Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-02-22
THE DAYOF JOY.
kor a T1ME FOR Substitutes.
What Telmage Would Havo the Sab,
a. bath BE.

Through all false religions. Pagenism is 8
brood OF horrors Tho god OF Copfudm
frowned upon its victims with blind fate
Mohammedanism promises nothing to those
exhausted with sin 10 this world but an
eternity OF the same passional indulgeuces
But God intended that our religion should
st. Paul struck the keynote when no said,
"Rejoice evermoro. and again 1 say, re
5oice." This religion has no spikes for the
Feet; 1t has no hooks for the shoulder; it has
no long pilgrmagcs to take; it has no funer-
al-pyres upon which TO leap; it has no jug.
gernauts before which to fall Its good cheer
is symbolized in the Bible by the brightness
of waters, and the relolence of lilies, and the
banquet. A choir of seraphim chanted Mt its
induction, and pealing trumpet, and waving
palm, and Tapping wing OF archangel are to
mission with the shout: "Glory to God in
the highestr' and 1t will close its earthly
mission with the ascription: "Hallelujah, for
the Lord God omnipotent reignethI'
But mon have said that our religion is not
cheerful. because NO have such a doleful Sab
bath. They say: "You can have your re.
ligious assemblages, and your long faces, and
your smiling cant, and your psalm books,
and your Bibles Give us the Sunday excur-
sion, and the horse.raco, and the convivial
laughter. We have SO much joy that we
want to- spread it all over the seven days of
days of worldly satisfaction for religious
doiefulness." l want to show these men-if
there are any such in the house this morning
that they arc under great delusion, and
that God intended the fifty-two Sundays of
the year to no hung up like bells in a tower,
beating perpetual chino Of Joy, and glory,
and salvation, and heaven; for want you to
carry out the idea of the text, land call the
Sabbath n delightn
remark, in the first place, We arc to find
IN this day the joy of healthy reposo. In
this democratic country VIC all have TO
work--sone with hand some with brain,
fhara ict ,,a ~, 30 l,n,,.
q hand that has not, during tho past year,
been stretched forth to some kind of toll, let
1t be lifted. Not ono, not one. You sell tho
goods You teach the school, You doctor
in the sick room. You practice at the bar.
You edit Newspaper. You tan the hides.
You preach tho Gospel. You mend the shoes
You sit ut the shuttle. You carry tho hod
of bricks up the ladder on tho wall. And
other, provided God calls you to it. caro-
not what You do, II you only do 1t well. But
U when Saturday ssu.n night comes you arc jaded
akillfully manufactures; the eye cannot
SEQ as well; the brain is not SO clear;
the Judgment is not so well balanced. A
prominent manufacturer told mo that lie
could see difference between the goods
which went out Of his establishment on Sat
nrday from the goods that went out on Mon
day. He said; "They 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 TINT were made in tho latter part Of the
week, when the mon were tired OUT Tho
Sabbath comes, and il battles the soreness
from the Imsi Ouiets the agitated BRAIN
ana puts out the frec of anxiety TINT have
been burning all the week. Our bodies nrc
sovo.i, day clocks, and unless on tho seventh
aay they are wound up, they run down into
savings bank: into it we are to gather the re-
sources upon which We to draw all tho
week That man who breaks the Sabbath
roos ms own nerve, his own mIscle, his own
br@in, his own bones. He dips up the wine
OF his own life and throws il AWAY Ho
who breaks the Lords dny gives mortgage
TO disensc ana death upon his entire physical
estate, and Mt the most unexpected moment
that mortgage will DO foreclosed, and the
soul elected from the premises. Every gland,
and pore, and cell, and finger-nail demands
The seventh day for repose. Tho respiration
wrist. the motion of the bono in its socket
declares: Remember the Sabbath day TO
Keep it holy.n There nro thousands of men
who have had their lives dashed out against
Dent London merchant testifies that thirty
years ago hc won't to London. lie SAYS; II
have during that time watched infinitely.
md l have noticed that tho men WHO
day, or opened their counting houses,
have, without single exception,
come to failure" prominent Christian
merchant in Boston says: 81 find it don't pay
L W. i
noticed out on Long Island there were mer-
III mo loaded their vessels OH the Sab
Fly, keeping their men busy from
until night, and it is my observa-
they themselves came to nothing
4rchents-and their children came To
Is It doesn't pay" he says. ito work
Il al to your observation. Where are
S& a&8 VINO twenty years ago were Sab
Sy3' 'sfI eakers, ana who have been Snbbnth
= over since? Without a single ex-
. sssla You will tell me, they have come
financial or to moral beggary.
8p to point out single exception, and
|$$5}3s1afc3 E;2 take the whole world for your
has either been II financial or moral
= Ks n on in every instance. Six hundred
3 physicians in London petition Par
Is 3a saying: 1--WE must have the Sab
>eyed. We can not have health
city and in this nation un-
Sabbath is observed" Those
i own country have given evi.
y the same side Tho man who takes
10 shutters of his store on the Sabbath
Z wn the curse of Almighty God.
Il III fmer who cultures his ground on the
RI "a day raises crop of neuralgia, and
mpton, and of death. A farmer
me- II defy your Christian Sabbath. /
5l' he Sunday crop" So he went to
# rlcwed the ground on Sunday. and
L it ON Sunday, and ho planted corn
IA 3 BY and he reaped the corn ON Sunday,
s IS II thered it into the barn on Sunday.
s & ~ says, II have proved to you that
E A about fatality accompanying
w n 2brk is n perfect sham. My corn
t3& and all is WE'LL" But before
tt$fII3s Is b, passed the Lord God struck that
p 81 ND lghtnings, and away went tho
SS is the moral depression coming
III who toll upon the Sabbath day,
q Aay have noticed if you havo not
~ pour attention to the fact tha3 in
q here the public interest demands
m = III Toll the moral depression is SO great
y: vi re are but very few who can stand
Instance, the police service, without
<! lot one OF our houses would be SAFE
: <<Ssyery few who can stand the e.es.
fI5t5 1mptation of it. In London, where
No thousand policemen, the sta.
s. q en- that in one year nine hundred
hone IF that five thousand were
nj re hundred and twenty. three
SAnded aud two thousand. foui
f ii ninety-two were fined. Now, q
81 IMPRESSION is SO great in occupa
6re positively necessary for tn,
: anu Prosperity OF society, ask vol
IS e1nust be the moral depression in thos,
: ~ here there is no necessity for Sabbath
II and where man chooses worldly bust
Nl,aV lfo latr L.