The Penn's Grove record., 1889-02-02
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
sundays, Bright or Daleful.

.and call the Sabbath a delight" lisa. IS 10.
THERE is an element Of gloom strik-
inc through all false religions. Pagan
is q brood of horrors with blind
fate. Mohammedanism promises moth
INC to those exhausted with sin In this
world but an eternity OF the same
passiopal indulgeuces. But God in
that our religion should have
the grand characteristic OF cheerfulness.
st. Paul struck the keynote when be
said; "Rejoice everm0re, and again l
saw. rejoice" This religion has no
for the feet; 1t has no hooks for
the shoulder; it has no lorg pilgrimages
to take; it has no funeral-pyres upon
which 10 leap; 1t has no Juggernauts
before which to fall
ITS GOOD CHEER
Is symbollzed in the Bible by the
of waters. and the redolence
Of lilies. and the sweetness of music,
and the hilarities Of a banquet. A
choir Of seraphim chanted at It's Undue
ton, and pealing trumpet, and waving
palm, and tapping wing Of archangel
are to celebrate its triumphs. Itbegan
its chief missi.n with the shout: "Glory
to God in the highestln and it will
its earthly mission with the as.
criptiOn: .'HalleluJah, for the Lord
God omnipotent reigneth!"
But men have said that our religion
is not cheerful, because We have such a
doleful Sabbath. They say: "You can
have your religious assemblages, and
long faces, and your shifting cant,
and your psalm-books, and your Bibles:
give us the Sunday excursion, and the
and the convlvial laughter.
have SO much joy that we want to
spread it all over the seven days OF the
week, and you shall not have n OF
our days of worldly satisfaction for re-
licious dolefulness." / want to show
these men-if there are any such In the
house this morning-that they are I'M
der a great deluslon, and that God in-
tended the ffty-two Sundays of the
year to be hung up like bells In a tower
a perpetual chime of joy and
glory and salvation and heaven; for !
want you to carry out the idea Of the
text. sand call the Sabbath a delight"
l remark, In the first place, we are to
end in this day the JOY Of
HEALTHY REPOSE.
In this democratic country we all have
to work-some with hand. some with
brain, some with foot. If there is in
all this house a hand that has not, dur
ing the past year, been stretched forth
to some kind of toll, let it be lifted.
Not one, not one. You sell the goods.
You teach the school. You doctor in
the sick-room. You practice at the
bar. You edit a newspaper. You tan
the hides. You preach the gospel.
You mend the shoes. You sit at the
shuttle. You carry the hod of bricks
up the ladder on the wall. And the
one occupation is as honorable as the
other, provided God calls you to it. l
care not what you do, if you only do it
well But when Saturday night comes,
you are faded and worn. The hand
cannot 50 skillfully manufacture; the
eye cannot see as well; the brain is not
SO clear; the judgment is not SO, well
balanced.
A prominent manufacturer told me
that he could see a difference between
the goods which went out of his estab-
lishment on Saturday from the goods
that went out on Monday. He said:
'eThey were very different indeed.
Those that were made in the former
part of the week, because of the rest
that had been previously given, were
better than those that were made in
the latter part of the week, when the
men were tired out" The Sabbath
comes, and it bathes the soreness from
the limbs, quiets the agltated brain,
and puts out the fires Of anxiety that
have been burning all the week. OuI
bodies are seyen-day clocks, and unless
on the seventh day they are wound up,
they run down into the grave. The
Sabbath vas
INTENDED AS A sAvINGs-BANK:
into it we are 10 gather the resources
upon which we are to draw all the
week. That man who breaks the Sab
bath robes his own nerve, his own
muscle, bis own brain, his own bones.
He dips up the wine Of his own life,
and throws it away. He who breaks
the Lords day gives q mortgage to
disease and death upon his entire physl-
cal estate, and at the most unexpected
moment that mortgage will be fore
closed, and the soul elected from the
premises. Every gland and pore and
cell and finger-nail demands the seventh
day for repose. The respiration of the
lungs, the throb of the pulse in the
wrist, the motion, of the bone in Its
socket declare: Remember the Sab.
bath day, to keep it holy"
There are thousands of men who
have had their lives dashed out against
the golden gate Of the Sabbath. A
prominent London merchant testi6es
that thirty years ago he went to Lon.
don, He says: 81 have during that
time watched infinitely, and l have no.
ticed that the men who went to bust.
ness on the Lords day, or opened theii
contingencies have, without a single
exception, come to failure" A prom
inent Christian merchant in Boston
says: II find it doesn't pay to work
on Sunday. When 1 was a boy l no.
ticed, out on Long Wharf, there were
merchants who loaded their vessels on
the Sabbath day, keeping their mer
busy from morning till night; and it II
my observation that they themselve:
came to nothing-these merchants-and
their children came 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 beer
Sabbath-breakers ever since? Without
a single exception, you tell me, the,
have come either 10 financial or t.
moral beggary. I defy you to point
out a single exception, and you car
take the whole world for your field. i
has either been a financial or
MORAL DEFALCATION
in every instance. Six hundred ant
forty physicians in London petition
Parliament, saying: 1--WE must havt
the Sabbath obeyed. We cannot have
health in this city and in this nation
unless the Sabbath is observed" Thost
in our own country have given evidence
ON the same side. The man who take.
down the shutters of his store on The
Sabbath takes down the curse Of AL
mighty God. That farmer who cul.
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