The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23

The good we must prepare to welcome, the
bad we must prepare to shun. The attempt
will again be made in 1892, as In 1876
to break up our American Sao6aths'
That attempt was made at the Phila-
delphia Centennial, but was defeated.
The American Sabbath is the best kept
Sabbath on earth. We do not want it
broken down, and substituted in the place
thereof the Brussels Sabbath, the Vienna
Sabbath the ST. Petersburg Sabbath or any
of the foreign Sabbaths, which are no Sab
baths at all. I think the Lord is more than
generous in asking only fifty-two days out of
fhe as5 for His service. You let the Sabbath
go and with twill 60 your Bible, and after
that your Liberties, and your children or your
grandchildren will be here in America under
q despotism as bad as in those lands where
thew turn the Lords day into wassail and
froiic.
Among those who come there Will pe, as at
other eIpositions lordly people. who VIII
bring their vices with them. Among the
Dukes and Duchesses and Princes and
Princesses of other lands are some OF the
best men and women of all the earth. he,
member Earl Of Kintore, Lord Cairns and
Lord Salisbury. But there IS snoopery
and flunkeyism in American. society that
runs after grandee, a Duke, Lord or
Prince, though he may be walking laza-
retto and his breath plague. 1t makes
the fortune of some Of our queens OF
society to dance one cotillion with one OF
these princely lepers Some people cannot
GET their hat off quick enough when they see
Such foreign Lord approaching, and they do
not care for the mire into which they drop
their knees as they bow to worship Leu no
splendor of pedigree or any Pomp and para
phernaIia of circumstan make him attrac-
tive. There is only one set OF Ten Com
nlandments that ever heard OF, and no class
of men or women in all the world are excused
from obedience to those laws written by I'm
ger of lightning on the granite surface OF
Mount Sinai. Surely we have enough
American vices without making any drafts
upon European vice for 1892.
BY this sermon I would have the nation
made aware Of its opportunity and getready
to improveit, and Of some perils and get
ready to combat them. rejoice to believe
that the advantages will overtop everything
in that worlds fair. What an introduction
to each other of communities, of states, OF
republics, of empires, Of zones, OF hemls-
pheresl What doors of information will be
swung wide open for the boys and girls now
on the Threshold! What national and in
ternational education! What crowning
of industry with sheaves Of grain, and
what imperial robing Of her with en-
broidered fabrics! What scientific ap-
paratus! What telescopes for the infinitude
above and microscopes for the infinitude be
meath, and instruments to put nature to the
torture until she tells her last secret! What
a display of the munifcence of the God who
has grown enough wheat to make loaf OF
good bread large enough for the human race,
and enough cotton to stocking every foot
and enough timber to shelter every head,
making it manifest that it is not Gods fault,
but either mans oppression or Incidence or
dissipation if there be any without supply.
Under the arches Of the chief building Of
that exposition let capital and labor, too long
estranged, at last be married, each taking
the hand of each in pledge of eternal fidelity,
while representations OF all nations stand
round rejoicing at the nuptialS, and saying:
put asInder.1 Then snail the threnody or
the needle-woman no longer be heard:
Work. work, work!
Work, work, work!
Till the eyes are heavy and dim.
Seam and gusset and band,
Band and gusset and seam,
Till over the buttons fell asleep,
And sew them on In dream.
o, Christian America! Make ready for the
grandest exposition ever seen under the sun!
Have Bibles enough bound. Have churches
enough established. Have scientific halls
enough endowed. Have printing presses
enough set up. Have revivals Of religion
enough in full blast. I believe you Will.
sHosanna to the Son of David! Blessed Is he
that cometh in the name Of the LordT
Through the harsh voices OF our day
low, sweet prelude finds its wayi
Through clouds OF doubt and creeds OF rear
light is breaking calm and clear.
That song of love- now low and far,
Ere long shall swell from star to star;
That light, the breaking day which tips
The golden splred An""1lypse!