The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-01-17
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
A BRIGHT SUNDAY VERSUS A DOLE
Full SUNDAY.

A BRIGHT SUNDAY VERSUS A DOLE
FUL SUNDAY.
The Gioominess That Pervadsa All False
Have the Grand Characteristic OF Cheer
tuIness--A Word to Long Faced People.
BROOKLYN, Jan. l3.-The Rev. Z.
De Witt Talmage, ID, preached to-
day on "A Bright Sunday versus a
Doleful Sunday" After expounding
appropriate 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
delight" Isaiah lyiii, lS. DIR. Tai
mage said:
There is an element Of gloom strik-
Ing through ali false religions. Pagan
ism is brood of horrors, The god Of
Confucius frowned upon lis victims
with blind fate. Mohammedanism
promises nothing to those exhausted
with sin IN this world but an eternity
OF the same passiopaI ipdulgences.
But God intended that our seiigjqu
should have the grand characteristic
Of cheerfulness. st Paul struck the
Key note when he said: "tiej0ice ever
more. and again ] say, rejoice" Ti:s
religion has no spikes for the feet; il
has 40 hooks for the shoulder; it las
no long piigrimages 10 take; il has 30
funeral pyrcs upon which 10 leap; il
hos no juggernauts before which 60
fall its good cheer is symbolizcd in
the Billie by the brightness OF
waters, and the redolence Of lilies
ana he sweetness OF music, and the
hilarities q banquet A choir OF
seraphim chdnted at its induction,
and peaiing yumpet, and waving
palm. and Tapping gi1g VI afqhpngcl
are tocelebrpts its Lrjunlphs. - began
Its chief mission With the siout
"Giory 10 God in tho higlsStl' end il
viii. close its eaythly mission with iAc
Aseription: "HaIlelujah, for the Lord
God onnipotent reigHetbp
But men have said that our religion
Is not cheerful, because wa hage Suah
a doicful Sabbath. They say: ''Y0u
gan i,ego your religious osscnbiaRes,
llld your tong faces and your snii
ding cant, and gsly pGa I'm books nnC
your Biblea. Giye as the Ss2dAy cN
curioD. aud the horse race, pnd he
couvivial laughter. We haye sqmDch
Joy that we want ~ spread il all oyer
Inc seven days OF the weGk. and gou
shall not have ono Of our days OF
worldly satisfaction for religious dole
fulncss. ! want 10 show these men =
II there are any sAelJ in the house thi'
morning-thaI they are npder great
dclusiOB. and that God ipteul@d ibc
Bny-two Sundays Of the year 10 be
hung up like bells ia LoWer. beating
0 perpetual chime Of Joy and glory
and salvation, for want you to ears
out the Idaa of the text, and call the
Sabbath delight"
TIE Do;EFUL SABBATH ~ AN ApoM
NATION.
remark. in the GrSt place, sge arc
10 find IN this dag the 10y oC healthy
Tcpose. In this domocratic couptry
1o VI have 10 work---somc with hnnd,
touse with brain. somo with foot. If
Elere is iB aII this house hand that
bLs moi, during tbe past year, been
stretched forth 10 somS bind of toll
let il DO lifted. MOI ona. not one
You sell the goods. You teach tho
scbDol. You doctor in tho sick room
You practice nt the bar You edit q
newsI,apes. You tan tho hides. You
preach the uo@pci. You mend the
shoes. You sit 'at tho shuttle. You
EaJry the hod Of bricks ap tha ladder
on the will And tho one occupation
~ as honorable Us the other, provided
God calls sou 10 it. ] care not what
you do, if you only do il well. But
when Saturday night comes yop are
iaded and worn The hand canAot
no skilfully manufacture; the eye can
NOT sec as well the brain u not so clear
the judgment Is not so we'll balnncesh
4 prominent manufacturer told ne
that he could see difference between
the goods which went out OF his estab
Eshment on Saturday from the goods
that went out on Monday. lie said
They were very different Indecd
Those that were made in the former
part Of the week. because OF tho res
Lhat had been previously given, wer,
Better than those that were made II
the latter part of tho week, when th'
nlen wee tired Olt," Tho Sabbatl
corItes, and il palhes tho soreness from
the limbs, quiets tho agitated BRAIN
and puts out the fires of anxiety the
have been burning all the week
Our bodies are seven day clocks
and unless on ths seventh day
they are wound up, they rui
down into the grave. The Sab
bath was intended rs II savings banG
into il we are to gataer the resource
upon which we are 10 draw aII tn
week. Thai man who breaks the Sah
bath robs has own nerve, his owi
unlsclc his oSp brains, his own bones
lie Clips up tho wine of his own life
and throws il away. he who break
the Lords day gives mortgage 1
disease and death upon his entir
physical estate, and ut the most ur
expected moment that mortgago vii
be forecloeed, apd tho soul electe
from the premises Every giaEd, an
pore, and coll. and tiRger nail domanq
the seventh day for repose. The re
pirntion of the lungs. tho throb ot th
pulse in the wrist, the motion ~ Oh
bone in It's socket declare: "Remep
bcr the Sabbath day, TO keep II holy
There are thousands of men who hav
had their lives dashed out against I'll
golden gates OF the Sabbath. 4 prom
nent London merchant tcstihes thi
thirty years ago ho went 10 Loudor
lie says; Il have during thnt tim
watched minutcly. aud have notice
that the mon who went 10 business o
the Lords day, or opened their coun
ing bouses. bava, without o single c:
eeption, come 10 failure" A prom
nent Christian merchant IN Bosto
says, j find it don't pay TO work c
Sunday. When | was boy, | notc'
out on Long wharf there were me
chants who loaded their vessels on Il
Sabbath day, keeping their men bu:
from morning till night, and it is n