Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-01-20

OF those L.essed associations, ana we
NAV have been of and committed
many indiscretions and done many
wrong things, but the day will never
come when we forget the early home
in which Gods day was regarded, and
father and mother told us TO keep holy
the Sabbath.
HOW THE EVIL Is TO BE FOUGHT.
There is another way in which we
can war against the Sabbath breaking
usagcs of the country at this time, and
that is by making our houses Of wor-
ship attractive and the religious
services inspiriting. plead not for a
gorgeous audience chamber; l plead
not for groined rafters or magnificent
fresco; but / do plead for comfortable
churches, homelike churches-places
where the church going population be-
have as they ought to. Make the
church welcome 10 all however
poorly clad they may be, or whatever
have been their past history; for !
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.
Ali 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 a man wakes up from his
sin, and he says: 'Tll 60 TO the house
of God" Perhaps he comes from one
motive, perhaps from another. He
finds the church dark and the Chris
tan people frigid land there are no
people on earth who can be more
frigid than Christian people when
they tly) and the music is
dull, and he never comes again. Sup
pose one of these men enters the
church. AS he comes in heJ hears o
song which his mother sang when he
was a boy; he remembers it. he sits
down and some one hands him a book,
open at
Jerusalem. nj happy home
Name ever dear 70 me
'Yes," he says, II have heard that
many times" He sees cheerful Chris
tan people there, every mans face q
psalm Of thanksgiving 10 God. BE
says: DO you have this SO every
Sundayf / have heard that the house
Of God was a doleful place, and Chris
tians were l~ugubrious and repellingi
l have really enjoyed myselfT The
next Sabbath the man is again in the
same place Tears OF repentance starr
down his cheek; he begins 10 pray:
and when the communion table 10
spread, he sits at it. and some one
reaches over and says: IL am sur
prised 10 find you here. ! thought
you didn't believe in such thingsT
"Ahr he says, II have been captured.
/ came in one day, and | found you
were all so loving and cheerful here
that l concluded I would come among
you. Where thou goest ] will 90;
thy people shall be my people, and
thy God my God. Where thou diest
viii l die. and there will ! be buried"
Ali you can't drive men out of their
sins, but you can o them out-you
can charm them out
| would 10 God that we could all
come 10 a higher appreciation OF this
Sabbath hcritagei We cannot count
the treasures OF one Christian Sabbath.
II spreads out over us the two wings
Of the archangel Of mercy. Oh,
blessed Sabbath blessed Sabbath
They scoff a great deal about the old
Puritanic Sabbaths, and there is q
wonderful amount OF wit expended
upon that subject now-the Sabbaths
they used to have in New England.
/ never lived in New England, but
| would rather trust the old Puritanic
Sabbath, with all its faults. than this
modern Sabbath, which is fast becom.
ing no Sabbath at all. IL our modern
Sabbatism shall produce as stalwart
Christian character az the old New
England Puritanic Sabbatism, | shall
be satisfied. and | shall be surprised.
Oh, blessed dayl blessed dayi /
should like 10 die some Sabbath morn.
ing when the air is full of church
music and the bells are ringing. Leav-
ing my home group with a dying
blessing, | should like 10 look off upon
some Christian assemblage chanting
the praises Of God as | went up to join
the n hundred and forty and four
thousand and the thousands of thou
sands standing around the throne Of
Jesus. Hank / hear the bell OF the old
kirk On the hillside Of heaven. IL is a
wedding bell, for behold the bride
groom cometh. II is a victor's bell, for
we are more than conquerors through
him who hath loved US. 1t is a Sab
bath bell, for il calls the nations Of
earth and heaven TO everlasting re
pose.
oh when. thou city OF my God,
Shall ! thy courts ascendf
Where congregations Be'er break up,