Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-29
AGAIN ON SUNDAY.
Rev. C. Z. Locke's Second Sermon on Ne
cessities of Rest One Day In Seven
Excuse for Some Sunday Workers ID
Admiral

Rev. c. Z. Locke's Second Sermon on Ne.
cessities of Rest One Day In seven
Excuse for Some Sunday Workers is
Admitted.
Yesterday evening great crowd attended
evening service at the Smith6eld Street
Methodist Church, the occasion being a
sermon by the Rev. G. z. Locke. The
church was filed to overfowing, and the
words of the eloquent preacher were listened
to with rapt attention.
Mr.. Locke took ior his theme "The Sab
bath breaker, conspirator against the
physical nature of man." and his text was:
''In it thou shalt not do any work, " Exodus
Xxx, 10. Following is a synopsis:
The sermon opened with a description Of the
Tower of London, with its donjon keep and
gloomy cells. in one of which the notorious
Guy Fawkes was immured previous to his exc
cution. Fawkes suffered imprisonment and
death because he was a consprator against
an earthly King and his mobiles Death
was the need of such conspir-
ator. What, then, should be the
doom of conspirators against God, who is the
King of Kings? There was conspiracy going
on among mankind against God, and an at
tempt was being made to undermine and over.
throw the manhood of whole nation. Shaii
of this vile conspiracy, or shall we sit somno:
lently by until the ruins of great people tell
future ages the lamentable story OF our fair
he then proceeded to state that the sabbath
breaker was the conspirator. and SaDpatn-
breaking the conspiracy alluded TO.
Mans body was the vehicle for the real man;
but so inseparably connected were the real man
and his corporeal form, that the Destruction OF
the body involved the flight OF the soul to un-
known and undiscovered realms.
Mans body might also be compared to a scaf-
EAll N,,s11 ma n,
in the likeness of the great ideal-Christ Jesus.
Thus it could be seen that the spiritual welfare,
as well as the length aud happiness of our
lives, depended greatly on the care OF our
bodies.
God made most people to live till their phys
ical power should be exhausted. Ii man had
remained true to Adamic endowance, the aver
age age would be IS instead of As. Most people
die long before God intends or desires. 1t is an
effete doctrinal superstition that all men die
because their time has come. God creates us
obeyed His injunctions implicitly, half the
heart troubles, fevers and pulmonary diseases
would practically disappear. Man pays Sc
verely for his lawlessnesss. 1t is only right
that the scaffolding should be made strong and
sound"
The reverend gentleman then reached the
next point in his sermon. "Rest a physical
necessity" Animal life illustrated the theory
by obeying the dictates of nature and taking
rest. Man himself was an animal and re-
quired rest The physical man needed rest
might be ascribed the extreme frequency
of railroad accidents. The abolition of Sunday
trains now being agitateu for, and the conse-
Quent rest given to the wretched employees,
would do much to preventing train wrecks.
which were very nearly always the result of
fatigue. The well-known physician spoke truly
when he said: Nowadays men don't die-they
kill themselves ...
The brain worker wanted rest. and If he
could not get rest an early grave the mad
house would be his lot. Psychologists and
psychologists could say if it were not suicide
for man to kill himself by overwork. The
preacher then went on to declare his interest in
the laborers' agitation for the eight-hour law;
but owned that he considered it far more i'm
portant that they should obtain law forbid
ding labor on the Sabbath. He called upon
the labore-s to stand up and demand one days
rest in seven. If they demanded that they
would get it,
1t was said that there were 100000 men in this
country who were compelled to labor on the
Sabbath. There was an excuse for a percent
age of these. but for the vast majority-for
those who worked from ayaricious causes and
from total indifference to Sabbath observance
there was no excuse whatever.