Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-23
An Organized Effort to Break It
Down,
THAT WILL NOT sUccEED D
Man Has No Rights But Those GiVer
Him By God On
Sinai.
DIR. 1ALMAaEs's SERMON
Special 10 Lhe Register.

1Arm Of the lord, awake awake
Put on thy strength, the Nations shake
The text was taken from Exodus XXI
l3: Verify my Ssbbaths ye shall keep.
Following is Dr.. TalmageS sermon IN full.
he said: .A#
The wisdom OF cessation from hard labor,
one day out of seven, is universally aeknoWl-
edged. The world has foand cut that it
can do less work in seven days than In
six, and that the fify-two days Of the year
devoted to rest are an addition rather
than q subtraction. Experiments have
been made in al departments Phe great
Castlereagh thoasht he could work his brain
365 d4ysin the year, but after awhile broke
down aud committed suicide; and Wilber-
force said of him, Poor Castle,eagh, this
is the result Of the nonobseTvance
Of the Sabbath" A celebrated
merchant declared, II should have
been maniac l0ag ago but for the Sab
bath" The nerves, the brain, the muscles,
the bones, the entire physical, intellectual
and moral nature cry out for the Ssbbatc
rest. What is trae of man is for the most
part true OF the brute.
Travellers have found out that they eeme
to their place of destination sooner when
they let their horses rest by the way on the
Sabbath. What is the matter with those
forlorn creatures, harnessed to some Of our
cSsy cars2 Why do they stumble and stag
ger and fall2 1t is for the lack Of the Sab
batic rest. In other days when the herds
men drove their sheep and cattle from the
far West down to the sesboard It was found
out by experiment that those hesdsmen and
drovers who halted over the seventh day got
down sooner to the sesbosrd than those who
passed on without the observance of the
holy Sabbath. The fishermen off the coast
of Newfoundland declare that those men
during the year catch the most fish who
stop during the Lords day.
When 1 asked the Rocky Mountain loco
motive engineer why he changed loeome
tives when it seemed to be straight route
be said: I'VE have to let the locomotive
stop and cool of or the machinery would
ssou break down" Men who made large
quantities of salt were tod that if the!
allowed their kettles to cool over Sunds!
they would submit themselves to q grea
deal Of damage. The experiment va
made, some observing the Sabbath an'
some not observing the Sabbath. ThOS
who allowed the fires to 60 down and tn
kettles to cool once q week, were compelle'
to spend only small sum for repairs; Will
in the cases where no Sabbath was observe,
many dollars were
Demanded for Repairs.
In other words, intelligent man and dunn
beast and dead machinery cry out for tn
Lords lay. 4 prominent manufacture
told me that he could see q difference bt
tween the goods which went out Of hi
establishment on Saturday from the good
that went ont on Monday. He said: The
were very different indeed. Those tina
were made in the former part
the week, because OF the rest that had bee
previously given, were better than tAoS
that were made in the latter part of IN
week when the men were tired out, anC
| Sabbath comes, bathes the soreness from
the limbs, quiets the sgitated brain and put
out the fires of anxiety that have been burn
ing all the week. Our bodies are seyen-da,
clocks, and unless on the seventh day the!
are wound up they run down into the grave
| The Sabbath day was intended as q saving
bank; into it we are to gather the resource
upon winch we are 10 draw all the week
That man who breaks the Sabbath robs hi
own nerve, his own muscle, his own brain
his own bones. BE dips up the wine Of hi
own life, and throws II away. He VIII
breaks the Lords day gives q mortgage t.
disease and death upon his entire physlca
estate, and at the most unexpected momen
that mortgage will be foreelosed and tn
soul elected from the premises. Ever
gland, and pore, and fngeT-nail demand
the seventh day for repose. The res
piration of the lungs, the throb OF the pulls
in the wrist, the motion OF tn
bone in its socket declares, Remember tn
Sabbath day to keep it holy" There ar
thousands Of men who have had their live
dashed out against the golden gates Of To
Sabbath. A prominent LondeR merchan
testifes that 80 years ago he went to Lon
don. He says: II have during that tim
watched infinitely and / have noticed tha
the men who went to business on the Lord
day or opened their counting houses, hsy
without q single exception, come to fsi
ure." A prominent Christian merchant i
Boston says: 81 find it don't pay to wor
on Sunday. When / was boy notice
out on Long Wharf there were merchant
who loaded their vessels on the Sabbat
day. Keeping their men busy from morI
ing till night, and tits my observation tbs
they themselves came to nothing-theS
merchants-snd their children came
nothing. 1t doesn't pay" he says
To Work on the Sabbath.
While the attempt to kill the Sabbath, B
the stroke of axe and fail and the yardstiC
has beautifully failed, it is proposed in or
day to drown the Sabbath By opening q
tlIe grog shops. An organized moEemel
is on foot to get the New York Legislata
to repeal the present law which prOhibi
. the sale of intoxicating liquor on the Sa
bath. Ii is said that this law is not exec
ted. Ten thousand men IN the city
Brooklyn in behalf Of Law and order q
| about to see that the law IS executed. II
: Sabbath has been sacrificed to the rum tr'
,, &c. To many Of our people the best day
The week Is the worst. Bakers must ke
.. their shops closed on the Sabbath. 1t
: dangerous to have loAves Of bread going o
. ON Sunday. The shoe store is closed; |
we're penalty viii attack the man Whs Sc
. boots on the Sabbath. But down with I
window shutters of the grog-shopS. o
laws shall confer particular honors upon
rum trafickers. An other traders must sta
4 aside for these. Let our citizens who hs
: disgraced themselves BY trading in cloth
l and hoisery, hardware and lumber and 90
. take of their hats to the rum seller, elect
: toRparticular honor. II Is unsafe for Q
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