Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-01-14

on the nver bank, and in the houses Of
SID, | commend 10 you this holy day and
holy servicel | do not invite you 10 swRl-
low great bitterness or 10 carry heavy
yoke; but I invite you TO feel in body
mind and soul the thrill of Joy which God
has banded down in the chalice Of the
golden Sabbath.
With what revulsion and with what pity
we must look out on that large class OF
persons i'll cur day who would throw dis
credit upon the Lords day. There are
two things which Christian people ought
never 10 give up; the one is the Bible, the
other is the Sabbsth Take away one, and
you take both. Take either, and farewell
to Christianity in this country, farewell to
our civil and religious Liberties. When
they go, all 20. He who has ever spent
Sunday in Paris, or Antwerp, or Rome, il
be b. an intelligent Christian, will oray
God that the day will never come when
the Sabbath Of continental Europe shall
put its foot upon our shores. 1 had a
friend in Syracuse who lived TO be one
hundred years Of age. lie said to me, in
his ninety-ninth year II went across the
mountains in the early history Of thi.
country. Sabbath morning came. We were
BEYOND THE REACH OF CIVILIZATION.
Ny comrades were all going cut for al
excursion. said No, l won't 20; it /,
Sunday. Why, they laughed. They
said: We haven't any Sunday here 'Oh
yes, l said, you have. / brought it will
me over the mountains
There are two or three ways in which
we can war against Sabbath-breakinl
usages in this day; aad the first thing il
to get our children right upon this subject
and teach them that the Sabhaih-day i,
the holiect 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 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 10 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 il
you disregard the Lords day yolrself, OF
in any wise thrOw contempt upon it, you
are blasting your children with an infinite
curse. IL is a Ioogh truth, know, told
in q rough way; tut il is Gods truth,
nevertheless. Your child may 60 on to
seventy or eighty years OF sge, but that
child will never get over the awful disad-
vantage OF having had a Sabbath-hreaking
father or a Sabbath-breaking mother. II
is the Joy of many Of 1s that We can lock
back 10 an early home where God was
hOnored, and when the Sabbath came it
was day of great conservation and joy.
We remember
THE OLD FACES AROUND THE TABLE,
that Sabbath morning. Our hearts melt
when Wa think of thOse blessed asSOcia-
tons, snd we may have been Of and COM
mitted many iGdiscretiOns aud done many
wrong things; but the day will never come
when we forget the early home in which
Gods day was regarded, and father aud
mother told us to keep holy the Sabbath.
Thers is another way in which We can
war against the SebDath-bresking ussgss
of the country at this time, and that is by
making our houses of worship attractive
and the religious services inspiriting.
plead not for a gorgeous audience cham
Der; I plead not for grained rafsers or
magnificent fresco; but 1 do plead for
comfortable churches, home-like churches
places where the church-goiGg popula-
ton behave rs they ought to. Make the
church welcome to all, however poorly
clad they may he, or whatever may have
been their p,ft history; fer ] think
the Church of God is not so much
made for you who COuld have churches in
your OWE house, but for the vsst pOpula-
tion ot our great cities, who are tTeldiug
on toward death, with 10 voice OF mercy
10 srrest them. Ahl when the prodigal
comes into the church, do not stare at him
az though he had no right to como. Give
him tim best seat yOu can find for him.
Sometimes a man wakes up from his sin,
and be says: "I'll 90 to the house Of God. "
Perhaps he comes from one motive, per
haps from aDother. He finds the church
dark and the Christian people frigid land
there are no people on earth who can be
more fligid than Christian people when
they try) ard the music is duh, and he
never comes agsin Suppose one Of these
men enters the church. AS he comes in
be hears
A SONG WHICH HIS MOTHER SANG
when be was boy; he remembers it. He
sits down, and some one hands him q book,
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