Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-01-20
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A BRIGHT SUNDAY VERSUS A DOLE
eUl SUNDAY.

Reiigions-The Christian Religion should
Ba,. the Grand Chsracseristic Of Cheer.
tuinss.-A Word 20 Long Faced People.
BROOKLYN. Jan. 13.-The Rev. 7.
De Wit Talmage, DID,, preached to-
day on "A Bright Sunday versus a
Doleful Sunday" After expounding
appropriate passages Of Scripture he
gave out the hymn:
Welcome. sweet day Of rea
That saw the Lord arse
The text was: "And call the Sabbath
o delight" Isaiah lviii, i3. DR.. Tai.
mage said:
There is an element Of gloom strik-
ing through all false religions. Pagan
ism is brood Of horrors The god OF
Confucius frowned upon its victims
with blind fate. Mohammedanism
promises nothing to those exhausted
with sin in this world but an eternity
Of the same passionaf lndulgences
But God intonded that our religion
should have the grand characteristic
Of cheerfulness. ST. Paul struck the
key note when he said: Rejoice ever
more, and again say. rejoice" This
religion has no spikes for the feet: il
has no hooks for the shoulder; il has
no long pilgrimages 10 take; il has no
funeral pyres upon which 10 leap; il
has no juggernauts before which TO
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 q banquet A choir Of
seraphim chanted at its induction,
and pealing trumpet and waving
palm, and tapping wing OF archangel
are TO celebrate its triumphs. II began
its chief mission with the shout:
GLORY TO God in the highestf" and il
will close its earthly mission with the
ascripion: "Hallelujah, for the Lord
God omnipotent reignethl"
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 your long faces. and your sniff
fling cant, and your psalm books, and
your Bibles. Give us the Sunday ex-
cursion, and the horse race, and the
convivial laughter. We have so much
JOY that we want 10 spread il all over
the seven days Of the week. and you
shall not have one Of our days of
worldly satisfaction for religious dole
fulness. want TO show these men-
If there are any such in the house this
morning-that they are under great
delusion. and that God intended the
fifty-two Sundays of the year 10 be
hung up like bells in tower, beating
a perpetual chime Of Joy and glory
and salvation, for ] want you 10 carry
out the idea OF the text. land call the
Sabbath adelight."
THE DoLEFUL SABBATH is AN kBoMI-
NATION.
remark, in the first place, we are
10 find in this day the JOY Of healthy
repose. In this democratic country
we all have 10 work-some with hand,
some with brain, some with foot III
there is in all this house a hand that
has not during the past year, been
stretched forth 10 some kind OF toll,
let il 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 eIit 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, il you only do il well. But
when Saturday night comes you are
jaded and worn. The hand cannot
80 skilfully manufacture; the eye can
not see as we'll the brain is not so clear
the Judgment is not 80 we'll balanced.
A prominent manufacturer told me
that he could see difference between
the goods which went out Of his estab-
lishment ON Saturday from the goods
that went out on Monday. He said
They were very different indeed.
Those that were made in the former
part of the week, because of the resi-
thatyhad 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 il bathes the soreness from
the limbs. Quiets the aQitated brain,
and puts out the fires OF anxiety tina,
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. The Sab
bath was intended as q savings bank
into II we are TO gather the resource,
upon which we are 70 draw all ths
week. That man who breaks the Sab
bath robs his own nerve. his own
muscle, his own brains, his own bonca
He dips up the wine OF his own life,
and throws Il away. he who breaks
the Lords day gives q mortgage %
disease and death upon his entire
physical estate, and at the most un.
expected moment that mortgage will
be- foreclosed, and the soul ejectedi
from the premises EVERY gland, and
pore, and cell, and finger nal demands
ths seventh day for rcposc. Tho rcs-
pirstion Of the lungs, the throb Of the
pulse In the wrist the motion OF 1hc
bono In its socket declare; ''kcm1m
Der the Sabbath day, 10 Keep i holf
There arc thousands OF men who have
had their lives dashed out against ne
golden gates Of Me Sabbath. Aprcsl,