Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-16

bone with his maternal grandfather on
a farm in Fountain county, Indiana.
When he was seventeen years old his
grandfather retired from the farm and
Mr.. Apologize started out in life for hims
self. A year later he united with the
Christian church. This act highly in
censed his relatives and friends and
turned them against him.
In that day schools in western Indiana
were very poor and afforded but little ops
portunity for an education. So few were
the advantages that at the age of eigh-
teen Mr.. Apologize could scarcely read
aud write. About this time an intense
desire for an education took possession
of him and he determined to satisfy that
desire; but he had no money; he must
work to support himself. So he procured
some books and applied himself to study
during his leisure moments. Often after
hard days work on the farm, midnight
found him at his books. At the end of
two years he had not only mastered
without the aid of teachers-the common
school branches, but also had saved
money enough to enable him to enter
college.
In September. 1878, he entered the
scientific course in Wabash College at
Charlottesville, Ind. This step so
offended his grandfather that he was dis
inherited. Mr.. Apologize continued here
in college two years when he was CONS
PEELED to seek employment to replenish
his now empty purse. The two years in
college increased his thirst for knowledge.
BY teaching through the fall and winter
months and working mostly on the farm
during the summer, and by little in
vestment, he saved enough to nearly
complete his collegiate course. But a
false friend to whom he had trusted his
hard earned money succeeded in cheating
him out of all except 500. With that
he entered Butler University at Indians
polls, September, 1878, Here by hard
work and economy he maintained him>
self for three years, when his health
failed and he sought the farm for restor-
alton. During this period of recupera-
ton, he would, on Sundays, speak in
school houses on religion to those who
would come to hear him. Such was his
success that he changed his purpose and
entered the ministry. He was ordained
as q minister in the Christian church in
March, 1882, and in September, the same
year, he was called to serve two churches,
his first charge, in eastern Virginia
After one year in this field, he entered
the College of the Bible, at Lexington,
KY, where he spent two years.
Feeling the need of better acquaint>
ance with the world. he refused several
invitations to settle with churches, and
travelled through several states. He Or
ganized the first congregation of disciples
in the state of Delaware which has grown
to large and influential church. In
December, 1886, he was called to the
First Christian church in New Albany,
Indiana, AT the end of one year he resign
GU bhat postum w aSCSpb q SoLA iiOli thS
Christian church in this city where he
began his work the first of last January.
"a CHRISTIAN SABBATH IN ROCK ISLAND. d"
Such was the subject of Rev. G. w.
Cues sermon at the First M. E. church
last evening. His text was from Mark,
227:
1.-THE sabbath was made for man and not man
for the Sabbath"
The term Sabbath is from the Hebrew
Sabata, and means rest, said Mr.. Cue.
1t is the name of a certain holy insttu>
ton that God inaugurated at the close of
the works of creation. In the book of
Genesis, second chapter, third verse, you
will read, And God blessed the seventh
day and sanctifed it, because that on it
he had rested from all his works" That
is, the seventh day became sacred because
the institution of the Sabbath was cele~
brated upon it. The observance of the
Sabbath by all people is enjoined by Je>
hovah in the fourth commandment of the
decalogue: Remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy" Again, "Ye shall keep
my Sabbath and reverence my sanctuar-
les" This holy institution does not rest
upon an arbitrary law, but principle |
founded in the philosophy of our moral
natures. We are benefited mentally |
morally, physically and spiritually by its
observance. Such is the nature of man,
such the institution of the Sabbath and |
such the effect which the keeping of it
will have upon him; that if he is obedi>
ent to God in this he will be obedient in
other things A Sabbath, keeping people
are invariably an obedient people. The
manner in which people regard the
Sabbath is a test of their character-an
index of their morality and religion. If
all men had properly kept the Sabbath
from the beginning, all would have
known Jehovah and worshipped him and
idolatry would never have been prac-
ticed on the earth. While man keeps the
Sabbath, God keeps man-not by mirac-
ulous power but by the natural laws of
his moral government. God instituted
the Sabbath for man for his physical
moral and spiritual good, In order that
we may be thus benefited, the DAY must
be kept according to Gods word. All
secular employment suspended, the home