Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-26

vessels on the Sabbath day, keeping Their
men busy from morning till night, and i
is my observation that they themselves
came to nothing-these merchandising
their children m to nothing. II
doesn't pay" he says, Ito work on the
Sabbath"
appeal to your observation. Where
are the men who twenty years ago were
Sabbath breakers, and who have been
sabbath breakers ever since? Without
a single exception. you will tell me, they
have come either to financial or mora
beggary. defy you to point out a single
exception, and you can take the whole
world for field. 1t has either been q
financial or moral defalcation in every
instance. Six hundred and forty ply
stefan in London petition parliament,
saying: We must have the Sabbath
obeyed. We can not have health 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 OF
Almight God. That farmer who cultures
his ground On the Sabbath day raises a
crop of neuralgia, and of consumption,
and of death. A farmer said: II defy
your Christian Sabbath. l will raise a
Sunday crop" So he went to work and
plowed the ground on Sunday, and har-
rowed it on Sunday and he planted corn
on Sunday, and he reaped the corn on
Sunday, and he gathered it into the barn
Sunday. There" he says. Il have
proved to you that all this idea about a
fatality accompanying Sabbath work is a
perfect sham. My corn is garnered, and
all is we'll" But before many weeks
passed the Lord God struck that barn
with his lightning, and away went the
Sunday crop.
So great is the moral depression coming
upon those who toll upon the Sabbath
day, that you may have noticed Or you
have not, ! call your attention to the
fact(, that in cases where the public in
tcrest demands Sabbath toll the moral de
preston is SO great that there are but very
few who can stand il. For instance, the
police service, without which not one OF
our houses would be safe-there are very
few who can stand the pressure and temp
tation of it. In London, where there are
), 900 policemen, the statistic is given
that in one year 92l of that 1000 were
dismissed, 523 were suspended, and 2,492
were fined. Now if the moral depression
be SO great in occupations that are posi-
lively necessary for the peace and pros
perity OF society, | ask you what must be
the moral depression in those cases where
there is no necessity for Sabbath work,
and where a man chooses worldly bust
ness on the Lords day just because he
likes il or wants to add TO his emolu-
ments? During the last war it was found
out that those public works which paused
on the seventh day turned out more wal
material than those which worked al.
the seven days. Mr.. Bagnall, a promi
nent iron merchant, gives this testimony
." find we have fewer accidents in oul
establishment, and fewer Interruptions
now we observe the Lords day; an! al
the close of the year, IOw that VIC keeI
the Sabbath, | find that we turn out more
iron and have larger profits than any yeal
when we worked all the seven days
The fact is. Sabbath made ropes viii
break, and Sabbath-madc shoes Will leak
and Sabbath-madc coats Will rip, anc
sabbath made muskcts Will miss fire, ano
Sabbath occupations will be blasted. A
gentleman said: Il invented a shuttle OF
the Lords day. was very busy, 50
made the model ON the Lords day
% very DAs9 was hu'lHs
the week that | had to occupy
many Sabbaths, 1t was a great success
| enlarged my buildings: / built new faC
tories, and made hundreds Of thousand
of dollars; but | have to tell you that al
the result OF that work on the Sabbatl
has been to- me ruin. ! enlarged IN,
BUILDINGS, ! made d great many thousand
Of dollars, but / have lost all, and
~ =. - tL-I $50 - chat A,,nt.-r ah,tF
tie" will place in two companies tn
men in this community who break th
sabbath and the men who keep ii, am
then TASK You who are the best friend
of society? Who are the best frienus Q
morals? Who have the best prospects 70
this world? Who have the best for Tia
world that is to Gomez
Sabbath morning comes in the house
hold. ] suppose thar the mere philos
pher would say that the sabbath ligh
comes in a wave current, just like an
other light bat ii does not seem 80 to mt
1t seems as if il touched the eyelids NOR
gently, and threw a brighter glow ON III
mantel ornaments, and cast a bette
cheerfulnCss on the faces of the children
and threw a supernatural glory over tn
old family Bible. Hail Sabbath ligh'
We rejoice in IT. Rest ONE in throug
the window, or il leaps up from TIE fire
or it rolls out in the old arm chair, or
catches up the body into ecstasy, an
swings open before the soul the twelv
gates which are twelve pearls. The ba
Of the unopened warehouse the hinge
of the unfastened store window, the quiC
OF the commercial warehouse seem (
say: This is the day the Lord hat
made Rest for the sewing woman
with weary hands, and aching side. an
sick heart. Rest for the overtasked WORK
man in the mine, or out on the wall, {
in the sweltering factory. Hang up tn
plane, drop the ad2e, slip the band froi
the wheel. put out the fire. Rest for tn
body, for the mind, and for the soul.
Welcome, sweet day Ct rest,
That saw rhe Lord arise:
Welcome 20 this reyiving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes"
Again ! remark, we ought 10 have ]
the Sabbath the joy Of domestic rcunlo
aud conservation. There are some Vcr
good parents who have the faculty
t making the Sabbath a great gloon
Their children run up against the wall {
a parental lugubriousncss on That da,
They think Of everything bad on th'
4. day. 1t is the worst day To them, real,
a in al the week. There are persons VIII
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