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

wound up, they run down into the grave.
TIE Sabbath was intended es savings
bank; into il we are to gather the re-
sources upon which we are TO draw all the
week. That man " no breaks the Sabbath
robs bis own ne,ye, his own mnscle, his
own brain, his own bones. lie dips up the
wine of his own life, and throws il away.
He who breaks the Lords day gives q
mortgage TO disease and death upon his
entire physical estate, and at the most IN
expected nom ent that mortgage will be
foreclosed, aud the soul elected from the
premises. Every gland, and pore, end
cell, and fnger-nail demsnde the seventh
day for repoee. The respiration of the
lungs, the throb of the pulse in the wrist,
the motion of the bone in its socket de-
clare: Remember the Sabbath day, to
keep it holy" There sre thousands Of
men who have had their lives dashed ont
against the golden gates of the Sabbath.
a prominent London merchant testiiies
that thuty years sgo he went to London.
He says: 81 have during that time
watched minutely, and l have noticed
that the men who went to business an the
Lords day, or opened their counting
houses, have, without n single exception,
come to failure" A prominent Christian
merchant in Boston says: 81 find it don't
pay TO work On Sunday. When / was a
boy l noticed out on Long Wharf there
were merchants who loaded their vessels
on the Sabbath day, keeping their men
busy from morning till night, and it is my
observation that they came to nothing
these merchants-and their children came
TO nothing. 1t doesn't pay" he says, ito
work en- the Sabbath"
| 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
will tell me, they have come either 10
financial OF to moral beggary. ! defy You
to point out a single exception, and you
can take the whole world for yOur field.
Ii has either been financial or moral de-
4 falcation in every instance. Six hundred
and forty physicians in London petition
Parliament, saying: 1--WE must have the
Sabbath obeyed. We can not have health
in this city and in this nation unless the
/ Sabbath is observed" " Those in our own
country have given evidence on the same
side. The man who takes down the shut
ters of his store on the Sabbath takes down
the curse of 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
81 DEFY your Christian Sabbath. l will
raise a Sunday crop" So he went to
work and plowed the ground on Sunday,
and narrowed it on Sunday, and be
planted corn on Sunday, and he
Iesped the corn on Sunday, and he gath
cred it into the bsrn on Sunday. There, y
he SAYS. 81 have proved to you that all
this idea about a fatality accompanying
Sabbath work is a perfect sham. My corr
ia qarpered. and all is we'll" But before
many weeks passed tie Lord God struck
that barn with his lightnings, and away
went the Sunday crop.
So great is the moral depression coming
upon those who toll upon the Sabbath-day,
that YOU may have noticed (if you have
NOT. I call YOUR attention to the fact) that
in cases where the public interest demands
Sabbath Toll the moral depression Is SC
great that there ore but very few who can
stand it. For instance, the
nolice service, without which
not one of oar houses would be safe-there
are very few who can stand the pressure
and temptation Of it. In London, where
there are five thousand policemen, the
statistics are given that in one year nine
hundred and twenty-one Of that five