The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-03-04
PULPIT UTTERANCEs.
Remember the Sabbath Day to
Keep It Holy"
The One Days Rest In Seven-All Nature
Calls for Periodical Repose-A Protest
Against the Nom Observance OF
the Divine Statute.

bne DTOOKlyu lHDernacle on Duuuhy On Cno
subject: "The War on the Sabbath" The
text was taken from Exodus XXI, 10:
hverily, my Sabbaths ye shall keep"
Following are the main portions Of the
sermon:
The wisdom of cessation from hard labor
sne day out Of the seven Is almost univer-
sally acknowledged. The world has found
out that 1t can do less work In seven days
han In six, and that the fifty-two days Of
theyear devoted to rest are an addition
rather than a subtraction. Experiments
have been made In all departments. The
nerves, the brain, the muscles, the bones,
the enf,re physical, intellectual and moral
nature cry out for the Sabbath rest. What
Is true of man is for the most part true of
the brute. Travellers have found out that
, they como 10 their place Of destination
sooner when they let their horses rest by
the way on the Sabbath. In other days
when the herdsmen drove their sheep and
cattle from the far West down to the sea-
board 1t was found out by experiment that
those herdsmen and drovers who halted
over the seventh day got down sooner to
the seaboard than those who passed on
without the observance Of tho holy Sab
bath. The fishermen of the codst of New
foundland declare that those men during
the year catch the most fish who rest on
the Lords day.
When asked the Rocky Mountain To-
comotiye engineer why he changed loco
motives, when 1t seemedrto be straight
route, he said: ave have to let the To-
comotive stop and cool of, or the ma,
chinery would soon break down." Men
who made large quantities of salt were
told that IL they allowed their kettles to
cool over Sunday they would submit them
selves to great deal OF damage. The ex-
pertinent was made, some observing the
Sabbath and some not observing the Sab
bath. 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 observed many dollars were
demanded for repairs.
In other words, intelligent man and
dumb beast and dead machinery cry out
for the Lords Day. 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 savings bank; into 1t we are to gather
the resources 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 wine of his
own life and throws 1t away. He who
la IN erfu "a
to disease and death upon his entire ply
sical estate, and at the most unexpected
moment that mortgage will be foreclosed
and the soul elected from the premises.
A prominent London merchant testifes
that thirty years ago he went to London.
He says: 81 have during that time
watched minutely, and Ihave noticed that
the men who went TO business on the
Lords Day or opened their counting
houses have without a single exception
come TO failure" A prominent Christian
merchant in Boston says: 81 find II
doesn't pay TO work on Sunday. When /
was boy noticed out on Long Wharf
there were merchants who loaded their
vessels on the Sabbath day, keeping their
men busy from morning till night, and II
; Is my observation that they themselves
came TO nothing-these merchants-and
their children came TO nothing. II doesn't
pay" he says, ito work on the Sabbath" J"
While the attempt to kill the Sabbath by
the stroke Of an axe and fail and the yard
stick has beautifully failed, 1t is proposed
In our day 10 drown the Sabbath by open
ing all the grog g-shops An organized move
ment is on foot 10 get the New York Leg
lature TO repeal the present law which pro-
hiblts the sale Of intoxicating liquors on
the Sabbath. II Is said that this law Ia
not executed. Ten thousand men In the
city Of Brooklyn, in behalf Of law and or
der, are about TO see that the law is exc
cuted. Tho Sabbath has been sacrificed 10
the rum traffic. 1t is unsafe for any other
class Of men to be allowed license for Sum
day work. But swing out your signs, o
ye traffickers In the peace Of families in
the souls Of immortal menl Let the corks
ly and the beer foam and the rum 90 tear
ing down the half-consumed throat Of the
inebriate. God does not see, does hei
Judgment win never come, will its
They would bury the Sabbath very de-
Gently under the wreath of the target
company and TO the music Of all Stra-
kosch's brnzen instruments. There are to-
day In the different cities ten thousand
hands and ten thousand pens busy In at
tempting 10 cut out the heart Of our Chris
tian Sabbath and leave II a mere skeleton
OF what 1t was. The effort is organized
and tremendous, and unless the friends Of
Christ and the lovers OF good order shall
rouse up right speedily, their sermons and
their protests will be uttered after the cas-
tie Ia taken. There are cities In the land
where the Sabbath has almost perished,
and every Sabbath night those cities are
In full blaze Of theatric and operate en-
tertainment, and 1t is becoming practical
question whether we who received pure
Sabbath from the hands OF our fathers
shall have piety and pluck enough to give
TO our children the same blessed inherit
ance. The eternal God helping US, wa
will.
Iprotest against this invasion Of the holy
Sabbath In the first place because II is q
war on divine enactment. God says, In
Isaiah; "If you turn away thy foot from
doing thy pleasure on my holy day thou
shalt walk upon the high places" What
did He mean by "doing thy pleasureP
He referred 10 secular and worldly amuse-
mania (Ia aiono throneh the atroeie