The national leader., 1889-01-26

F, Sabbath takes down the. curse Of Al
! mighty God. That farmer who cul-
lures his ground on the Sabbath dny
raises crop Of neuralgia, and OF con-
sumption, and Of death.
A farmer said: ST defy your Girls
tan Sabbath. l will raise Sunday
crop" So he went to work and plow-
ed the ground on Sunday. and harrow
ed it on Sunday, and he planted corn
on Sunday and he reaped the corn on
Sunday, and he gathered it into the
barn on Sunday. "There," he says.
II have proved to you that all this idea
about fatality accompanying Sabbath
work is perfect sham. My corn is
garnered, and all is well.'' But before
many weeks passed the Lord God struck
that barn with His lightnlngs, and
away went the Sunday crop.
sABBATn-KEEPING PAYS.
During the last war. it was found out
that those public works which paused
on the seventh day turned out more
war material than those which worked
all the seven days. Mr.. Bagnall, a
prominent iron merchant, gives this
testimony: II find we have fewer acci-
| dents in our establishment and fewer
| Interruptions, now we observe the
Lords day; and at the close of the
| year, now that we keep the Sabbath, l
| find we turn out more iron and have
| larger profits than any year when we
worked all the seven days." The fact
is, Sabbath-made ropes will break, and
Sabbath-made shoes will leak, and Sab
bath-made coats will rip, and Sabbath
made musketS will miss fire, and Sab.
bath occupations will be blasted. A
gentleman said: "I invented a shuttle
on the Lords day. was very busy. so
1 made the model of chat new shuttle
on the Lords day. So very busy was l
| during the week that had to occupy
many Sabbaths. 1t was great sue
cess. enlarged my buildings: built
new factories, and made hundreds of
thousands of dollars; but have to tell
you that all the result of that work on
the Sabbath has been, to me, ruin. l
enlarged my buildings, l made a great
many thousands of dollars, but | have
lost all, and l charge it to the fact of
that Sunday shuttle" 1 will place in
| two companies the men in this COM
Inunity who break the Sabbath and the
men who keep it, and then I ask you
who are the best friends of society?
SABBATH IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
I suppose that the mere philosopher
would say that the Sabbath light comes
in wave current, just like any other
| light; but it does not seem SO to me.
1t seems as if it touched the eyelIds
more gently, and threw brighter glow
on the mantel ornaments, and cast
better cheerfulness ON the faces of the
children, and threw a supernatural
glory over the old family Bible. HALL
Sabbath light! We rejoice in it. Rest
comes in through the window, or it
leaps up from the fire, OF it rolls out in
the old armchair, or it catches up the
body into ecstacy, and swings open be-
are twelve pearls. The bar of the un-
opened warehouse, the hinges of the un-
| fastened store window, the quiet Of the
commercial. warehouse seem to say:
:This is the day the Lord hath made" I"
Rest for the sewing with weary
hands, and aching side, and sick heart.
Rest for the overtasked workman in
the mine, or out on the wall, or in the
sweltering factory. Hang up the plane,
drop the adZe, slip the band from the
wheel, put out the fire. Rest for the
body, for the mind, and for the soul.
''Welcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
| Welcome to this reviving breast,
| And these rejoicing eyes"
Again remark, we ought to have
| in the Sabbath the 10y of
| DOMESTIC REUNION
and conservation. There are some
very good parents who have the faculty
of making the Sabbath great gloom.
Their children run up against the wall
of parental righteousness on that day.
They are sorry when Sunday comes,
and glad when it goes away. They
think of everything bad on that day.
1t is the worst day to them, really, in
all the week. There are persons who,
because they were brought up in Chris
tian families where there were wrong
notions about the Sabbath, have gone
out into dissipation and will be lost. A
man said to me: 81 have a perfect dis
gust for the Sabbath-day. l never saw
my father smile on Sunday. 1t was
such a dreadful day to me when L was
a boy, never got over it, and never
WILL" Those parents did not ''call the
Sabbath delight" they made it a
gloom. But there are houses repre-
sented here this morning where the
children say through the week: 81
wonder when Sunday will comet"
They are anxious to have it come. L
hear their hoSannd in the house; hear
their hOsanna IN the school, God in
tended the Sabbath to be especially
ADAY FOR THE FATHER.
! The mother is home all the week. Sab
bath day comes, and God says to the
father, who has been busy from Mon
day morning to Saturday night at the
store, or away from home: "This is
your day. See what you can do in
this little fcck in preparing them for
heaven. This day 1 set apart foryou." !"
You know very we'll that there are
many parents who are mere suffers of
the household; they provide the food
and raiment; once in a while, perhaps,
they hear the child read line or two
IN the new primer; OF if there be case
of especial discipline, and the mother
! cannot manage it, the child is brought
up in the court-martial of the fathers