The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-25
THE LAY OF REST.
Or. TalmaGe Discourses on the
Christian Sabbath.
The Day One OF Rest For Weary Workers
The Sabbath Breakers End-Necessity
of Properly Raising Children
Cheerful Christians.

"A Bright Sunday versus Doleful Sun
day." The text was: "And call the Sab
u bath delight" Isaiah lviii. ID Dr. Tai
mage said: There is an element of gloon
striking through all false religions. Pagan
ism is brood of horrors. The god OF Con
fucius frowned upon its victims with BLIND
fate. Recommendation promises nothing
to those exhausted with sin in this world
nut an eternity of the same passional in.
dulRences. But God intended that oul
religion should have the grand character
istic of cheerfulness. ST. Paul struck the
keynote when he said: "Rejoice evermore
and again 1 say, rejoice" This religion
has no spikes for the feet; it has no hooks
for the shoulder; it has no long pilgrimages
totake; it has no funeral pyres upon which
toleap; it has no Juggernauts before which
70 fall. Its good cheer is symbolized in the
Bible by the brightness of waters and the
redolence Of lilies, and the sweetness OF
music, and the hilarities of banquet. A
choir of seraphim chanted at its introduce
ton, and pealing trumpet, and waving
palm, and Tapping wing of archangel are
to celebrate its triumphs. 1t began its
chief mission with the shout: ''Glory to
God in the highestw and it will close its
earthly mission with the ascription: "Hal-
!elujah, for the Lord God omnipotent
reignethw
But men have said that our religion is
not cheerful, because we have such a dole
ful Sabbath. They say: "You can have
your religious assemblages, and your long
faces, and your shifting cant. and your
psalm book and your Bibles Give us the
Sunday excursion, and the horse race and
the convivial laughter. We have so much
JOY that we want to spread it all over the
seven days of the week, and you shall not
have one of our days of worldly satisfac-
ton for religious doefulness" Iwant to
show these men-if there are any such in
the house this snorning-that they are I'M
der great delbsion, and that God intend
ed the fifty-tws Sundays of the year to be
hung up like bells in a tower, beating a
perpetual chime Of joy and glory and SAL
walton and Heaven; for 1 want you to
carry out the idea of the text, 'tand call
the Sabbath delight"
remark, in the first place, we are to
find 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 Ii there is in all this
house hand that has not, during 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 shut
tie. You carry tb6 bod of brick up the
ladder on the wah. And the one occupa.
ton is as honvable as the other, provided
God calls you to it. / care not what you
do. if you only do it well.
But when Saturday night comes YOU are
jaded and worn. The hand can not so
skilfully manu- facture; the eye can not see
SO well; the brain is not so clear: the
judgment is not so we'll balanced. A
prominent manufacturer told me that he
could see difference between the goods
which went out of his establishment on
Saturday from the goods that went out on
Monday. he said: They were very
ti4erens indeed. Those that were made |
in tina 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 battles |
the soreness from the limbs, quiets the |
agitated brain and puts out the fires of |
anxiety that have been burning all the |
week. Our bodies are seven-day clocks, |
and unless on the seventh day they are |
wound up they run down into the grave |
There are thousands of men who have |
had their lives dashed out against the |
golden gates of the Sabbath. A promi-
nent London merchant testifies that thirty |
years ago he went to London. He saws: |
81 have during that time watched minute.
ly and have noticed that the men who |
went to business on the Lords day or
opened their counting houses have, with
out single exception, come to failure"
A prominent Christian merchant in Bos-
ton says: Il find it don't paw to work on
Sunday. When / was boy l noticed out
on Long Wharf there were merchants
who loaded their vessels on the Sabbath
day, keeping their men busy from morn
ing till night, and it is my observation
that they themselves came to nothing
these merchants-and their children came
to nothing. 1t 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 sine Without
single exception, you tell me, they have
come either to financial or to moral beg
gary. / defy you to point out a single
and you can take the whole
world for your field. 1t has either been a
financial or moral defalcation in every
Instance. Six hundred and forty physi-
,ians in London petition Parliament, say
ng: ave must have the S abbath obeyed.
We can not have health in this city and in |
his Nation unless the Sabbath is OBJ
in, h., |
given evidence on the same side. The
nan who takes down the shutters of his (
tore on the Sabbath takes down the curse
# Almighty God. That farmer who cult I
Ires his ground on the Sabbath day raises '
crop of neuralgia, and of consumption {
md of death. A farmer said: 81 defy {
our Christian Sabbath. / will raise a I
sunday crop" So he went to work and !
Flowed the ground on Sunday. and har- |
owed it on Sunday, and he planted corn S
n Sunday, and he reaped the corn on G
sunday, and he gathered it into the barn i
n Sunday. I
''There," he says, 81 have proved to you
hat all this idea about fatality accom- {
anying Sabbath work is perfect sham. 4
fy corn is garne-ed, and all is WELL" But /
efore many weeks passed the Lord God C
truck that barn with his lightnings, and
way went the Sunday crop. I
So great is the moral depression coming a
pom those who toll upon the Sabbath day J
nat You may have noticed (if you have S
OF, call your attention to the fact) that a
/ cases where the public interest demands c
abbath toll the moral depression is so \
reat that there are but very few who can a
and it. For instance, the police service. v
itbout which none of our houses would {
3 safe-there are very few who stand the b
ressure and temptation of it. In London, C
here there are 5000 policemen. the sta q
sites Is piyen that in nna year OBJ Of that | q