6seryance of
the Sabbath ce,eb ,lted merchant de-
cared 60 should have been a maniac long
brain, the muscles, the bones, the eutire
physical intellectual and moral nature cry out
for the Sabbatic rest. WHAT is true Of man
is for the most part true Of the brute. Trav-
elers have found out that they come to their
place OF destination sooner when they let the
horses rest by the way on the Sabbath. What
is the matter with those forlorn creatures
70, - oif 4
they stumble and stagger and falls 1t is for
the lack of the S0bbatic rest. In other DAYS
when the herdsmen drove their sheep and
cattle from
TIE FAR WEST
down to the seaboard, 1t Was found out by
experiment that those herdsmen's droTes
who halted over the seventh day got down
sooner 20 the seaboard than those who
passed on without the observance of the Holy
Sabbath. The fishermen off the coast OF
Newfoundland declare that those men dur
ing the year catch the most fish who stop
during the Lor'i's day. When | asked the
Rocky noun tain locomotive engineer why he
changed locomotives when It seemed TO be
straight route, he said: ''We
have to let the locomotive stop and cool of
or the machinery would soon break down.,
Men who made large quantities OF salt were
told that If they allowed their kettles to cool
over Sunday they would submit themselves
to great deal Of damage. The experiment
was made, some observing the Sabbath and
some not observing the Sabbath. Those who
allowed the fires TO go dows aad the kettles to
cuol once week, we're compelled to spend
only small sum for repairs, while in the
cases where no Sabbath was observed many
dollars were demanded for repairs.
In other words, intelligent man and dumb
beast and dead machinery cry out for the
Lords day. A prominent manufacturer told
me that he conld see q difference between
the goods which went out OF his establish
ment on Saturday from the goods that went
out on Monday. He said: They were
very different indeed. Those that were
made in the former part OF
the week, because OF the rest that had been
previously given, were better than those llat
were made in the latter part Of the week
when the men were tired out. The Sab
bath comes, = and 1t bathes the soreness from
the limbs. quiets
TnE AGiTATED BRAIN
aud puts ont the fires Of anxiety that have
been burning all the week. Our bodies are
seven-dsy clocks, and unless on the seventh
day they are wound up they run down into the
grave. Tue Sabbath was intended IA a saw
iugs bank; into it We are to gather the re-
sources upon which We are TO draw all the
week. That mau who breaks the Sabbath
rO0s his own nerve, bis own muscle, his
own brain, his own bones. He dips up the
wine Of his own life and throws It away. he
who breaks the Lords day gives mortgage
to disease and death upon his entire physical
estate, and at the most unexpected moment
that mortgage will be foreclosed aud the soul
! elected from the premises. Every gland
and pore and cell and fugrr nail demands
the seventh day for repose. The respiration
Of the lungs, the throb of the pulse in the
wrist, the motion Of the bone in its socket,
declare "Remem Der the Sabbath day to keep
! it holy" There are thousands Of men who
have had their lives dashed out against the
golden gates of the Sabbath.
We hear a great deal Of talk about ''the
rights of the people" to have just such
amuseineuts on Sunday as they want to have.
/ wonder If the Lord has any rights. You
rule your family, the governor rules the state,
the president rules the whole land; wonder
I {. the Lord has right 10 rule the nations aud
make the enactment: Remember the Sab
bath dav to keep it holy and If there Is any
appeal 70 higher court from that decision,
aud il the men who are warring sgainst that
enactment are not guilty Of high treason
against The maker Of heaven and earth, they
! have in our cities put God on trial II has
been toe thesters and
TIE OPERA HOUSES
OF the land, plaintiffs versus the Lord Al
I mighty defendant aud the suit has been be-
gun and who shall come out ahead you
know. Whether it be popular or unpopular
l now announce it rs INV opinion that the
| people have 20 rights save those which the
great Jehovah gives them He has never
given the right to man 10 break His holy
Sabbath, and as long as his throne stands He
Z will never give that right.
Still further protest against this n7asion
OF the Lords day because it wrongs q vast
multitude Of employees Of their rest-the bar
/ tender in case Of the groZ shop, and in case
I Of the theater the sceue-saifters, the ballet
+ dancers, the eall-bOys, the innumerable al
I teudGuts and superuumeraries. Tney are
paid small salaries at the best. You see
them on the stage in tiBssl aud tassel. or
/ you see them in gauze Khirling In tce-tOr
/ tgTes, and you mistake them for fairies or
/ queens; but after is O'Clock you nav see
Z them irTudiing through the strrets in faded
/ dress. sbiTering and tired, seeking their
I homes IN The gSrrets aud cellars Of the city