The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-25

ing OF people In church on earth to MAX
one think Of the rapt .assemblaRe Of tn
skies. There Is something in the song 0
the Christian church to make one think O
the song Of the elders before the throne
the harpists and the trumpeters OF Go,
accompanying the harmony. The light o
better Sabbath gilds the top of this, ant
earth and Heaven comes within speakin,
distance OF each other, the song Of triumph
waving backward and forward, now tossed
up by the church Of earth, now sent bacl
by the church of Heaven.
DAY Of all the week The best
Emblem of eternal rest"
With what revulsion and with what pity
we must look out on that large class oil
persons in our day who would throw dis.
credit upon the Lords day. There ars
two things which Christian people ough
never to give up: the one Is the Bible, ths
other Is the Sabbath. Take away one and
you take both. Take either and farewell
to our civil and religious liberties
When they go, all go. He who has
ever spent Sunday in Paris, or Ant.
werp, or Rome, il he be an intelligent
Christian, will pray God that the day will
never come when the Sabbath Of CONT.
mental Europe shall put its foot upon our
shores. / had q friend in Syracuse who
lived to be one hundred years of age. He
said to mo, in his ninety-ninth year: 81
went across the mountains in the early
history OF this country. Sabbath morn.
ing came. We were beyond the reach OF
civilization. My comrades were all
| going out for an excursion. I said
| No, won't 60; It is Sunday Why, they
laughed. Thew said: I'VE haven't any
Sunday here.' %. yes,'I said, you have.
| l brought it with me over the mountains ,"
There are two or three ways in which we
| can war against Sabbath breaking usages
in this day; and the first thing is to get
| our children right upon this subject, and
| teach them that the Sabbath day is the
holiest Of all the days, and the best and
| the gladdest. Unless you teach your child
under the paternal roof to keep the Lords
day, there are nine hundred and ninety
chances out of a thousand it will never
learn to keep the Sabbath. You may think
to shirk responsibility in the matter, and
send your child to the Sabbath school and
the house Of God; that will not relieve the
matter. want to tell you in the name of
Christ, my Maker and my Judge, that your
example will be more potential than any
instruction they get elsewhere, and if you
disregard the Lords day yourself, or in
any wise throw contempt upon il, you are
blasting your children with an infinite
curse.
1t is a rough truth, I know, told in o
rough way; butiti Is Gods truth. neverthe-
less. Your child may go on to seventy or
eighty years of age, but that child will
never get over the awful disadvantages
of having had Sabbath breaking father
or Sabbath. breaking mother. 1t is the
joy OF many of us that we can look back to
an early home where God was honored
and when the Sabbath came it was n day
OF great conservation and joy. We remem-
Der the old faces around the table that
Sabbath morning. Our hearts melt when
we think Of those blessed as sociations, and
We may have been off and committed many
indiscretions and done many wrong things;
but the day will never come when we for
get the early home in which Gods day
was regarded, and father and mother told
us to keep holy the Sabbath.
There is anolher way in which we can
war against the Sabbath breaking usages
OF the country at this time and that is by
making our houses of worship attractive
and the religious services inspiriting.
plead not for gorgeous audience chamber;
plead not for grained rafters or magnifi-
cent fresco; but plead for comfortable
churches, home-like churches places
where the church going population behave
as they ought to. Make the church well
come to all, however poorly clad they may
be, or whatever may have been their past
history; for think the Church of God is
not so much made for you who could have
churches in your own house, but for the
vast population of our great cities, who
are treading on toward death, with no
voice of mercy to arrest them. All,
when the prodigal comes into the church,
do not stare at him as though he had no
right to come. Give him the best seat you
can find for him.
Sometimes a man wakes up from his sin
and says: "I'!l go to the house of God"
Perhaps he comes from one motive, per.
haps from another. He finds the church
dark and the Christian people frigid land |
there are no people on earth who can be |
more frigid than Christian people when |
they try), and the music is dull, and he |
never comes again. Suppose one of these |
men enters the church. As hs comes in |
he hears a song which his mother sang
when he was a boy; he remembers it. He |
sits down and some one hands him q book, |
open at
Jerusalem, my happy home,
Name ever dear to me-"
eyes, !" he says, 81 have heard that many
INES" He sees cheerful Christian peo-
de there, every mans face q psalm Of |
thanksgiving to God. He says: "Do you
lave this so every Sunday? l have heard
hat the house of God was a doleful place,
md Christians were lugubrious and re-
'elling! / have really enjoyed myselfw
The next Sabbath the man is again in the
anne place. Tears of repentance start
lown his cheek; he begins to pray; and
When the communion table is spread he
its at it, and some one reaches over and
avs: II am surprised to find you here.
bought you didn't believe in such
hings." "Ah" he says, 81 have
'een captured. I came in one day and
found you were all so loving and cheer
III here that concluded I would come
mong you. Where thou goest l will go;
by people shall be my people. and thy
rod my God. Where thou diest will die,
nd there will be buried"
Ah, you can not drive men out Of their
ms, but you can coax them out-you can
harm them out
l would to God that we could all come to
higher appreciation of this Sabbath
eritage! We can not count the treasures
one Christian Sabbath. 1t spreads out
yer US the two wings of the archangel of
lercv. o, blessed Sabbath! blessed Sab
ath! They scott great deal about the
Id Puritanic Sabbaths, and there is a
'onderful amount Of wit expended upon
lat subject now-ths Sabbaths they
sed to have in New England.
/ never lived in New England, but l {
ould rather trust the old Puritanic Sab.
ath, with all its faults, than this modern
abbath, which is fast becoming no Sab.