Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
WORLDS PRAYER UNION.
Ftlesr WEEK OF APRIL.

FIlcsr WEEK OF APRIL.
The Worlds Sabbath Observance
Prayer Union earnestly urges that from
the 9Th. to the 18th. of April, 1891, all
Christians everywhere unite in private
and public prayer for she better obser-
vance Of the Sabbath, and that minis
ters present the subject in their pull
pits April 5th.
Topics suggested for prayer and
praise.
I A large outpouring of the Holy
Spirit on Divine ordinances, especially
on the LORDS Day, that Gods people
may be quickened and the unsaved
converted. The great promise by Christ
was the gift of the Holy Spirit, That
promise. in answer to prayer, began to
be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost:
which was the first day of the week.
There are many more people on earth
now than then, and the churches have
great need for IN extensive baptism Of
the Spirit to enable them faithfully to
do the work entrusted to them.
Read Ez 36: 21-3S; Jer. 81: 3l-A
Heb. so: 15-s25; lisa. 81: S-14; Acts 2.
2 That efforts, wherever made, to
secure rest for Postotice servants, may
soon meet with full success. There
are few countries in which measures
are not being taken to secure rest on
the Lords day in the Postofiice de-
partment. In Great Britain and Ire
land proposals will be brought before
Parliament to secure that, the whole
kingdom be econformed to the practice
in London, where, with a population
Of about five millions, no postal deliy-
cry is made from Saturday evening to
Monday morning. This, if secured,
would give great impetus to similar
movements over the world. Therefore
let every land join in fervent prayer
for early success.
Read Deut. 6: lis; Eph. 6: 1919;
Amos 8: A; Lev. 26: 27-35; 2Chron.
26: IL 81.
That rest from all forms of unec-
essary sabbath labor may be speedily
obtained. Among these are railway
travelling, pleasure sailing with its dis
sipatlon, hiring of vehicles, car and
omnibus traffic, requiring the labor of
countless numbers and tempting m,A-
titudes to travel, festive parties which
cause much work to servants, loading
and dlscharging ships, open shops and
bar rooms. These and similar forms
OF Sabbath labor, leading as they do to
other gross vices, shoul<. be at once the
subject of most earnest petitions that
God would remove them.
Read Men. 13: l5-22; Luke 4: 1870:
EZ. 20: 12-24; Rev. l. 1870.
That all who are free from work
on the Lords Day may use the day for
rest and worship, not in the pursuit OF
pleasure, which cempels millions of
persons throughout Christendom to Ia
Dor for the qualification of others, and
which perverts the day from the sacred
purposes for which it was divinely- ap-
pointed. Recently, in Continental
Europe and elsewhere, there are mark
ed signs of progress in the desire for
Sabbath rest for adj, with, however,
one notable exception, namely; no rest
for those who conduct conveyances,
whether public or private, to serve the
myriads who being free from labor
themselves, do not scrune to put adj
ditional work on others by Sabbath
travel. Prayer shes,ld be fervent and
instant that this evil may be removed;
that those who can have rest may spend
the day proftably and find week days
for excursions.
Read Ps. 50, lisa. So; Ez. %: 26; Acts
4: 23-3l; 1 Tim. {-S.