Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-14
Welcome, sweet day Of rest,
That saw the Lord arise.

Welcome, sweet day Of rest,
That saw the Lord arise
The text was: And call the Sabbath
delight. - Isaiah lviii, 49,
DR.. Talmase said: There is an ele-
ment Of gloom striking through all false
religions. Paganism is a brood of horrors.
The god Of Confucius frowned upon its
victims with blind fate. Mohammedan-
ism promises nothing to those exhausted
with sin III this world but an eternity of
the same passional indulgences. But
God intended that our religion
should have the grand character
istic Of cheerfulness. St. Paul
struck the Keynote when he said:
Rejoice eYermoTe, and again ! say, re-
joice. y This religion has no spikes for
the feet; it has no hooks for the shOul-
der; it has no long pilgrimages to take;
il has no funeral-pyTes upon which to
leap il has no juggernauts before which
10 fail. It's good cheer is symbolized in
the Bible by the brightness of waters,
and the redolence Oflilips and the sweet
ness of music, and the hilarites of a ban
quet. A choir of seraphim chanted at its
induction, and pealing trumpet, and
waving palm, and tapping wing of arch
angel are TO celebrate its triumphs 1t
began its chief mission with the shout:
"Glory to God in the highest!' and it
viii close its earthly mission with the
ascription: 'Hallelujah, for the Lord
God omnipotent reigneth!''
But men have said that our religion is
not cheerful, because we have such
\ DOLEFUL SABBATH.
They say: You can have your religious
assemblages, and your long faces, and
your smiling cant, and your psalm books
and your Bibles Give us the Sunday
excursion, and the horse-race, and the
convivial laughter. We have so much
JOY that we want to spread it all over the
seven days Of fine week, and you shall not
have one of our days of worldly satisfac-
ton for religious dolefulness. - | want
TO show these men--if there are any such
in the house this mOrning-that they are
under great delusiOn, and that God in
tended the fifty-two Sundays Of the year
10 be hung up like bells i'll
a tower, beating perpetual
chime of joy and glory ana saliva.
ton and heaven; for I want to carry out
the idea Of the text, ''and call the Sab
bath delight. -
/ remark, in the first place, we are to
find IN this day the JOY of healthy Tepose.
IN tlis democratic country we all have TO
wOrk-sOme with hand, some with brain.
house hand that has not, during the
past year, been stretched forth TO some
kind of toll, let it be lifted Not one.
not one. You sell the goods. You
teach the school. You doctor in the Sick
room, You practice ut the bar. You
edit newspaper. You tan the hides.
You preach the Gospel. You mend the
shoes. You sit at the shuttle You carry
the bod of bricks up the ladder on the
wall. And the one occupation is as hon
orable as the other, provided God calls
You TO it. ! care not what you do, If You
only do il Wei. But when Saturday
night come, you are jaded and worn.
The hand can not so skillfulIy manufac-
ture; the eye can not see
rs well; the brain is not so clear:
the judgment is not so well balanced. A
prominent manufacturer told me that he
could see Il difference between the goods !
which went out Of his establishment OH
Saturday from the goods that went out on
Monday. He said: "They were very
different indeed. Those that were made |
in the former part of the week, because !
Of the rest that had been previously !
given, were better than those that were |
made in the latter part of the week, |
when
THE MEN WERE TIRED OUT. -
The Sabbath comes, and it battles the |
soreness from the limbs, quiets the agi- |
tated brain, and puts out the fires of |
anxiety that have been burning all the |
week. Our bodies are seven day clocks, |
and unless on the seventh day they are |
wound up, they run down into the grave |
The Sabbath was intendez rs a savings
bank; into it we are TO gather the re-
sources upon which we are to draw all the |
week. That man who breaks the Sab
bath Tobs his own nerve, his own
muscle, his own brain, his own bones.
He dips up the wine of his own life,
and throws it away. He who breaks
tho Lord 5 day gives a mortgage to dis
ease and death upon his entire physical
estate, and at the most unexpected mo-
uent that mortgage viii be foreclosed,
and the soul elected from the premises
Every gland, and pore, and cell, and fin
ger-nail demands the seventh day for re-
pose. The respiration of the lungs, the
throb of the pulse in the wrist, the mo-
tiou of the bone in its socket declare:
4" Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it
holy There are thousands of men
who have had their lives dashed out
against the golden gates of the Sabbath
a prominent London merchant testifes
that thirty years ago he went to Lon
don He SAYS: 81 have during that
time watched infinitely, and l have no
ticed that the men who went TO
business on the Lords day, or
opened their counting houses, have,
without \ single exception,
come TO failure. - A prominent Chris
tian merchant in Boston says: 81 find
il don t pay to work on Sunday. When
was a boy noticed out on Long Wharf,
where there were merchants who loaded
their vessels on the Sabbath day, keep
ing their men busy from morning till
night, and it is my observation that they
themselves came to nothing-these mer-
chants-and their children came to
nothing 1t doesn t pay, - he says, ''to
work on the Sabbath. -
l appeal to your observation. Where
are the men who twenty years ago were
Sabbath breakers, and who have been
Sabbath breakers ever since? Without a
single exception, you viii tell me they
have come either to financial or to
MORAL BEGGARY.
I defy you TO point ont a single excep-
ton, and you can take the whole world
for your field. 1t has either been a finan-