Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-01-14
KINDS OF SUNDAYS.
A BRIGHT SUNDAY VERSUS A D0LBPUL
SUNDAY.
Dr.. Talmages Sermon Yesterday-A Splendid
And Forcibls Discourse On the Sab
baih-S0Ds Beautiful Illus
tratOns.

Special Tsle0rdm 10 The Register.
BROOKLYN, January 13.-The Rev. T.
De Witt TAlmage, ID, preached to-day
on "a Bright Sunday versus a DOleful
Sunday" After expOunding appropriate c
passages of Scripture he gave out the
hymn:
"welcome, sweet day OF rest,
That saw the Lord arise"
The text was: "And call the Sabbath a
delight. "-Issiah lviii., 1S. DR.. Talmage
said:
There is an element of gloom striking
through all false religions. Paganism Is a
brood of horrors. The god of Confuclus
frowned upon it's victims with blind fate.
MohammedaDism promises nothing 10
those exhausted with sin in this world but
an eternity of the same paseional indul-
gerces. But God intended that our relig-
ion should nave
THE GRAND CHARACTERISTIC OF CHEER
FULNESs.
st. Paul struck the keynote when be said
Rejoice tvermore, and again l say, re-
jOice" This religion has no spikes for
the feet; il has no hooks for the shoulder;
it has no long plgrimages to take; it has
10 funeral-pyrCs upon which to leap; it
has no Juggernauts before which to fall.
It's good cheer is symbOlized in the Bible
by the brightness Of waters, and the redo
lence OF lilies, and the sweetness of music,
and the hilaTities Of a banquet. A choir
of seraphim chanted at the induction, and
pealing trumpet, and waving palm, and
| Tapping wing of archangel are to celebrate
its triumphs. 1t began it's chief mission
with the shout: "Glory TO God in the
highestw and it will close its earthly mis-
sion with the ascrip!ion: "Hallelujah, for
the Lord God ommpotent rtignethW
But men have said that cur religion is
not cheerful, because we have such dole
fol Sabbath. They say: "You can have
your religious aasemblages, and your long
facee, and your smiling cant, and your
psalm books, and your Bibles. Give us
the Sunday excursion, and the horse race,
and the convivial laughter. We have so
much JOY that We want to spread it all
over the seven days OF the week, and you
shall not have one of our days of worldly
satisfaction for religious dolefulness."
want to show these men-if there are any
such in the house this mofniDg-tbat they
are under n great delasioD, and that GCd
intended the ffty-twO Sundays Of the year
to be hung up like bells in atower, beating
a perpetual chime Of joy and glory and sal
vation and hsaven; for want you to carry
ont the idea OF the text, land call the Sab.
bath a delight"
remark in the first place, we are to find
in this day
THE JOY OF HEALTHY REPOsE.
In this democratic country we all have TO
work-some with hand, sumo with brain,
some with foot II there is in oil this
house hand that has rot, during the past
year, been stretched forth TO some kind
of toll, LET it be lifted. Not one, not one
Yo1 sell the goods. You teach the school.
You doctor ia the sick-ToOm. You pTao-
tice at the bar. You edit a newspaper.
You tan the hides. You preach the Cos
pei. Ycu mend the shoee. You sit at the
shuttle. You carry the hod of bricks up
the ladder on the wall And the one
occupation is as honorable as the other,
provided God calls you to it. care not
what you do, if you only do it well. But
when Saturday night comes you are jsded
and worn. The hand cannot so skillfully
manufacture; the eye cannot see as well;
| the brain is not so clear; the judg.
ment is not so well balarced
The Sabbath comes and it bathes the
soreness from the limbs, quiets the agi.
tated brain, ard puts out the frea of anxi-
ETY. that have been burning all the week.
| Our bodies are
sEvEE-DAY CLOCKS,