The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-01-16
"A ADELIGHTFUL SABBATH.
Sermon by the Rev. T. Dewitt
TalmaGe, D. D.
The sabbath shonld he a Delight "A Day
o JOY and Rrsi--.rhe savlngs Bank
for iho SiorIng OF Mental aud
Physical Forces.

sermon In tho Brooklyn Tabernacle. After
Z expoundlng appropriate passages OF Scrip
ture he gave out the hymn;
"Uiglcssnc swcc. day OF rest, ~
That saw thc Lord arise"
The text was, 'And call the Sabbath do
iight'--lsaiah lviii. l3 DR.. Talmage said
There is an element OF gloom striking
through all false religions Paganism Is q
brood Of horrors. The god Of Confuciu.
frowned upon its victims with blind fate
hohammedanisn promises nothing to those
exhausted wi h sin in this world, but an
eternity OF the same passional indulgencies
But God Intended that our religion should
have the grand characteristic OF cheerful
ness. st. Paul struck the keynote when he
said: "Reioice everpore, and again say
rejoice" This religion has no spikes fol-
the feet; II has no hooks for the shoulder;
II has no long pigrimages to take; 1t has no
funeral Ipyres upon which TO leap; it has nc
1uggernauts before which to fall Its good
cheer is symboized ia the Bible by the
brightness Of watcrs, and the redolence oil
lilies, and the sweetness OF music, and the
hilarities Of banquet A choir of seraphim
chanted at its induction, and pea,ing
trumpet and waving palm, and Tapping
wing Of archangel are TO celebrate its tri.
umphs. 1t began its chief mission with the
shout: "Glory TO God in the highest" and
It will closets earthly mission with the as
I cription: "Hallelujah, for the Lord God
omnipotent reignethln
But men have said that our religion Is not
cheerful, because we have such doleful
Sabbath. They say: "You can have your
religious assemblages aud your long faces,
and your smiling cant, and your psalm
books, and your Bibles. Give us the SUM-
day excursion, and the horse race and the
convivial laughter. We have SO rach Joy
that we want 10 spread II all over the seven
days OF the week, and you shall not have
one Of our days of worldly satisfaction for
religious dolefulness.n want 10 show
these men-if there are any such In the
house this morning-that they are under a
great delusion, and that God intended the
fifty-two Sundays Of the year TO be hung up
like bells In u tower, beating perpetual
chime Of Joy and glory and salvation anl
Heaven; for / want you TO carry out the
idea Of the text, "And call the Sabbath q
delight.n
remark, in the first place. we are 10 find
In this day the JOY Of healthy repose. Iuthis
democratic country we all have to work.
some with hand, some with brain, some wiil
foot II there Is in all this house a haDi
that has n 4. durinp the mast wear heen
stretnhed forth N some kin,l of toil let 4, he
liftod. Not one. not one You sell the goods
Yon Vaeach the scbool ynu doctor In tba
sick room. You practice at the bar. You
edit n newsnaper Won tan the hides Yop
preach the eospel You mend the shoes.
You ait at the shuttle. Won carry the bod
of bricks nm the ladder on the wall And
the one occupation Ia as honorable as the
other. provided God calls you 10 t. cars
mot what Won do n Won only do II we'll gut
when saturday night comes YOU are faded
and worn. Tbe hand can not an skiilfullv
manufacture: the eve can not see 40 we'll:
the brain IA not so clear. the Judgment "a
mot 80 well balanced A prominent mann.
facturer told me that he could see a differ.
epce between the goods which went out Of
his establishment on Saturday from the
Foods that went out on Monday. he said !,
ssrhev are very different indeed ThoAe that
were made in the former mart Of the week
because Of the rest that had been previonslv
given. were better than those that were
made In the latter mart Of tho week. wben
the men were tirsd out.p The sabbath
comas and n hathea tho soreness from the
Iimbs oniets the aOitated brain and
nuts out the Ares of anxietv that
have been burning ALI the week Our
bodies are seven.dav clocks and nm.
less on the seventh dsv tbev ara wound
Mn thav RIM down into tho orave Ths
Eabbath vas Intended ma n savings hanL.
into n we are 10 Oatber the resonrces unon
which ,vo are IN draw ali the week That
man who breaks The sabbath robs his own
narve his o,vn muscIe hia oyyn hraJn b,s
avn bones He dins nm the. vino N bis
own lie md tbrnws 4 awav ue who
breaks tho T,ord,s dav gives n mortgaos IN
disease and death unon his entire physicaI
estate and at the most unexuectcd moment
that mortgaoo will be foreclosed and tho
sonl eiocted from the nremisaa Fvorv
giana and nora and cell Una fInoer.naJl AZ.
mands the seven,b dav for rcnose Tho
,aapira,jon 81 the lnngs tbe ,broh n, NO
nplse In the yrIst the motion NJ the hone On
H. soc,et daclore. nRememher the sah.
h.,h dav to Leen 4, holvn Tbore ar.
thon.anSs ~ man who have had their Iivss
dashed ont aga,nst the golden ga,es n, the
sahha,h A nrominent I ondon n,ercbant
testiscs thnt thirty ,.,ars ago he yvsnt IN
Iondon Ne savs: ~ have dnring that
tIme ,ya,ched minn,elv and have notIced
that Inc mon who wen, to hpsIness on Tho
Iord,.dav or onenod thar connIinr. house
ha,e ,vI;hon, sinalo ev,,en,,on Como .,
Sai,nre,, A nrominent chrIatjan mercban, ver,.
a. pns,or sa,,,. at All I, dn,,,, ,,,. ~
,vorL On SUNDAY when 7 was n bov /
no,,cod on, =, Tono Wharf ,boro ,,,oro NO.
Sabbath dav Leo,Ino their men bnsv from