The Russellville Democrat., 1889-01-24
fALMAGE's SERMON.
The Necessity of the Sabbath ID
 Carrying Out Gods Plans.
II Is Not of Necessity Dxy Devoid Of Pleasures, But Man May Not vio- late It's Sanctity with Con.
 tinued Iapuritys

Rev, I. Dewitt Talmage took for the
 subject of recent sermon in Brooklyn
 Tabernacle: "The Delights of the Sab-
 bath" His text was:
 And call the Sabbath delIght--Isaiah
 lyiii. ia
 There is au element of gloom striking
 through all false religions. paganism is
 brood of horrors. The god of Con-
 fucius drowned upon it's victims with
 blind fate. Mohammedanism promises
 nothing to those exhausted with sin in
 this world, but an eternity of the same
 passional indulgences. But God in-
 tended that our religion should have the
 grand characteristic of cheerfulness. St.
 Paul struck tho Keynote when he said
 Rejoice eyermore. and again say, re-
 Joiee." This religion has no spikes for
 the feet; 1t has no hooks for the shoulder;
 1t has no long privileges to take, it has no
 funeral pyres upon which to leap, it has
 no luggernauts before which to fall. It's
 good cheer is symbolized in the Bible by
 the brightness of waters and the redo
 lence of lilies, and the sweetness of
 music, and the hilarities of banquet. A
 choir of seraphim chanted at it's induc-
 ton, and pealing trumpet, and waving
 palm, and Tapping wings of archangel,
 are to celebrate it's triumphs. It began
 it's chief mission with the shout; "Glory
 to God in the highest:" and 1t will close
 its earthly mission with the ascription
 "Hallelujah, the Lord God omnipotent
 reignethm
 But men have said that our religion is
 not cheerful, because we have such Q
 doleful Sabbath. They say: "You can
 have your religious assemblages, and your long faces, and your sniffiing cant,
 and your Psalm books, and your Bible.
 Give us the Sunday excursion, and the conviyial laughter. We have so much joy that we want to spread it all over the sev-
 en days of the week, and you shall not have one of our days of worldly satisfac- tion for religious dolefulness." want to
 show these men-if there are any such in
 this house this moFning-that they are under a great delusion. and that God in- tended the fifty two Sundays of the year to be hung up like bells in tower, beat ing a perpetual chime of joy and glory and salvation and Heaven; for I want to carry out the idea of the text, land call
 the Sabbath. delight"
 l remark, in the first place, we are to find in this day the joy of healthy repose. In this democratic country we all have to work-some with hands, some with brains, some with foot. If there is iu all this 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 prac- tiCe at the bar. You edit newspaper. You tan the hides. You preach the Cos pei. You mend the shoes. You sit at the shuttle. You carry the hod of bricks up the ladder on the wall. And the one occu- patton is as honorable as the other, pro- vided God calls you to it. I care not what you do, if you only do it well. But when Saturday night comes you are iaded and worn.
 The hand can not so skillfully manufact ure; the eye can not see so well; the brain is not so clear; the judgment Is not so well balanced. A prominent manufact- urer told me that he could see a differ ence between the goods which went out of his establishment on Saturday from the goods that went out on Monday. He saids ''rhey 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 bathes the sore ness from the limbs, quiets .hhe .he &itated brain and pnts out the-fires..of anxiety tkat haye been burning all the week, Our todies are sAvan- day clocks, and unless on the seventh day they are wound up they run down into the grave.
 rl,o Gah knt Ial bank. Into it we are to gather the re- sources upon which we are to draw all the week. That man who breaks the Sabbath robs his own nerve, his own muscle, his own brain, his own bone. He dips up the wine of his own life and throws it away. He who breaks the Lords day gives a to disease and death upon his entire physical estate, and at the most moment that mortgage will be foreclosed and the soul elected from the premises. Every gland, and pore, and cell, and fnger-nail demands the seventh day for repose. The respiration of the lungs, the throbs of the pulse in the wrist, the motion of the bone in it's socket de- clare. "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 testifies that thirty years ago he went to London. He says: ''Ihaye during that time watched and have noticed that the men who went to business on the Lords day or opened their counting houses have, without a single exception, come to fail ure." A prominent Christian merchant in Boston says q find it don't pay to work on Sunday. When 1 was a boy noticed out on Long Wharf there were merchants who loaded their vessels on the Sabbath day, keeping their men busy from till night, and it is my observa- ton that they themselves came to noth merchants-andt their children came to nothing. It doesn't pay" he says, ''to work on the Sabbath"
 appeal to your observation. Where are the men who, twenty years ago, were breakers, and who have been breakers ever sinceg Without single exception, you will tell me, they have come either to financial or moral beggary. defy you to point out a single and you can take the whole world for your field, It has either been a or moral dedication in every instance. Six hundred and forty physi- clans in London petition i'll Parliament, saying; I've must have the Sabbath obeyed. We can not have health in this city and in this nation unless the Sabbath Is observed" Those ill our own country have given evidence on the same side. The man who takes down the shutters of his store on the Sabbath takes down the curse of the Almighty God. That farmer who cultures his ground on the Sabbath day raises a crop of neuralgia and of con sumption and of death. A farmer said: ''l defy your Christian Sabbath. will raise Sunday crop" So he went to work and plowed the ground on Sunday, and narrowed it on Sunday, and he planted corn on Sunday, and he reaped the corn on Sunday, and he gathered 1t into the barn on Sunday. "There," he says, "I have proved to you that all this idea about fatality accompanying Sabbath work is a perfect sham. My corn is garnered and all is we'll" But before many weekg uaased the ord (.od sfruek