Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-14


evidence on the 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 cuI-
lures his ground on the Sabbath day
raises a crop of neuralgia, apd of con-
sumption, and of death. A farmer said f:
81 defy your Christian Sabbath. viii
raise Sunday crop So he went to
work and plowed the ground on Sunday
and narrowed it on Sunday, and he
planted corn on Sunday and he reaped
the corn on Sunday and he gathered it
into the barn on Sunday. "There, he
says, 81 have proved to you that all this
idea about fatality accompanying Sab
bath work is a perfect sham. My corn is
garnered, and all is well. But before
many weeks passed the Lord God struck
that barn with his lightnings, and away
went the Sunday crop.
So great is the moral depression COM
ing upon those who toll upon the Sabbath
day that you may have noticed Cif you
have not, l call your attention to the
fact that in cases where the public in
terest demands Sabbath toll the moral
depression is so great that there are but
few who can stand it. For instance, the
police service, without which not one of
our houses would be safe-there are very
few who can stand
THE PRESSURE AND TEMPTATION
of it. In London, where there are 5000
policemen, the statistic is given that III
one year 92l of that 5000 were dismissed,
523 were suspended, and 2492 were fined.
Now, if the moral depression be so great
in occupations that are positively neces-
sary for the peace and prosperity of So
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depression in those cases where there is
no necessity for Sabbath work, and
where man chooses world
" business on the Lord S
day Just because he likes
it, or wants TO add to his emoluments?
During the last war it was found out that
those public works which paused on the
seventh day turned out more war mate
rial than those which worked ali the
seven days. Mr.. Bagnall, a prominent
iron merchant, gives this testimony: 81
find we have fewer accidents III our es-
adjustment ana fewer Interruptions
now we observe the Lord IS day; and at
the close of the year. now that we keep
Sabbath, find that we turn out more
iron and have larger profits than any
year when we worked all the seven
days. The fact is, Sabbath-made
ropes will break, and Sabbath-made
shoes win leak, and Sabbath-made coats
VIII rip, and Sabbath-made muskets will
miss fire, and Sabbath occupations Will
be blasted. a gentleman said: 81 in
vented a shuttle on the Lord s day. [
was very busy, so l made the model
of that new shuttle on the Lord $ day.
So very busy was during the week that
I had to occupy many Sabbaths. It was
a great success. l enlarged my build
ings; built new factories, and made
hundreds of thousands of dollars; but l
have to tell you that all the result of that
work on the Sabbath has been to me
ruin. enlarged my buildings, made
great many thousands of dollars, but L
have lost all, and charge 1t to the fact
of that Sunday shuttle. " I will place in
two companies the men in this community
who break the Sabbath and the men who
keep it, and then l ask you who are the
best
FRIENDS OF SOCIETY?
Who are the best friends of morals? Who
have the best prospects for this world?
Who have the best for the world that is
to come?
Sabbath morning comes in the house
hold. | suppose that the mere philoso-
pher would say that the Sabbath light
comes in wave current, just like any
other hight; but it does not seem so to
me. It seems as If it
touched the eyelids more gently,
and threw brighter glow on the manteI
and east q better cheerful
ness on the faces of the children, and
threw a supernatural glory over the old
family Bible. Hail, Sabbath light We
rejoice in it. Rest comes in through the
or it leaps mp from the fire, or
it rolls ont in the old arm chair, or it
catches up the body into ecstacy and
swings open before 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 to
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 overtaxed work
man inthe mine, or out on the wall, or
ii the sweltering factory. Hang up the
plane, drop the adj, 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 reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes"
Again 1 remark, we ought to have IN
the Sabbath the joy of domestic reunion |
and conservation There are some very |
good parents who have the faculty of |
making the Sabbath great gloom. Their |
children run up against the wall of pa |
rental righteousness on that day They |
Ire sorry when Sunday comes, and glad |
when it goes away. They think of every |
hing bad on that day. 1t is the worst |
lay to them, really, in all the week.
There are persons who, because they were |
brought up in Christian families where
here were wrong notions about the Sab
oath have gone
OUT INTO DISSIPATION
md win be lost. man said to me: ''I |
nave perfect disgust for the Sabbath day |
never saw my father smile on sunday |
t was such a dreadful day to me when l
vas boy never got over it, and never
viii. - Those parents did not call the
sabbath delight; they made it q gloom
But there are houses represented here
his morning where the children say
through the week: 81 wonder when
Sunday viii come!'' They are anxious
o have it come. 1 hear their hosanna in
he house; hear their hosanna in the
school. God intended the Sabbath to be
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