The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-23
THE WAR ON THE SABBATH.
Or. Talmage Talks of the Wisdom of
Ceasing Labor One Day in Seven.
Physical, Religious and Political Aspects of
the Questionable Day Must Be Pre-
served if the Nation Would Live
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.


Arm of the Lord awakei awakei
Put on Thy strength, the nations shake."
The text was taken from Exodus, XXI, 13:
''Veriiy, my Sabbashs We shall keep" Following
dis DIR. Talmages sermon in full:
The wisdom of cessation from hard labor one
day out of the seven is almost universally
tknowledged The world has found out that it
can do less work in seven days than in six, and
that the ffty.two days Of the year devoted to
rest are an addition rather than a subtraction
Experiments have been made in all departments.
The great Castlereaeh thought ne could work his
brain 365 days in the year, but, after awhile,
broke down and committed suicide: and Will
berforce said of him: Poor Castlcreagh!
This is the result of the non-observ-
ance of the Sabbath" A celebrated
merchant declared: II should have
been maniac long ago but for the Sabbath
The nerves, the brain, the muscles, the bones.
the entire physical, intellectual and moral
nature. cry out for the Sabbatic rest What is
arue of man is, for the most part. true of the
brute.
Travellers have found out that they come 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 city cars2 Why do
they stumble, and stagger and fall2 1t is for
the lack of the Sabbatc rest. In other days,
when the herdsmen drove their sheep and cattle
from the far West down to the seaboard, it was
found out, by experiment, that those herdsmen
aud drovers who halted over the seventh
Iay got down sooner to the seaboard
than those who passed on without the OBJ
seryance 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 asked the Rocky mountain locomotive
engineer why he changed locomotives when it
seemed to be straight route, he said: 1--WE
have to let the locomotive stop and cool off or
She 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
down and the kettles to cool once week. were
compelled to spend only small sum for repairs
while in the cases where no Sabbath was OBJ
CRY FOR REST.
In other words. intelligent man and dumb
beast and dead machinery cry out for the Lords
Gay. A prominent manufacturer told me that
ne could see difference between the goods
which went out Of his establishment on Satur-
day 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 previ-
Ousy given, were better than those that were
made in the latter part of the week, when the
men were tired out" The Sabbath comes and
it bathes the soreness from the limbs, quiets the
agitated brain, and puts out the fires of anxiety
chat have been burning all the week. Our
bodies are seven-day clocks, and unless on the
seventh day they are wound up, they run down
into the grave. The Sabbath was intended as a
saviags bank; into it we are to gather the re-
sources upon which we are to draw all the week.
That man who breaks the Sabbath robs his own
nerve his own muscle, his own brain,
his own bones He dips up the vino 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 fore
closed, and the soul elected from the premises.
Every gland, and pore, and CELL and Rnger-nail
demands the seventh day for repose. The res
piration of the lungs the throb Of the pulse in
the wrist, the motion of the bone in its socket
declare Remember the Sabbath day to keep it
holyH There are thousands of men who have
had their lives dashed out against the golden
gates Of the Sabbath A prominent London
merchant testified that thirty years ago he went
to London. He says: 81 have during that time
watched infinitely and l have noticed that the
men who went to business on the Lords
day or opened their counting houses have with
out a single exception come to failure A
prominent Christian merchant in Boston says:
''I find it don't pay to work Sunday. When
was a boy noticed OFT on Long Wharf there
vera merchants who loaded their vessels on the
Sabbath day, keeping their men busy from
morning till night, and it is my observation that
they themselves came to nothing-these mer-
Ghants-and their children, came to nothing" 1t
doesn't pay, he says, to work on the Sabbath
While the attempt to kill the Sabbath by the
stroke of ak, and fail and the yardstick, has
beautifully failed, it is proposed in our day to
drown the Sabbath. by opening all the grog-
shops. An organized movement is on foot to
get the New York Legislature to repeal the
present law which prohibits the sale of intoxi-
eating liquor on The Sabbath. 1t is said that
this law Is not executed. Ten thousand men in
Che oity of Brood lyn, in behalf of law and order
are about to see that the law is executed
tho Sabbath has been sacrificed TO the rum
traffic. To many of our people the best day of
the week is the worst. Bakers must keep their
shops closed on the Sabbath. 1t is dangerous to
have loaves OF bread going out on Sunday The
shoe store is closed; severe penalty will attack
the man who sells boots the Sabbath. But
down with the window shutters of the grog shops.
Our laws shall confer particular honors upon
the rum traffickers. All other traders must stand
aside for these. Let our citizens who have dis