Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-02-09

remark also. we are TO have in this day
the 5ov Of eternal Sabbet SIN. | do not he
lieve It possible for any Christian to spend
the LORDS day here without thinking OF
heaven There is something in the gathering
OF people in church on eartn 10 make one
think Of the rapt assemblaCe OF the skies.
There Is something N the song OF the Chris
tan Church 10 make one Think Of the song #
the elders before the throne. the harp SIS and
the trumyeters Of Col a~conDa9vInr ire
harmony. The light Of a better Sabbath
gilti~ the ton IF this. and earth and heaven
come within speaking distance q each other.
'hs 9ng Of trItrnrh waving backward AMI
forward now tossed VI Nv the Church q
'ar'h. now sent back by the Church Of
heaven.
Day ~ a. The week 'hn hes',
Fmh en- OF e,erne -e--
The Christian man stan!s aliant in il
figh-. HIS bereft heart raio oes al the
thou yft Of a country vice there i neither
4 coffin nor grave: Il : weary boiv CLOVIS at
the idea Of a land where tta-a are no bur
i"ns to carry. and no exhaustive journeys u
take. He eats the grapes Of Eshcol. He
stands upon tire mountain top and looks off
upon the promised land. He hears the call
Il tho eternal towers. and the tramp Of the
nImherle~s multitude with sins forgiven.
This is the dav which the Lord hath made.
Let us re DICE and be -la., in it. oh. We who
have been hunting for Sunday Pleasures in
he streat and on the river bank. and in The
houses III Ssn. / commend 10 Eftl Nus 40
day and holy service | do not invite Won
TO swallow a great hitterne>S or to carry a
heavy yoke hNt | invite Won 10 feel n body.
mind ard soul the thrill Of iov which God
has handed down in th- chal.ces Of the golden
: sabbath.
With what revuls on and with what pity
we must lool cut on that large class Of per
sons n on dav Who would throw diScredif
rron tho Lord day. There are two tn .ngS
! whlch C.rlS.I 81 rao0fa ought never 70 give
mn. the one i The Rlf1a he ~ hEr Is he Sab
tath. Take AWAY one. and you take both.
TAKE either, AMI farewell 10 christ Hanitv IN
this country. farewell 70 our ci.i! a~d rclig-
ious liberties. When they 20. all go lie who
has ever sp-nt Sunday in !ar=S. or Antwerp,
or Rome. if IL fa an int"llirnnt Christian.
will pray God that tn" dav viii never come
when the Sabbath nf Continental turoT sail
put its foot upon our shores. had a friend
in Svracnea who lived to be 100 wears of aga.
He saii 6tfre. n his ninety ninth wear:
went across the mountains in tie cary his
tory of this country. Sabbath morning came
We were ffvon1 the reach of civilization.
. Nv comrades were al going ont for an eyelr-
son. | said: No. won't 90 it j. S%uniav.'
WHY. thev laughed. They said We haven't
any Sunday here. ooh. YES sad Won
have brought it with me over tie noun
ta'ns
There are two or three WAYS in which we
ran war against Sahbath breaking uSageS in
this dav: and the first thing IS 10 get
our children right upon I'll $ sub ct, and
teach them that the Sabbath day Is the
hottest of all the DAYS. and the best and the
claddest Unless YOU teach your child under
the p~aternal roof to keep the Lords dav,
there are nine hundred and ninety chances
out of a thousand it will never learn to keep
the sabbath. Y@u may think to shirk re-
SnonSihilitv in the matter, and send Your
child to the Sabbath school and the house of
God: that will not relieve the matter. |
want to teliAvou. in the name Of Christ. nv
Maker and my Judge. that your example
will be more potential than any instruction
they get elsewhere. and if YOU disregard the
Lords dav Yourself. or in any " sc throw
contempt upon it, Won are blasting Your
children with an infinite curse. 1t IS a
rough truth. | know. tod in a rough way:
but it is Gods truth. nevertheless. our
child NAV 90 on to seventy or Ell hty wears
of age, but that child will never get over the
awful disadvantage of having had a sab
bath breaking father or a Sabbath breaking
mother. It is the iov of many of us thar we
can look back to an early home where God
was hon0red, and when tho Sabbath came it
was n dav of great conservation and low.
We remember the old faces around the table
that sabbath morning. Our hearts melt
when we think of those blessed associations.
and we may have been off and committed
many indiscrations and done many wrong
things. hnt the dav will never come when
we for ret the early home in which Gods dav
was regarded. anl father and mother tod
us to keep holy the Sabbath.
There is another WAY in which we can war
against the Sabbath-lrnaking usagps of the
country at this time. ani that is hv making
our houses of worship attractive and the re-
ligiouS services inspiring. | plead not for a
gorgeous audience chamber: plead not for
grolned ~rafters or magnificent fresrO, but [
do p'ead fer comfortat IL churches. home like
churches places where the church-going
population behave as they ought to. Make
the church welcome to all, however poorly
clad they NAV be. or whatever NAV have
hocn their IaSt hlStOrV. 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 treailnG on toward death
with. no voice of merry to arrest them.
All, when the prodigal comes into
the church, do not stare at him as
though he had no right to come. Give
HIM the teet seat YOU can find for him,
Sometimes a man wakes Gpfrom his n, and
he says: Ill 80 to the house OF Cod Fer
hans he comes from one motive, perhaps
from another. He finds the church dark
and the Christian people frleid and there
are no people on earth who can be more
frlgid than Christian people when they trvl,
and the music is dull, and he never comes
again. Suppose one Of thes" men enters
the church. A he comes in he hears a song
viii n his mother sang when he was n boy:
he remembers it. He sits down. ami some
one hands him u book, open at
"seru~ater, my happy home.
Name ever lear TO me.
eyes" tie saws. = have hear1 that many
times. He SEES cheerful Christian pops
there,every mas.,, tace a lsaln of thankeS'v
il. to to-. He says: % you have III. So
every sunday | nave card that the house
Of God was a do.etul place, AMI ChrIst.an'
were iugubrlousand repeilinc' really
| en- Dyed myself Inelcxt Sabbath the MAJ
: j again IN tie same pace. Tears of re
[ I~ntauec start down his q e-<: he begins +
/ ttay. AMI wien tie communion tiple j
: spread he SIS II stand >onk rne reaches oVt'
and says. I ana : .rir ID 10 iln'i you h@rt
2 | thought Won GIia@t believe IN such Things
a An he SAYS. Il nave teen captured
g came In ona CAV. anl found Won Were all $
5 loving and ch.rtul here 'fet ! conclaf-
. ! would com" among YOU Where tno,l 90 :
e VIII 20. thy peep" >ua ~ my r"oi.e. an
4 thu God mg GGi. Where thou d,est viii
d.. and IL. re W Il / +. buried
h Al yoa cant drive mtp out Of their aims
9 but you can coax them out You can cnar7l
Ii them out.
: wo>lli 70 Goi tina. " couti al come t
: q Il -her app:e alton 81 this Sitbath her.
: tag W Ian not count the treasures 9
ole Christian Satoath. ii >;reaIs out Owe
: Us th-t.o wncS II the archaHg.! OF mercy
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