Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-01-20

Inirty years ago ne went 10 London.
He says; II have during that time
minutely, and l have noticed
that the men who went 10 business on
The Lords day, or opened their count
ing houses, have. without single ex-
ception, come 10 failure" A promi-
nent Christian merchant in Boston
says: Il find il don't pay 10 work on
Sunday. When ! was boy. noticed
out on Long wharf there were mer-
chants who loaded their vessels on the
Sabbath day, keeping their men busy
rom morning till night, and il is my
observation that they themselves came
70 nothing = these merchants - and
their children came 10 nothing. II
dosent pay" he says, ITO work on the
HOW THE SABBATH BREAKERS END.
Iappeal TO your observation. Where
are the men who twenty years ago
were Sabbath breakers, and who have
been Sabbath breakers ever sincei
Without single exception, you will
tell me, they have come either TO
financial or to moral beggary. Idefy
you TO point out single exception,
and you can take the whole world for
your field. IL has either been finan-
cial or moral defalcation in every in
stance. Six hundred and forty ply
sicians in London petition parliament,
saying: I'VE must have the Sabbath
obeyed. We cannot 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 shutters of his store
on the Sabbath takes down the
curse Of Almighty God. That
farmer who cultures his ground
on rae sabbath day raBes q
crop OF neuralgia, and OF consumption,
and Of death. A farmer said: II defy
your Christian Sabbath. / will raise
Sunday CROP" So he went to work
and plowed the ground on Sunday,
and narrowed il on Sunday, and he
planted corn on Sunday, and he
reaped the corn on Sunday, and he
gathered il into the barn on Sunday.
There, VI he says, II have proved 10
you that all this idea about fatality
accompanying Sabbath work is q per
feet shs n. My corn Is garnered, and
all is we'll" But before many weeks
passed the 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 no
ticed Gf you have not 4 call your at.
tention 10 the fact) that in cases where
the public interest demands Sabbath
toll the moral depression is so great
that there are but very few who can
stand it, For instance, the police
service, without which not one OF our
houses would be safe-there are very
few who can stand the pressure and
temptation OF il. In London, where
there are Eve thousand policemen, the
statistic is given that in one year nine
hundred and twenty-one Of that
five thousand were dismissed, FIVE
hundred and twenty-three were
suspended. and two thousand four
hundred and ninety-two were fined.
Now, il the moral depression be 80
great in occupations that are posi-
6vely necessary for the peace and
prosperity Of society, | ask you what
must be the moral depression in those
cases where there is no necessity for
Sabbath work, and where a man
chooses worldly business on the Lords
day Just because he likes il, or wants
to add TO his emolumentsf During
the last war il was found out thai
those public works which paused on
the seventh day turned out more wal
material than those which worked all
the seven days. Mr.. Bagnall, a prom
inent iron merchant. gives this test
mony: II find we have fewel
accidents in our establishment
and fewer interruptions, nov
We observe the Lords day; anC
at the close Of the year, no~ that We
keep the Sabbath, | find we turn on,
more iron and have larger profits thar
any year when we worked all the
seven days" The fact is. Sabbath
made ropes will break, and Sabbath
made shoes will leak, and Sabbath
made coats will rip, and Sabbath
made muskets will miss fire, and Sab
bath occupations will be blasted
A gentleman said. Il invented Z
shuttle on the Lords day. was very
busy, 90 / made the model Of that new
shuttle on the Lords day. So very
busy was during the week that had
10 occupy many Sabbaths II was I
great success. Ienlarged my buildings
I built new factories and made hun
dreds Of thousands OF dollars; but
have 70 tell you that all the result O
that work on the Sabbath has been :,
mo ruin. ! enlarged my buildings,
made great many thousands Of dol
lars, but l have lost all, and l charQ
Il 10 the fact Of that Sunday shuttle.
will place In two companies the mel
In this community who break the Sab
bath and the men who keep q, an
then l ask you who are the besf friend
Of societyf Who azo the best friend
Of monisf Who have the best pros
pects for this worldi Who have th'
bogt for the world that 10 10 oonsi
Sabbath morning comes In IL
household. / IFuppona that The mer<
philosopher would say that the 6ab
bath light comes In Z vavo current
just like any other light; bat Il dos
not seem 10 10 me. Il secnls - II 4
touched The eyelids moro gently and
threw brighter glow g 1s manis