The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-29

the soul the twelve gates which are twelve
pearls. The bar Of the unopened warehouse.
the hinges OF the unfastened store window,
the quiet of the commercial warehouse seem
70 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 overtasked workman in the
mine, or out on the wall, or in the swelter-
ing 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 Lord arise.
Welcome to this revivng bre1st.
And these reioiCsng eyes"
Again l remark, we ought to have in the
Sabbath the Joy of domestic reunion and
conservation. There are some very good pa
rents who have the faculty of making the
Sabbath great gloom. Their children run
up against the wall of parental lugubrious-
ness on that day. They are sorry when sun
day comes, and glad when it goes away.
they think Of everything bad on that daF.
IL IS the worst day TO them, really in all the
week. There are persons who. because they
were brought up in Christian families where
there were wrong notions about the Sab
bath, have gone out into dissipa-
ton and will be lost. A man said to me: Il
have perfect disgust for the Sabbath day.
L never saw my father smile on Sunday. IL
was such a dreadful day 10 me when was a
boy, never got over it, and never WILL
Those parents did not call the Sabbath a
delight they made it a gloom. But there
are houses represented here this morning
where the children say through the week: Il
wonder when Sunday will Gomez They are
anxious to have it come. / hear their no.
sanna in the house; l hear their hosanna in
the school, God intended the Sabbath to be
especially day for the father. The mother
Is home all the week Sabbath day comes.
and God says TO the father who has been
busy from Monday morning to Saturday
night at the store, or away from home; This
IS your day. See what you can do in this
lItle Hook in preparing them for heaven.
his day set apart for you.n You know
very well that there are many parents who
mere suffers Of the household; they
Sss1ths-fooa and raiment. ones in a
slIile, perhaps, they hear the child read a
line or two in the new primer; or if there be
case of especial discipline, and the mother
can not manage it, the child is brought up
in the court-martial of the fathers discipline
AMI punished. That is all there is of it. No
scrutiny of that child's immortal interests.
no retaliation of the fact that the child will
soon go out in a world where there are gigan-
tic and overwhelming temptations that have
swamped millions. But in some households
it is not that way; the home, beautiful on
ordinary DAYS, is more beautiful now that
the Sabbath has dawned. There is more
JOY 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 being an
swered: "Don't bother mel must he off to
the store" Now the father looks at the child,
and he sees not merely the blue eyes, the
arched brow. the long lashes, the sweet lip.
Il IN. that child a lOnn limo Of earthly
destinies; he sees in that child an immeasur-
ably eternity. As he touches that child he
SAYS: 81 wonder what viii be the destiny Of
this little oneF' And while this Christian
father Is thinking and praying, the sweet
promise flows through his SOUL "Of such is
the kingdom Of heaven" And he feels joy,
not like that which sounds in the dance, or is
waited from the froth Of the wine-cup, or
that which is like the cracking of thorns
under pot but the JOY Of domesticreuuion
and conservation.
Have l been picturiEg something that is
merely fanciful, or IS it possible for YOU and
and for me to have such a home as that! l
believe it is possible.
have a statistic that I would ike to give
YOU. A great many people, YOU know, say
| there is nothing in the Christian discipline of
a household. IN New Hampshire there were
| two neighborhoods-the one of six families,
the other of five families. The six families
disregarded the Sabbath. In time, five Of
these families we're broken up by the separa-
ton of husbands and wives; the other by the
father becoming a thief. Eight or nine Of
the parents became drunkards, one com
nitted suicide, and all came to penury
( OF some forty or fifty descendants,
about twenty are known to be drunkards
and gamblers and dissolute. Four or five
] have been in State prison. One fell IN a
4 duel Some are in the almshouse- Only one
became Christian and he after first having
been outrageously dissipated The other five
/ families that regarded the Sabbath were all
| prospered. Eight or ten Of the children are
/ consistent members Of the church. Some OF
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