The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-02-06
A DELIGHTFUL SABBATH.
Sermon by the Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage, D. D.
Tho Sabbath Should be n Delight-A DAY
Of Joy and Rest-The Savings Bank
for the Storing of Mental and
Phyeacal Forces


for the Storing of Mental and
Physical Forces-
tsA Bright Versus Doleful Sunday" was
the subject Of Rev. Dr.. Talmage's recent
sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. After
eSpousding appropriate passages OF Scrip
sure be gave out the hymn:
Welcome sweet day Of rest,
That saw the Lord arise"
The text was, And call the Sabbath do
lishtr-Isaiah lviit. 13. Dr. Talnase said:
-rrsSe Is an element Of gloom striking
through all false religions. Paganisn IS
brood Of horrors. The god Of Confuclus
frowned upon its victims with blind fate.
Eohamnedasism promises nothing to those
exhausted with sin in this world, but an
eteynity Of the same passioual indulgencles.
Bat God intended that our religion should
hsve the grand characteristic OF cheerful
ness. St. Paul struck the keynote when ne
aaiS: Rejoice evermore, and again 1 SaE
rcjoioe.'' This religion has no spikes for
the fees; it has no hooks for the shoulder;
L has DO long pnsrimages to take; 1t has no
fuaeral pyres upon which to leap; it has no
tsssernauts before which to fall. Its good
cheer IS symbolized in the Bible by the
brightness Of waters, and the redolence OF
iSAes, and the sweetness Of music, and the
ihilsriSes Of . banquet a choir OF seraphlm
.Shaated Ut its Induction, and pealln9
trumpet, and waving palm, and Tapping
wing Of archangel are to celebrate its trl-
Srsobs, It began its chief mission with the
sheus: stGlory to God in the hlShest'' ana
It VII close its earthly mission with the as
cr;ptioa: .HaIeluiah, for the Lord God
orrnipotent reignethl'
But men have said that our religion is not
cheerful, because we have such ooleful
Sabbath. They say: "Sou can have your
religious assemblaSes, aud your long faces
and your smiling cant, and your psalm
boells, and your Bibles. Give US the Sun
day excursion, and the horse race and the
eonviyisl laughter. We have so much JOY
that we want to spread it all over the seven
days Of the week, aud you shall not have
one Of our days Of worldly satisfaction for
reliyisrs dolefulness." ! want to show
these nen-if there are any such IN the
house this morning-that they are under
srea. delusicn, and that God intended the
Afty-two Sundays Of the year to be hung up
kke bells in tower, beating perpetual
chine Of JOY and glory ard salvation and
heaven; for I want you to carry out the
das Of the text, '1Aud call the Sabbath q
delight"
resaark, in the first place, we are to find
Sn this day the Joy Of healthy repose. In this
democratic country we all have to work
some with hand, some with orsin, some With
foot II there Is in all this ho0se hand
that has not, during the past year, been
stretched forth to some kind Of toll let it be
yes 5sso YET one nss co. Yeg sell sss g9gasss sss
SICK roen. You practice at the bar. You
edit q newspaper. You tan the hides. You
pssash the gospel You mend the shoes.
You ST at the shuttle. You carry the hod
as kicks up the ladder on the wall. And
tho oae occupation is as honorable as the
ether, provided God calls you to Il. I care
not what you do Il you only do it well. But
WHEN Saturday night comes you are jaded
aad voxu. The hand can not so sGinfully
manufacture; the eye can not see so well; :;
the brain Is not so clear; the judgment IS
not 70 weu balanced. A prominent maui
9oesarer told me that he could see differ
sacs between the goods which went out OF
his establishment on Saturday from the
aoo6s that went ont on Monday. BE said /:
<.Sney arc very different indeed. Those that
vera made Ia the former part OF the week,
because Of the restthat had been previously
eiyen, were better than those that were
nsnde IN the latter part Of tho week, when
tie nen were tired out" The Sabbath
comes, and 4 hathes the soreness from the
anhs, quiess the acitated brain, and
Bas ess the fires Of anxiety that
.anFs been Burning all the week. Our
bodies are ssyen-day clocks, aud un-
less oe the seventh day they are wound
40, they run down into the grave. The
Eshhath was intended as a savings bank;
isto It we are to gather the resources upon
which we are to draw all the week. That
1sau who breaks the Sabbath robs his own
aerve bis own muscle, his own brain. his
ogsa bo9es. He dips up the wine Of his
own life, and throws it away. He who
breaks the Lords day gives mortgage to
disease and death upon his entire physical
estate, and at the most unexpected moment
that mortgage will be foreclosed and the
soul elected from the premises. Every
gland, and pore, and cell. and fnger-nail de-
raands the seventh day Tor repose. The
respiration Of the lungs, the th-ob Of the
zplse is tie wrist, the motion Of the bone in
It's socses declare: Remember the Sab
tsth day to keep it holy" There are
thousands Of men who have had their lives
dashed out against the golden gates Of the
Sabbath. A prominent London merchant
testi6es that thirty years ago he went to
LoR6on- He says: 81 have dnrtng that
time watched minutely, and have noticed
tia. the men who went to business on the
LORDS day, or opened their counting houses
have, without q single exception, come to
faticre.'' a prominent Christian merchant
IN Boston says: ~ find it don't pay to
work on Sunday. When wAs boy,
noticed out on Long Wharf there were mer-
chants who loaded their vessels on the
Sabbath day, keeping their men busy from
morning till night, and it is my observation
that they themselves came to nothing
these nerchsnts-and their children came
to netting. It doesn't pay" he says, ITO
work on the Sabbath"
I appeal to your observation. Where are
the men who twenty years ago were Sab
bath breakers, and who have been Sabbath
breakers ever since? Without single ex-
ception you will tell me they have come
either to financial or to moral beggary. !
defy you to point out single exception, and
you can take the whole world for your field.
It has either been q financial OR moral defal
cation in every instance. Six hundred and
forty physicians in London petition Parlia-
aent, saying: s'We must have the Sabbath
obeyed. We can not have health in this city
and in this nation unless the Sabbath IS
Observed Those in our own country have
given evidence on the same side. The man
who takes down the shutters Of his store on
the Sabbath takes down the curse cf Al
,,ieh+- Goa That farmer who cultivates