The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-14

christian, and he after first having been
| outrageOuSly diSsipated. The other five
/ families that regarded tine Sabbath we're a..
! prospered Eight or ten of the chl,dren are
| consistent % embers of the church. Some
| of them ne anne officers in the church; one
! is a minister If the gospel; one is a mis-
| sOnarY to China No poverty amOug any
! of them. The homestead is now in the
| hands of the third generation. Those who
! have di have died in the peace of the
| gospel Oh, is there nothing in a house
! hold that remembers Gods holy dave Can
| it be possible that those who disregard tais
| holy commandment can be prosperei f'r
this life, or lave any good hope OF the life
that is to come.
Again, We ought to have in the Sabbath
the joy of Christian assemblage. Where
! are all those people going on the sabbath
| \ on see them moving up and down the
street. Is it q festal days people might as 3.
Has there bee1 some public edict com
manding the people to come forthf No,
they ara only worsnippers OF God who are
going TO their places Of religious service.
In what delicate scale shall | weigh the joy
of Christian co vocationa 1t gives bright
ness to the eye, and flush TO tine cheek,
and pressure to the hand, and thrill to
the heart. You see the aged man tottering
along on his staff through the aisle. You
see the little child led by the hand Of its
| mother. You look around and rejoice that
| this is Gods day, and this the co o.nmunion
of saints. lone Lord, one faith, one bap-
tism.N Some familiar tune sets the soul
a-quver a d quake with rapture. We
plunge into some old hymn, ana all our
cares aud anxieties are bathed Off. The glOr
ious Cos el transports US, the Spirit
descends, Jesus appears, and we feel the
bounding, spreading, electric JOY OF Chris
tion cOnvocation.
| look upon the church of God as one
vast hosanna. JOY dripping from the
baptismal font, Joy glowing in the sacra-
mental cup, JOY warbling in the anthem, joy
heating against the gate Of heaven with
hallelujah like the voice of mighty thunder
ings Beautiful for situation The joy Of
the whole earth is Mount Zion. 1t IS the
day and place where Christ reviews his
troops, bringing them out in comp MES aud
regiments and battalions, riding along toe
line examining the batte-torn flags Of past
combat, aud cheering them on to future
victories. Oh, the joy of christian assem-
blagel
/ remark also, we are to have in this day
the ioy of eternal Sab atlsm. | do not be-
lieve it possible for any christian TO spenl
the Lords day here without thinking of
heaven. There is something in the ga her
ing of people in church on earth TO make
one think of the rapt assemblage of the
skies. There Is something in the song Of
the christian church to make one think Of
the song of the elders before the throne, the
harpists and the trumpeterS of God accom-
panying the harmony. The light Of a bet
Ter Sabbath gilds the top of this, and earth
and heaven come within speaking distance
backward and forward, now tossed up by
the church Of earth, now sent back by the
church of heaven.
'DaV OF all the week the hest
Emblem Of eternal rest"
The Christian man stands radiant in its
light. His bereft heart rej1ices at the
thought Of country where there is neither
coffi nor grave. His weary body glows
at the idea Of a land where there are no bur
dens TO carry and no exhaustive journeys
to take. He eats the gra es of EshcOl He
stands upon the m Iuntain top and looks of
upon the promised land. He hears the call
OF the eternal towers and the tramp of the
numberless multitude with sins forgiven.
This Is the day which the Eord hath made.
Let MS rejoice and be glad in it. Oh, ye
who have been hunting for Sunday pleas
ures in the street, and on the river bank,
and IN the houses Of sin, l commend to you
this holy day nd holy service. / do not in
vite you to swallow great bitterness or to
carry a heavy yoke, but invite you 20 feel
in body, mind aud soul the thrill Of Joy
which God has ha ded down in the chalices
of the golden Sabbath.
With what eYulsian and with what pity
we must look out ON that large class of per
sons in our day who would thr W discredit
upon the Lords day. There are two things
which christian people ought never to give
up; the one is tho Bible, the other is the
Sabbath. Take away one, and you take
both. Take either, and farewell to chri}-
tianity in this country, fare we'll TO our civil
and religious liberties. When they 60 all
e. He who has ever spent Sunday in Paris,
or Antwerp, or Rome, If he be an intelli-
gent christian. will prav God that the day
will never come whea the Sabbath of c m
tinental Europe all put its foot upon our
shores. | had a friend in Sy acu,e who
lived to be one hundred years If age. He
said to me, in his ninety-ninth year: ~
won't across the mountains in the early hi -
tory of this country. Sabbath morning
came. We were beyond the reach Of
civilization. My com ades were all going
out for an excursion. | said: NO, | won't
60: it is Sunday. Why, t ev laughed
They said: we haven't any SUNDAY here
'Oh, yes / said, you have. brought it
with me over the mou1tails.'n
There are two or three ways in which we
can war against Saba th-breaking usage
in this day. and the first thing is to get our
children right upon this subject, and teach
them that the Sa Jbath LAY is TIE holisst 4
all the days, and the best and the gla ldest
u less you teach your child under the
paternal roof TO keep the Lords day, there
are nine hundred and ninety chances out of
a thousand it will never lsarn tn keep the
Sabbath You may think 10 shirk response
bity in the matter, and send your child to
the Sabbath school and tho house Of God ;
that viii not relieve the mat or. ! want to
tell you, in the name OF Christ, my Maker
and my Judge, that your exa nple will be
more p0te tai than any instruction they
get elsewhere; ana If you disregard the
Lords day your.ef, or in any wise throw
contempt upon II, you are blasting your
children with an i4flnite curse. II is a
rough truth, / know, told IN a rough
way: but 10 is Gods truth, nevertheless.
Your child may 20 on 10 seventy or eighty
years Of age, but That child VIII never get
over the awful disadvantage Of hay-
ing had a misunderstanding father o. a
Sabbath-breikIng mother. It Is tne joy 0
many of US that sc can look back 20 an
early home where God was honored, aud
when the Sabbath came il was a day Of
great conservation and Joy. We remember
the old faces around the table that Sa bath
morning. our hearts melt when we think
OF those blessed assocta ions and we may
have been of and commit ed many indIs-
cretious and done many wrong things, but
the day will never come when we forget the
early home IN Wi Gods day was re-
Rarded, and father and mother told us to
Keep holy the Sabbath.
There IS another way in which we can
war a " aingt the Sabbath brea XII ~ usages of