Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-14

| jeet, and teach them that the Sabbath
day is the hottest of all the days, and the
best and the gladdest. Unless YOU
TEACH YOUR CHILD
under the paternal roof to keep the
Lord 8 day, there are $50 chances out of
1000 it will never learn to keep the Sab
| bath. You may think to shirk RESPONSE
bility in the matter and send your child
to the Sabbath school and the house of
God; that will not relieve the matter. /
want to tell you, in the name of Christ ,
my Maker and my Judge, that your ex-
ample viii be more potential than any
instruction they get elsewhere; and if
you disregard the Lord IS day yourself, or
in any wise throw contempt upon it, you
are blasting your children with an infinite
curse. 1t is a rough truth, 1 know, told
in rough way; but it is Gods truth /,
nevertheless. Your child may go on to
seventy or eighty years of age,
but that child viii never get over
the awful disadvantage of having
had a Sabbath breaking father or q
Sabbath breaking mother. 1t is the joy
of many of us that we can look back TO
an early home where God was honored, ,
and when the Sabbath came it was day
of great conservation and joy. We re-
member the old faces around the table
that Sabbath morning. Our hearts melt
when we think of those blessed associa-
tions, and we may have been off and
committed many indiscretions and done
many wrong things; but the day will
never come when we forget the early
home in which God s day was regarded, ,
and father and mother told US to keep
holy the Sabbath.
There is another way in which we can
war against the Sabbath breaking usages
of the country at this time, and that Is
by making our houses of worship attrac-
tive and the religious services inspiriting.
/ plead not for
A GORGEOUS AUDIENCE CHAMBER;
1 plead not for groined rafters or mag
nifcent fresco; but [ do plead for COM
Portable churches, homelike churches
places where the churchgoing population
behave as they ought to. Make the
church welcome to all, however poorly
clad they may be, or whatever may have
been their past history; for L think the
church of God is not so much made for
you who could have churches in your own
house, but for the vast population of our
great cities who are treading on toward
death with no voice of mercy to arrest
them. All! when the prodigal comes
into the church, do not stare at him as
though he had no right to come. Give
him the best seat you can find for him.
Sometimes q man wakes up from his sin,
and he says: "I'n go to the house of
God. - Perhaps he comes from one mo-
tive, perhaps from another. He finds
the church dark and the Christian people
frigld (and there are no people on earth
-I,,o1 Io f,sior
people when they try and the music is
dull, and he never comes again. Sup
pose one of these men enters the church
AS he comes in he hears a song which his
mother sang when he was a boy; he re-
members it He sits down, and some one
hads him book. open at
Jerusalem, my happy home,
Name ever dear to me. -
eyes, - he says, 81 have heard that
many times. He sees cheerful Chris
tan people there, every man. S face a
pslam of thanksgiving to God. He says:
do you have this so every Sunday? 1
have heard that the house of God was
doleful place, and Christians were lugu-
brious and repelling. l have really en-
joyed myself - The next Sabbath the
man is again in the same place. Tears of
repentance start down his cheek; he be-
gins to pray, and when the communion
table is spread he sits at it, and some
one reaches over and says: 81 am sur
prised to find you here. I thought you
didn 4 believe in such things.' "Ah,
he says, CT have been captured. /
came in one day, and 1 found you were
all so loving and cheerful here that |
concluded l would come among you.
Where thou goest l win go; thy people
shall be my people and thy God my God
Where thou diest will 1 die, and there
viii be buried. -
All. you can't drive men out of theil
sins, but you can coax them out-you can
charm them out.
1 would to God that we could all come
to higher appreciation of this Sabbath
heritage! We cannot count the treasures
of one Christian Sabbath 1t spreads out
over us the two wings of the Archangel
of mercy. oh, blessed Sabbath! blessed
Sabbath They scott q great deal about
the old Puritanic Sabbaths, and there is
a wonderful amount of wit expended
upon the subject nOw-the Sabbaths they
used to have in New England.
l never lived in New England, but
would rather trust the old Puritanic Sab
bath, with all its faults, than this modern
Sabbath, which is fast becoming no Sab
bath at all. If our modern Sabbatism
shall produce as stalwart Christian
character as the old New England Puri-
tanic Sabbatism, 1 shall be satisfied and
shall be surprised.
Oh, blessed day! blessed day should
like to die some Sabbath morning when
the air is full of church music and the
bells are ringing. Leaving my home
group with a dying blessing should like
to look off upon some Christian assem-
blage chanting the praises of God as L
went up to join the one hundred and
forty and four Thousand and the
of thousands standing around
the throne of Jesus Hark! 1 hear the
bell of the old kirk on the hillside of
heaven. 1t is a wedding bell, for behold
the Bridegroom eometh. 1t is victor
bell, for we are more than conquerors
through Him who hath loved us. 1T Is a
Sabbath bell, for it calls the nations of
earth and heaven to everlasting repose.
''Oh when, thou, city of my God,
Shall thy courts ascend?