The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-06-29
THE SABBATH REST.
THEME OF REV. DR.. TALMAGE'S
PRESS SERMON.


Eloquent and Forceful Words In Defens,
of Sunday Rest-The American Sabbath
and the European Sabbath.
BROOKLYN, June "a. For today Rev.
Or. Talmage has chosen subject Of
worldwide interest as the theme of his
sermon through the press-viz, the ne
cessity Of guarding the Christian Sab
bath against invasions that aim at its
destruction. The text selected was Elk.
odus XXI, ID, Verify, my Sabbaths ye
shall keep
The wisdom Of cessation from hard
labor one day out of the seven is almost
universally acknowledged The world
has found out that it can do less work
In seven days than in six, and that the
80 days Of the year devoted to rest are
an addition rather than subtraction.
Experiments have been made in all de-
partments. The great Lord Castlereagh
thought he could work his brain 365
days in the year, but after awhile broke
down and committed suicide and Will
berforoe said Of him: Poor Castle
reaghl This is the result Of the nonob-
servance of the Sabbath
A celebrated merchant declared, 81
should have been a maniac long ago but
for the Sabbath. !" The nerves, the brain,
the muscles, the bones, the entire phys
ical, Intellectual and moral nature cry
out for the Sabbatic 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 horses 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
fallp 1t is for the lack of the Sabbatic
rest.
Necessity For Halt.
In other days, when the herdsmen
drove their sheep and cattle from the
far west down to the seaboard, it was
found out by experiment that those
herdsmen and drovers who halted over
the seventh day got down sooner to the
seaboard than those who passed on with
out the observance of the holy Sabbath
The fishermen off the coast Of New
foundland 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
straight route he said, 1--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 ket-
ties to cool over Sunday they would
submit themselves to a great deal of
damage. The experiment 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 week were COM
PEELED to spend only few pennies in
the way of repairs, while in the cases
where no Sabbath was observed many
dollars were demanded for repairs.
In other words, intelligent man,
dumb beast and dead machinery cry out
for the Lords day. But while the at
tempt to kill the Sabbath by the stroke
Of az and fail and yardstick has beau
tifully failed it is proposed in our day
to drown the Sabbath by flooding 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 today in the different cities
10, 900 hands and 10000 pens busy i'll
attempting to cut out the heart of our
Christian Sabbath and leave it bleed
ing skeleton of what it once was The
effort is organized and tremendous, 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 persisted, and it is
becoming a practical question whether
we who received a pure Sabbath from
the hands of our fathers shall have piety
and pluck enough to give to our chill
dren the same blessed inheritance. The
eternal God helping us, we will
- Sunday Amusements.
l protest against this invasion of the |
holy Sabbath in the first place because
it is war on Divine enactment. God
says in Isaiah, IF thou turn away thy
foot from doing thy pleasure on my holy |
day, thou shalt walk upon the high |
places. What did he mean by "doing
thy pleasure?" He referred to secular |
and worldly amusements. A man told
me he was never SO much frightened as
In the midst of an earthquake, when the
beasts of the field beloved in fear and
even the barnyard fowls screamed in ter
ror. Well, it was when the earth was
shaking and the sky was all full of fire
that God made the great announcement,
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it
holy"
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.
"Oh, says some one, God won't be
with grand sacred concert"
A gentleman who was present at a
grand sacred concert" one Sababth