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

u WV luillSS Wiltu ii lclldH I'NIlN
ought never TO give up; the II is thu
Bible. the other is the Sabbath. Take
away one and you take both. Take
either, and farewell to christianity in
this country, farewell to our civil and
religious liberties. When they go, all
90, He who has ever spent Sunday in
Paris. or Antwerp, or Rome, if he be an
intelligent christian, will pray God that
the day will never come when the Sab
bath OF continental Europe shall put its
foot upon our shores. had a friend in
Syracuse who lived to be II hundred
years Of age. He said to me i'll his
ninety ninth year: II went across the
mountains in the early history of this
country. Sabbath morning came. We
were beyond the reach of civilization.
My comrades were all going Out for an
excursion. | said: NO. ! won't go; 1t
is Sunday Why, they laughed. They
said, We haven't any Sunday here
oh, yes, | said. you have. l brought
il with me over the mountains.
There are two or three ways in which
we can war against Sabbath breaking
usages in this day; and the first thing is
to get our children right upon this sub
ject, and teach them that the Sabbath
dag is the hottest OF all the days, and the
best and the gladdcst, Unless you teach
your child under TIE pateln..i roof to
keep the Lords day, there are 500
chances out of 1000 it will never learn
to keep the Sabbath. You may think to
shirk responsibility in the matter, and
send your child to the Sabbath school
and the house Of God, that will not re-
lieve the matter. | want to tell you, III
the name OF Christ, my Maker and my
Judge, that your example will be more
potential than any Instructions they get
elsewhere; and if you disregard the
Lords day yourself, or in any wise
throw contempt upon it, you are blasting
your children with an infinite curse. II
is a rough truth. ! know, told 10 a rough
way; but ii is Gods truth, nevertheless.
Your child may go on To seventy or
eighty years Of age, but that child Will
/ never get over the awful disadvantage OF
having had "A Sabbath breaking father or
a sabbath breaking mother. Ii is the
Joy Of many Of us that we can LOOK back
TO an early home where God was hon
ored, and when the Sabbath came il was
q day OF great conservation and JOY. we
remember the old faces around the table
that Sabbath morning. Our hearts melt
when we think Of those blessed GssOcia-
tons, and we may have been Oil and
committed many indiscretiOns and done
many wrong things, but the day Will
never come when we forget the early
home in which Gods day was regarded,
and father aud mother tod us 10 keep
holy the Sabbath.
There is another way in which we can
war against the Sabbath bre2E & Usages
Of this country at this time, aud that is
by making our houses OF worship attrac-
tive and the religious services inspiritlng.
! plead not for a gorgeous audience
chamber, | plead not for grained rafters
or magnificent fresCO, but do plead t0I
| comfortable churches, home-likc churches
places where the church going pOpula-
ton behave as they ought to. Make the
church welcome TO all, however poorly
clad they may be. or whatever may have
been their past history; for ! think the
church OF God is not SO much made for
YOU who could have churches in your OWL
house, but for the vast popula.
ton Of cur great cities, whe
are trealing on toward death
with no voice of mercy 10 arrest them
All when the prodigal comes into tn'
church, do not stare at him as though b.
had no right TO come. Give him the bes
seat YOU can find for him. Sometimes
man wakes up from his sin, and be says
IN 20 the house 0f God Perhaps nc
comes from one motive, perhaps another
lie Gld8 the church dark and The Christ
ian people friQid land there are no PEG
pie on earth who can be more frIgid lh9i
Christian people when they try) oud The
music is dun. and he never comes again
Suppose one Of these men enters th'
church. As he comes in he hears a SONG
which his mother sang when he was
hoy; lie remembers il. He sits down
and SOME one hands him a book, open a
Jerusalem, my happy home,
Name ever dear 70 me-
Yes" he says, Il have heard tina
many times lie sees cheerful Christian
people there, every mans face a psalm o
thanksgiving to God. lie says: DO ol
have this 50 every Sunday? / hav
heard that the house Of God was "a dole
: full place, and christians were lugubriou
and repelling! have really enjoyed my
sclfr' The next Sabbath the man j
again in the same place. Tears Of r.
pentance start down his check; lie begin
to pray: and when the communion tabl
| is spread he sits at ii, and rome on
: reaches over and says: II an surprise
to find you here. ! thought you didn
believe in such things An he say
Il have been captured. I came in or
day, and found You were al so lovrr
, and cheerful here that | concluded
would come among you. Where thc
goest I will go; thy people shall be N
, people, and thy God my God. Whe
, thou dlest VII | die, and there will !
buried
I All you cant drive men out Of the
sins, tut you can cas- them out--yo
can chain them out.
A would to God that we could al CON
? . . higher appreciation Of this Sabbat
heritage, They scoff a great deal 9h0t
z the old PuritGnic ~Sabbaths, and there ~
, woncrfui amount of wit expended up0
! that subject noW-the Sabbaths the
used 40 have ia New England. | nev'
lived in New England, but | woul
rather trust the old PGritanic Sahbati
with a}l it3 faults, than this modern Sa'
bath, which il fast becoming no Sabbat
~ al. r. our modern Sabbatism sha
produce as s.alwart Christian charact
n as the old New England Puritanic Sa
! batism, ] shall be satisfied, and shall
5 surprised.