The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-29
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINEs SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject. "A Bright Sunday Versus
a DoIeful Sunday"

TEXT: 'And call the Sabbath delight"
Isaiah lviil., l3
There is an element OF gloom striking
through all false religions Paganlsm Is
brood of horrors The god OF CoDfuclus
frowned upon its victims with bind iate-
Mohammedanism promises nothing 70 those
exhausted with sin in this world out an
eternity of the same passional Indulgence;
But God intended that our religion snould
have the grand characteristic Of cheertulness-
st. Paul struck the keynote when he said'
''Reioice evermore, and again say, re-
ioicen This religion has no spikes Tor the
feet; it has no hooks for the shoulder IL mas
no long pilgrimRgeS to take; it has no tuner
al-pyres upon which to leap; II has no ! uS
gernauts before which to fall Its good cheer
is symbolized in the Bible by the brightness
Of waters, and the redolence OF lilies, ana the
sweetness of music, and the hilarlties OF a
banquet. A choir of seraphim chanted at 10
induction, and pealing trumpet, and WaVina
palm, and Tapping wing OF arehangel are IS
celebrate its triumphs. IL began lts c1ie q
mission with the shout: "Glory TO Goa IN
the highestp' and it will close its earthly
mission with the ascriptiOn; "Hallelulah, tor'
the Lord God omnipotent reignethI
But men have said that our religion IS not
cheerful, because we have such doleiul SAD
bath. They say: "You can have your re,
ligious assemblages, and your long faces ana
y
and your Bibles Give US the Sunday excur-
sion, and the horse-race, and the convlviai
laughter We have so much JOY that we
want TO spread it all over the seven days OF
the week, and you shall not have one OF our
DAYS of worldly satisfaction for rellgioE
dolefulness." l want to show these me-
there are any such in the house this - =
that they are under a great delusion,
that God intended the fifty-two Sundays q
the year TO be hung up like bells in tower,
beating perpetual chime Of JOY, and glory,
and salvation, and heaven; for want you to
carry out the idea of the text, land call the
Sabbath delight
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 hand, some with brain,
some with foot If there is in all this house
a 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 at the bar
You edit newspaper. You tan the hides.
You preach the Gospel. Y on mend the shoes.
You sit at the shuttle. You carry the hod
Of bricks up the ladder on the wall And
the one occupation is as honorable as the
other, provided God calls you 10 it. care
not what you do, If you only do it well. But
when Saturday night comes you are jaded
and worn. The hand cannot so
skillfully manufacture, the eye cannot
see as well; the brain is not so clear;
the Judgment Is not so well balanced. A
prominent manufacturer told me that he
could see a difference between the goods
which went out of his establishment on Sat-
urday from the goods that went out on Mon
day. 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 agitated brain,
and puts out the fires of anxiety that have
been burning all the week Our bodies are
seveh- day clocks, and unless on the seventh
day they are wound up, they run down into
the grave. The Sabbath was intended as q
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 Sabbath
robs 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 the Lords day gives mortgage
TO disease and death upon his entire physical
estate, and at the most unexpected moment
that mortgage will be foreclosed, and the
soul elected from the premises. Every gland,
and pore, and cell, and iDger-nail demands
the seventh day for repose. The respiration
OF the lungs, the throb of the pulsG in the
wrist, the motion Of the bone in its socket
declare: Remember the Sabbath day, TO
keep il holyn There are thousands of men
! who have had THAR lives dashed out against