Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-14

| 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, in the
name Of Christ, my Maker and my Judge, that
your example will be more potential than any
instruction they get elsewhere; and If you dis
regard the Lords day yourself, or IN any wise
| throw contempt upon it. you are blasting your
children with an infinite curse. 1t is rough
| truth, know told in a rough way: but 1t is
Gods truth nevertheless. Your You , cnild oG may R 70
never get over the awful disadvantage OF hav-
| ing had Sabbath-breaking father or o
Sabbath-breaking mother: IL IS tine Joy or
| many of us that we can look back to an early
| home where God was honored, and when the
Sabbath came it was day of great consecra-
| tion and joy. We remember the old faces
around the table that Sabbath morning. Our
hearts melt when we think of those blessed as
sociations, and we may have been on and COM
| mitted many lndscretions and done many
wrong things; but the day will never come
when we forget the early nome in which Gods
day was regarded, and father and mother told
us to keep holy the Sabbath.
There is another way in which we can war
against the Sabbath-breakiDg usages OF the
country at this time. and that is by making our
houses of worship attractive and the religious
services inspiriting. plead not for gorgeous
audience chamber; plead not for grolned raft
ers or magnificent fresco; but do plead for
comfortable churches, home-lke cnurches-
places where the church-going population be
have as they. ought to. Make the church well
come 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
own house, but for the vast population OF our
great cities, who are treading on toward death,
with
NO VOICE OF MERCY
to arrest them. All! when the prodigal comes
into the church do not stare at him as though
he had no right to come. Give him the best
seat you can find for him. Sometimes man
wakes up from his sin, and he says: "l'll go to
the house of God" Perhaps he comes from
one motive, perhaps from another He finds
the church dark and the Christian people
frigid land there are no people on earth who
car be more frigid than Christian people when
they try) and the music is dull, and he never
comes again. Suppose one of these men enters
the church. AS he comes in he hears a song which
his mother sang when he was boy; he remem-
bers it. He sits down, and someone hands him
a book, open at
Jerusalem. my happy home,
Name ever dear to me.
"Yes" he SAYS 81 have heard that many
times" He sees cheerful Christian people
there, every mans face psalm of thanksgiv-
ing to God He says: "Do you have this so
every Sunday? 1 have heard that the house of
God was doleful place, and Christians were
iugubrious and repelling! | have really en-
again in the same place. Tears Of repentance
start down his cheek; he begins to pray; and
when the communion table is spread, he sits at
and some t ed reaches 5r over ana
didn't believe in such things" "Ah!" he says,
II have been captured. l came in one day, and |
l found you were all SO loving and cheerful |
here that l concluded would come among
you. Where thou goest will go; thy people |
shall be my people, and thy God my God. |
Where thou diest will die, and there will be
buried"
All! you can't drive men out of their sins, but |
you can coax them out-you can charm them
out.
would to God that we could all come to O |
higher appreciation of this Sabbath heritage! |
We cannot count the treasures of one Christian /
of the archangel of mercy. Oh, blessed Sab |
bath! blessed Sabbath! They scott great deal |
about the old Puritanic Sabbaths, and there is |
wonderful amount of wit expended upon that |
subject now-the Sabbaths they used to have in
New England,
l never lived in New England but I would |
rather trust the old Puritanic Sabbath. with all |
its faults, than this modern Sabbath, which is
last becoming no Sabbath at all. If our modern
shall produce rs stalwart Christian
character the old New England Purjtanic
Sabbatism, shall be satisfied, and shall be
surprised
Oh, blessed day! blessed day! I should like
70 die some Sabbath morning when the air is
FULL of church music and the bells are ringing.
Leaving my home group with dying blessing,
should like to look off upon some Christian
chanting the praises of God as
vent up to join the one hundred and forty and
our thousand and the thousands of thousands
standing around the throne of Jesus. Harki
hear the bell of the old kirk on the hillside of
heaven. 1t is a wedding bell for behold the |
Bridegroom cometh. 1t is a victor's bell, for
We are more than conquerors through Him
Who hath loved us. 1t is a Sabbath bell, for it
alls the nations of earth and heaven to ever
asting repose.
Oh when, thou city of my God,
Shall thy courts ascend?
Where congregations ne er break up,
And Sabbaths have no end.