The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-29
THE SABBATH.
DR.. Talmage on the Necessity of It's
Observance.
It Is Gods Day and Should Be Held Sacred
The Partisan Compared with the
American Sunday-Man's Spir-
itual Welfare at Stake.

The Partisan Compared with the
American Sunday-Man's Spir-
ituaI Welfare at Stake.
The subject lately chosen by Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage as the theme of
his sermon through the press was one
of worldwide interest. viz, the neces-
sity of guarding the Christian Sabbath
against invasions that aim at its de-
struction. The text selected was Elk.
XXI. 10: verify, My Sabbath We shall
keep" Following is the.sermon:
The wisdom of cessation from hard
labor one day out of seven is almost
universally acknowledged. The world
has found out that it can do less work
in seven days than in six, and that fifty
two days of the year devoted to rest
are an addition rather than a subtrac-
ton. Experiments have been made in
all departments. The great Lord Cas-
tlereagh thought he could work his
brain 365 days in the year, but after
awhile broke down and committed sui
eide; and Wilberforce said of him:
Poor Castlereagh! This is the result
of the non-Observance of the Sabbath
A celebrated merchant declared: Il
should have been a mamie long ago
but for the Sabbath" The nerves, the
brain, the muscle, the bones, the intel
lectual and moral nature cry out for
the Sabbath of rest. What is true of
man is, for the most part, true of the
brute. Travellers have found out that
they come to their places of destination
sooner when they let their horse rest
by the way on the Sabbath. What is
the matter with those forlorn creatures
harnessed to some of the city cars?
Why do they stumble and stagger and
fall? 1t is for the lack of the Sabbatic
rest.
In other days, when the herdsmen
drove their sheep and cattle from the
far west down to the seaboard, it was
found out by experience that those
herdsmen and drivers who halted over
the seventh day got down sooner to
the seaboard than those who passed on
without the observance of the holy
Sabbath. The fishermen off the coast
of Newfoundland declare that those
men during the year catch the most
fish who stop during the Lords day.
When 1 asked the Rocky mountain
locomotive engineer why he changed
locomotives when it seemed to be a
straight route, he said: "We have to
let the locomotive stop and cool off or
the machinery would soon break down"
Men who made large quantities of
salt were told that if they allowed
their kettles to cool over Sunday
they would submit themselves to a
great deal of damage. The expert
ment was made, some observing the
Sabbath and some not observing the
Sabbath. Those who allowed the fires
to go down and the kettles to cool once
a week were compelled to spend only
few pennies in the way of repairs,
while in the cases where no Sabbath
was observed, many dollars were de-
manded for repairs.
In other words, intelligent mar,
dumb beast and dead machinery cry
out for the Lords day. But while the
attempt to kill the Sabbath by the
stroke of AK and fail and yardstick
has beautifully failed, it is proposed in
our day to drown the Sabbath by flood
ing it with secular amusements. They
would bury it very decently under the
wreath of the target company and to
the music of all brazen instruments.
There are to-day, in the different
cities, 10000 hands and 10, 900 pens busy
in attempting to cut out the heart of
our Christian Sabbath, and leave it
bleeding skeleton of what it once was
The effort is organized and tremen-
dous, and unless the friends of Christ
and the lovers of good order shall rouse
up right speedily, their sermons and
protests will be uttered after the castle
is taken. There are cities in the land
where the Sabbath has almost per-
ished, and it is becoming a practical
question whether we who received
pure Sabbath from the hands of our
fathers shall have piety and pluck
enough to give our children the same
blessed inheritance. The eternal God
helping us, we will!
Go through the streets where the
theaters are open on a Sabbath night;
go up on the steps; enter the boxes of
those places of entertainment, and tell
me if that is keeping the Sabbath holy. |
80" says some ONE, God won't be dis |
pleased with grand sacred concert"
A gentleman who was present at a |
grand sacred concert" one Sabbath |
night in one of the theaters of our
great cities, said that during the exer-
cises there were comic and sentimental |
songs, interspersed with coarse jokes;
and there were dances, and farce,
and tight rope walking, and a trapeze
performance. Isuppose it was holy
dance and consecrated tight rope.
This is what they call grand sacred
We hear a great deal of talk about
'the rights of the people" to have just
such amusements on Sunday as they
want to have. / wonder if the Lord
has any rights You rule your family,
the governor rules the state, the presi-
dent rules the whole land; wonder if
the Lord has right to rule the nations
and make the enactment: Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy" and
if there is any appeal to a high court
from that decision, and if the men who
are warning against that enactment
are not guilty of high treason against
the maker of Heaven and earth.
The prophet asks a question which 1
can easily answer: Twill a man rob
God?" Yes. They robbed him last
Sunday night at the theaters and opera
houses, and charge upon them the in
famous and high-handed larceny. L
hold the same opinion as sailor have
heard of. The crew had been dis
charged from the vessel because they
,xronld not xxorlc rvhile fheu were in |