The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-14
SUNDAY ASADAY OF REST
TALMAGE ON TIE BRIGHT VERSUS
THE DOLELUL SABBATH.


cial or Moral Defalcation Declared
in Store for Sunday Toilers.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 13.-The Rev. r. Dewitt
Talmage, d. D., preached to-day on "a
Bright Sunday versus a Doleful Sunday.
After expoundlug appropriate passages of
scripture, be gave out the hymn:
''Welcome. sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise"
The text was: "And call the Sabbath a
delight. Isaiah lyiii., Is. Dr. Talmage
said:
There is an element Of gloom striking
through all false religions. Paganism is
| a brood of horrors The god Of
Confucius frowned upon its victims with
blind tate. Mohammedanism promises
nothing to those exhausted with sin in this
world but an eternity OF the same passional
indulgences But God intended that our
religion should have the grand characters
tic Of cheerfulness. st. Paul struck the
| keynote when he said: "Rejoice evarmore,
and again say, rejoice" This religion has
no 8 likes for the feet; it has no hooks for
the shoulder; it has no long pilgrimages to
| take; it has no funeral pyres upon which to
| leap; it has no Juggernauts before which to
, fall. Its good cheer is symbolized in the
| Bible by the brightness Of waters, aud the
iGublSbCe u AlIcSy anu bbt oNcttLtoS Vi
music, and the hilarities Of banquet. A
choir Of seraphim chanted at its induction,
and pealing trumpet, and waving palm,
| and Tapping wing of archangel are to cele-
| brate its triumphs. II began its chief mis-
sion wi tn the shout: GLORY to God in the
highest" and it will close its early mission
with the ascrption: "Hallelujah, for the
| Lord God omnipOtent regnethl"
But men have said that our religion is
not cheerful, because we have such a dole
full Sabbath. They say: You can have
your religious assembages, and your long
faces, and your shifting cant, and your
psalm books, 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 satisfaction
for religious dolefulness." | 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
hty-two Sundays of the year to be hung
up like bells In tower, beating a perpetual
chime of joy and ory and salvation and
heaven: for l want you to carry out the
idea of the text, land call the Sabbath a de-
light"
I 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
| nOt h-splilG Will udui, bOiue WIFI DihIl,
some wit foot. II there is in all this house
a hand that has rot, 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
doc or in the sic room. You practice at
the bar. You eu.- 4 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. / care not what you do, if YOU
only do it well But when Saturday night
comes you are jaded and worn. The h md
cannot so skillfully manufacture; the eye
cannot see as vel the brain is not so clear:
the Judgment is not so well balanced. 4
prominent manufacturer told me that he
could see a difference between the goods
| which went out Of his establishment on
Saturday from tn goods that went out on
Monday. He said: They were very differ
ent, 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 that were made in the latter part
Of the week. when the men were tired out. -
| The Sabbath comes, and it bathes the sore
ness 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
| Jne SeVeuIu uay lucy are WOuuu up, Cney
run down into the grave. The Sabbath as
intended as a savings bank; into II we are to
gather the resources upon which we are to
draw all the week That man who breaks
the Sabbath robs his own nerve his own
muscle, his own brain, his own bones. He
dips up the wine of his own life, and throws
il away He VINO breaks the Lords day
gives a mortgage to disease and death upon
bis entire physical estate, and at the most
unexpected moment that mo tgage will be
fOTeclo ed, and the soul elected from the
premises. Every gland, and pore, and cell,
and tinger-nail demands the seventh day for
| repose. Tie respiration Of he lungs tue
throb of the pulse In the wrist, the motion
| of the bone in its cSet declare: Re
member the Sabbath day to keep it holy. -
There are thousands Of men who have had
their lives dashed out against the golden
gates Of the Sabbath. A prominent London
merchant testies that thirty years ago he
went to London. "He says: II have dur
ing that time watched minutely, and have
noticed that the men who went Ia business
on the Lords day, OF opened their counting
houses, have, without single exception,
come to failure A proml eut christian
merchant in Boston says: II find It don't
pay to work on Sunday When / was a
boy / noticed out on Long Wharf there
were merchants who loaded their vessels on
the Sabbath day, keeping their men busy
Jul iAi't IAhE va hAbAif eA4tA ~ 20 my OD
servation that they themselves came 10
notLing-those merchaa ts-and their chill
dren came 10 not 'ng. II doesn't pay" he
says "to work OIL the Sabbath"
| appeal 70 your observation. Where are
the men who, twenty years ago, were Sab
bath breakers, and who have been Sabbath
| breakers ever siuces Without a single ex-
ception. you will tell me- they nave come
either 10 financial or TO moral beggary. !
defy you 70 point out single exception,
and you can take the whole world for your
field IL has either been a financial or
moral dedication in every instance. Six
hundred and forty physicians in London
petition parliament, saying; I'VE must
have the Sabbath obeyed. We can not
have health IN this city and in this nation
| unless the Sabbath Is observed Those in
our own country have given evidence on
tie same side. The man who takes
down the shutters Of his store on
the Sabbath, takes down the curse
Of Almighty God. That farmer who cul-
turee his ground on the Sabbath day raises
crop Of neuralgia and OF consumption,
and Of death. A farmer said: II defy your
Christian Sabbath | will raise Sunday
crop" So he went 10 work and plowed the
ground on Sunday, and narrowed it on Sun
day, and he painted corn on Sunday, and
he reaped tue corn on sunday, and he
gathered It into the barn on Sunday.
There be says, 81 have proved to you
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