The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-10
THE WORLD NEEDS REST.
The Sabbath a Great and Philal-
thT0piC Institution.

" AOA V A1AabAAE IL 4 ne 4 al &c GAHA1SN3
of Sabbath Breakers.
Rev A J. FARRELL, pastor Of Trinity
church, devoted himself at both services
yesterday TO the subject of the Sabbath.
The subject of the morning sermon was
Sabbath Observation" and that of last
nights service sabbath Dissertation. e"
DR. farrell handled the subject with
ability, showing a large amount of re-
search ana presented his facts in logical
and convincing manner. Both sermons
We're interesting, and Of character to
cause deep thought upon a subject often
/ lightly regarded.
DIR. farrell began his morning sermon
/ by reading the account OF the delivery of
the ten commandments of Moses from the
! twentieth chapter of Exodus, laying par
ticular stress upon the fourth command
ment. His text was, Remember the
| Sabbath Day to Keep it Holy
DIR. farrell held, first that leaving re
ligiOn and the Bible aside the Sabbath
is necessary institution to man. 1T
was made for man, he said-he is obliged
to have it. The inventor of this machine,
our bodies, says it must have one days
rest in seven. All machinery needs rest.
Everything on earth needs rest The
ocean rests four times q day, nearly an
hour each time. Trees rest four months
in the year. The soil rests four months
in the year and ought to rest every sab
batic year besides Every living thing
needs rest, but man needs it most of all.
men have become maniacs for failing to
rest upon the Sabbath"
AN ECONOMIC INSTITUTION
Or. farrell regards the Sabbath as
great economic institution. Men can do
moro work in civ dave than in gaypr - ba
said. "They can do better work in six
days than in seven. They can make
more money in six days than in seven, if
they make it honestly" He quoted Lord
Macaulay in support of this statement.
Il know England" said Macaulay. Il
have studied her progress, and | declare
to-day she is richer in money and re
sources for keeping the Sabbath for these
hundreds of years.
The sabbath is a. great civlizing in
stitution,n was the next point made. at
Is said that Solomon, in one of his visits
to the Queen of Sheba, found a queer
kind of monkey in a secluded valley. On
investigation he found there had once
been a colony of Jews who settled there,
and abolished the Jewish Sabbath. The
last one of them had turned to monkey
He quoted DR.. TGlnagc's account of
two settlements in New Hampshire, of
which the people of one settlement OBJ
served the Sabbath and those of the
other did not. with most disastrous re-
suits to the latter.
DR.. farrell dwelt some time upon the
Sabbath as a divine institution.
1T is one of the ten commandments
he said. 1t is on the tables of stone
traced there by the very fingers that
made these wheeling spheres and shining
orbs. Ii is there to stay. No Sabbath
breaker can ever erase it, No intidel can
ever touch it. The world can never OBJ
literate it, 1t will never be repealed-it
win never be modified. God never repeats
a law, because he never makes a mistake
in its enactment. He never modifies a
law, save to run the flag up higher As
light increases he expects a higher, not
lower, obedience. His laws, like Himself,
are the same yesterday, to-day and for
ever.n
THE SABBATH A COMMANDMENT.
''The Sabbath is the commandment pre-
servative of all commandments" said Dr.
FARRELL. 1t is the keystone of the arch
II the Sabbath goes, all goes with it. No
Sabbath, no church How can there bel
Who Is to preachl Who is to hear it?
Where are they to assemble? No gospel,
no more lifting men from sin and shame
to righteousness and peace. How can
there bet What other person ever did it
or ever can do it? No gospel, no more
alms-house hospitals and orphan asy-
lums.
mo Sabbath, no protection to the vir-
tue of your households. No sabbath, no
protection to your property No Sabbath
no protection to your lives. If Sabbath
goes all restraint goes-not at once. II
will take generations TO eradicate all
Sabbath influence and religious thought
But they will go. Are YOU prepared to
give up all at the beck of a horde of Sab
| bath breakers2
The Sabbath is the great battle
ground between the church and the
| world. II is the center of each army. 1t
| Is the key to final victory. The devil uu-
| derStands it--has understood it all the
time. So do his servants among men The
battle RACES sore all around the fourth
| commandment. God has warned us and
urged us through both Testaments, from
lid to lid, TO keep the day without spot.
When will we do it,"
RESULT OF THE BATTLE.
DR.. Jarrells conclusion was interesting.
| Tremendous results depend upon the
/ struggle, he said. For the working man
! it is death struggle for religious liberty.
! | wish l had the ear of 10000, 600 people
IN Workingmen, their wives
4 and children. / wish l had the car of
| 10000 in savannah. l could draw pict-
| ure that would make them think There
] tLlG ~Nbbb,bOO VI ptOBit III AlllGIlCd LO-udA
/ on whom no Sabbath sun ever rises |
| never saw it 50 in days of slavery | was
| brought up on large plantation. spent
| twenty years in daily contact with the
| slaves on the farm. They had all the
! sabbath l ever had. / never knew a
! plantation where the day was not al
/ lowed as day of unbroken rest.
/ But l see a time now when two mill
/ IONS mostly white men, are robbed of all
| vestige of n sabbath. Who are these
| menu They are men tOiling for bread,
/ who would be discharged ii they de-
manded Sabbath privileges And the
awful number increases every day. What
! shall be the end of all thisl | see no end
I for the poor man or his children-save the
brickyaris of Egypt and the taskmaeters
/ whip. There is but one escape, and that
+ IS in your hands, The ballot box is yours,
for state, county, municipal and general
/ government.
INFRINGING ON THE SABBATH.
DIR. FARRELL followed up his morning ser
/ mon with strong sermon last evening on
/ sabbath infringements and methods by
/ which the sabbath is broken
He read from Exodus ny, s, "Remem-
1 Der the Sabbath day to keep it holy, " and
spoke first of the demands Of the day.
. The law required the Christian, he said
to keep one day in seven sacred, but it
was not vital that we should take the
first day. The Sabbath day, he said, de-
manded rest, absolute rest Rest is Il