Milford chronicle., 1889-01-18
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A BRIGHT SUNDAY VERSUS A DOLE
Full SUNDAY.

The GloOminess That Pervndes All False
Religious-The Christian Religion should
Have the Grand Characteristic Of Cheer
fulness--A Word to Long Faced People.
BRooKLYN, Jan. 13.-The Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage, D. D., preached today on "a Bright
Sunday versus a Doleful Sunday" After
expounding appropriate passages Of Script
ure he gave out the hymn;
Welcome sweet day Of rest,
That saw the Lord arise.
The text was: "And call the Sabbath de
light Isaiah lviii, IS. DR.. Talmage said;
There is an element of gloom striking
through all false religions Paganism is
brood Of horrors The god OF Confucius
frowued upon Its victims with blind fate.
Mohammedanism promises nothing to those
exhausted with sin in this world, but an
eternity Of the same passional indulgences.
But God intended that our religion should
have the grand Characteristic of cheertuness.
st, Paul struck the key note when he said;
"Rejoice egermore, and again l say, rejoice.
This religion has no spikes for the feet II has
no hooks for the shoulder; it has no long Pill
| grinages 20 take; it has no funeral pyres on
which TO leap; it has no juggernauts be
| fore which to fall It's good cheer is symbol
AhtA III AAle A1Ablt AN AAll hA AtAAssa N-
and the redolence Of lilies, and the sweet
ness of music, and the hilarities Of
a banquet. A choir of seraphim chanted at
its induction, and peallng trumpet, ana way
| ing palm and Tapping wing Of orchangel are
to celebrate its triumphs. 1t began its chief
mission with the shout: "Glory to God in the
highest.n and it win close its earthly mission
Eiih the ascription; "Hallelujah, for the
I ford God orniDOtcnt rCirnethi'
But men have said that our religion is not
| cheerful. because we have such q doleiui Sab
/ bath. They say: "You can have your relg-
/ fous assamblages, and your long faces, and
| your smiling cant, and your psalm books,
/ and your Bibles Give rs the Sunday excur-
| sion, and the horse race, and tho conyivial
laughter. We have SO much joy that we
want to spread it al over the seven
days Of the week, and you shall
/ not have one of our days Of worldly
| satisfaction for religious dolefulness." Iwant
| 70 show these ineu-if there are any such in
/ the house this morning that they are under
/ a great deiusion, and that God intended the
I fifty-two Sundays Of the year to be hung up
/ like bells in a tower, beating a perpetual
/ chime Of joy and glory and salvation and
/ heaven; for ] want you to carry out the idea
| Of the text, and call the Sabbath delight "
! THE DoLEFUL SABBATH is AN ABoNINATIoN.
Iremark, in the first place, We are to find
/ in this day tho joy Of healthy repose. In this
/ democratic country we all have to work
/ some with hand, some with brain, some with
| foot II there is in all this house 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 a
newspaper. You tan the hides You preach
the Gospel You mend tho Shoes You sit
at the shuttle You carry the hod Of bricks
up the ladder on the wall And the one Occu-
patton is rs honorable as the other, provided
/ God calls you to it. care not what you do,
/ if YOU only do it well But when Saturday
night comes, YOU are iaded and worn. The
hand cannot so skillfully manufacture; the
eye cannot SEQ as well; the brain is not so
clear: the Judgment is not so well balanced.
I A prominent manufacturer told mo that be
could sec a difference between the goods
which went out Of his establishment on
Saturday from the goods that went out on
Monday. He said: "They were very differ
ent indeed Those that were made in the
former part of the week, because Of the resi-
that had been previously given, were better
than those that We're made in the latter part
of the week. when the men were tired out
The Sabbath comes, and it bathes the sore
ness from the limbs, quiets tho agitated brain
and puts out tho fires Of anxiety that have
been burning all tho week. Our bodies arc
seven day clocks, and unless on the seventh
day they are wound up, they ruI
down into the grave The Sabbath
was intended as savings bank; int
It We arc TO gather the resources upor
oil vrncE Nnr1
man who breaks the Sabbath robs his OWL
nerve, his own muscle, his own brain, hi
own bones. He dips up the wine Of his Owl
life and throws it away. He who breaks the
Lords day gives q mortgage to disease anC
death upon his entire physical estate, and a
the most unexpected moment that mortgage
viii be foreclosed, and the soul elected from
the premises. Every gland, and pore, anJ
cell, and finger nail demands the seventh
day for repose. The respiration Of the lungs
the throb of the pulse in the wrist, the motion
of the bone in its socket declare: "Bemembel
the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" Ther
are thousands of men who have had thei
lives dashed out against the colder
gates Of tho Sabbath A pronlinen
London merchant testides that thirt,
years ago he went to London. HI
says: Il have during that time watched
minutely, and I have noticed that tho mel
who went to business on the Lords day, O
opened their counting houses, have, withou
a single exception, como to failure"
prominent Christian merchant in Bostoi
SAYS: II find it don't pay to work on Sunday
When / was andlns "a s+iaefln on Lon.
wharf there,emies perishl loade'
their vessels on IT, T Is ecg;s keeping
their men busy from 1uJ.S-. y4ul ochight, On
it is my observation that tht,ee themselve
came to nothing-these merchants-and thei
children came TO nothing. 1t doesn't pay,
ho says, 'to work on tho Sabbath"
Row THE SABBATH BREAKERS END.
appeal to your observation. Where or
the mon who twenty years ago were Sabbat
breakers and who have been Sabbat
breakers over sincof Without q single exceI
ton, You viii tell e, they have como eithe
TO financial or to moral beggary defy 20
to point out q single exception, and you ca
take the whole world for your field. 1t he
either been a financial or moral defalcatio
In every instance. Six hundred and fort
physicians in London petition parlamen
saying, eve must have the sabbath obeyeC
Wecannot have health in this city and in th
nation, unless the Sabbath is observed" Thos
in our own country have given evidence on th
same side. Tho man who takes down the shu
ters Of his store on the Sabbath takes down q
curse Of Almighty God. That farmer wh
cultures his ground on the Sabbath day rais'
a crop of neuralgia, and of consumption, an
OF DEATH A farmer said; Il defy your Chri
tian Sabbath. win raise a Sunday crop
50 he went to work and plowed the groun
on Sunday, and narrowed it on Sunday, an
0 he planted corn on Sunday, and he reapc
the corn on Sunday, and he gathered it int
the barn on Sunday. "There" he says,
have proved to you that all this idea about
fatality accompanying Sabbath work is
perfect sham Ny corn is garnered and Q
Is well" But before many weeks passed Il
Lord God struck that barn with his igh
nings, and away went the Sunday crop. S
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