The Penn's Grove record., 1889-02-02

garnered, and all is WE'LL" But before
many weeks passed the Lord God struck
that barn with His l~ightnings, ana
away went the, Sunday crop.
sABBATH-KEEPINa PAYS.
During the last war, it was found Out
that those public works which paused
on the seventh day turned out more
var material than those which worKed
all the seven days. Mr.. Bagnali. Q
prominent iron merchant, gives this
testimony: 81 find we have fewer acci-
dents in our establishment and fewer
Interruptions, now we observe the
Lords day; and at the close OF Tue
year, now that we keep the Sa0bath, l
find we turn 9nt more iron ana nav
larger profits than any year when we
worked all tile Seven days" The fact
is, S~abbath-made ropes will break, and
Sabbath-made shoes will leak, and Sab
bath-made coats will rip, and Sabbath
made muskets will miss fire, and sab
bath occupations will be blasted. A
gentleman said: ! 81 invented a shuttle
on the Lords day. 1 was very busy, SO
I made the model Of that new shuttle
on the Lords day. So very busy was
during the week that l bad to occupy
many Sabbaths. 1t was a great sue
cess. l enlarged my buildings: l bull
new factories, and made hundreds OF
thousands Of dollars; but have TO tell
you that all the result of that work on
the Sabbath has been, TO me, ruin. 1
enlarged my buildings, l made a great
many thousands Of dollars. but l have
lost all, and 1 charge IL to the fact or
that Sunday shuttle" l will place In
two companies the men In this COM
rnunity who break the Sabbath and the
men who keep it, and then l ask you
who are the best friends Of society,"
SABBATH IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
I suppose that the mere philosopher
would say that The Sabbath light comes
in a wave currekt, just like any other
light; but it does not seem so to me.
It seems as if it touched the eyellds
more gently, AMI threw a brighter glow
on the mantel ornaments, and cast a
better cheerfulness on the faces OF h
children, and threw a supernatural
glory over the old family Bible. HALL
sabbath light We rejoice in it. Rest
comes in through the window, or it
leaps up from the fire, or it rolls out In
the old armchair, or it catches up the
body into ecstacy y, and swings open be-
fore the soul the twelve gates which
are twelve pearls. The bar Of the un-
opened warehouse, the hinges of the I'M
fastened store window, the quiet Of the
commercial warehouse seem to say:
"This is the day the Lord hath made"
Rest for the sewing-woman, with weary
hands, and aching side, and sick heart.
Rest for the ovsrtasked workman in
the mine, or out on the wall, or in the
sweltering factory. Hang up the plane,
drop the adze, slip the band from the
wheel, put out the fire. Rest for the
body, for the mind, and for the soul.
"welcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lprd arise;
Welcome to this F~eviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes,
Again I remark, we ought to have
In the Sabbath the joy of
DoMEs4IC REUNION
and consecratit There are some
very good paier who have the faculty
of making the bbath a great gloom.
Their children p up against the wall
of parental luglI4 riousness on that day.
They are sorry Ewhen Sunday comes,
and glad when ct goes away. They
think of everything bad on that day.
1t is the worst day to them, really, in
all the week. There are persons who,
because they were brought up. in Chris
tian families where there were wrong
notions about theA Sabbath, have gone
out into dissipation and will be lost. A
man said to me: 81 have a perfect dis
gust for the Sabbath-day. l never saw
my father smile on Sunday. 1t was
such a dreadful day to me when Twas
a boy. l never got over 1t, and never
will" Those parents did not .'call the
sabbath delight,s' they made it a
gloom. But there are houses repre-
scented here this morning where the
children say through the week: 81
| wonder when Sunday will comel''
They are anxious to have it come. l
hear their hosanna in the house; / hear
their hosanna IN the school. God in
tended the Sabbath TO be especially
ADAY FOR THE FATHER.
The mother is home all the week. Sab
Hath day comes, and God says to the
father. who has been busy from Mon
day morning to Saturday night at the
store. or away from home; ''This is
YOUR day, See what you can do in
this little fleck in preparing them for
heaven, This day l set apart for you"
You know very we'll that there are
many parents who are mere suffers of
the household; they provide the food
and raiment; once in q while, perhaps,
they hear the child read a line or two
in the new primert or If there be a case
of especial discipline, m the mother
cannot manage 1t, the child Is brought
nm in the court-martial of the fathers
discipline and publ he'd. That is all
there is Of 1t. Mo scrutiny of that
Ichild's immortal interests, no realiZa-
ton of the fact that the child will soon
90 out in o world where there are gig
Iantic and Overwhelming temptations
that have swamped millions.
But in some household it is not that
way; the home, beautiful on ordinary
DAYS. is more beautiful now that the
sabbath has dawned. There is more
ijoy in the good morning." there is
more tenderness in.the morning prayer.
The father looks at the child, and the
child looks at the father. The little
one dares now to ask questions without
any fear of beingt answered: "Don't
bother mel must be of to the store"
Now the father locks at the child, and
he sees not merely the blue eyes. the
arcbe,, brow, the long lashes, the sweet
Ilip. He sees in that child a long line
Of earthly de~stinies; he sees that child
Ian unreasonable eternity. As he
touches that child, hesays: II won.
der what will be the destiny of this
Little one?n And while this Christian
father /, thinking and praying, the
sweet promise flows through his soul;
UOf such is the aingdom Of heaven. y
And he feels a joyifnot like that which
sounds in the danci, or is waited from
the froth of the wigecup, or that which
is like the cracking of thorns under a
pot but the JOY Of domestic reunion
and conservation.
ELEVEN FAMILIES.
I have some statistics that / would
HLa 10 give Won. A great manyp eople,