Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-06-28
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REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The BROOKLYN DIvINE,s SIM.
DAY SERMON.
subject: "Thc Sabbath Rest.n


mn lug wisdom of cessation from hard labor
aa,. uay OUT OIL seven is almost universaIIv
that :, ".euged: The world has found out
in s;n oaii ao less work in seven DAYS than
wa,r ana that the Gfty-two days of the
year devoted to rest are an addition rath hns
wal ah subtraction. Experiments have been
Ca "u1 IN an departments. The great Lord
,pns.lsreagh thought he could work h;s
. IRAN 800 days in the year, but after awhile
,w roke down and committed suicide. and
M ioesforce said of him ''Poor Castlereaoh
~, ms IS the result of the nonobservance Of
The Sabbath p '"noo Vi
A celebrated merchant declared az shopid
, nave been maniac long ago but for the
',apoath The nerves, the brain. the
muscles, the bones, the entire physical in.
.eiiectuat and moral nature cry out for tho
Sabbatic rest. What is true of man is fnr
ne most part. true of the brute. Travelers
nave found out that they come TO their
places OF destination sooner when thev let
s .ne,1 horses rest by the way on the Sab
,ath, what Is the matter with those for.
'orn creatures harnessed to some Of tho cit,,
S s,, why do they stumble and stacrer and
'"n9 IL Is lorthe lack OF the Sabbatjc rest
;, IN other days. when the herdsmen drove
their sheep and cattle from the Far We,
town to the seaboard, it was found ont h,,
experiment. that those herdsmen and drovers
WHY matted over the seventh day got down
sooneI 10 the seaboard than those who
passed on without the Observance of H.
molly Sabbath. The fishermen off the Goa At
OF newfoundland declare that those man
curing The year catch the most fish who atom
during the Lords day. S''p
When asked the Rocky Mountain Iooo-
mstive engineer why he changed locomo-
ives wn t, It seemed to be straight route he
ea'9' we nave to let the locomotive sion
eno Sooi OH, or the machinery would soon
s uIeah ooWn' Men who made large auanti-
Ties OF salt We're told that If they allowed
their kettles to cool over Sunday thew wouia
submit themselves to great deal of dam
age. Inc experiment was made. some oh
serving the Sabbath and some not Observing
the Sabbath. Those who allowed the flres n
go down and the kettles to cool once n week
were compelled to spend onlya few pennies
~ the way OF repairs, while in the cases
where no SABBATH was observed many do
lars were demanded for repairs.
In other words, intelligent man dumb
beast and dead machinery cry ont for the
LORDS day. But while the attempt to kin
.he Saopath by the stroke of AK and fail and
yardstick has beautifully failed it is pro-
posed 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 oil all brazen instruments
Inere are to-day in the different cities 10
200 hands and 10000 pens busy in attemnt-
ing. to cut out the heart of our Christian Sab
Dath and leave il a bleeding skeleton OF what
u 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 viii
Dc uttered after the castle is taken. There
are cities in the land where the Sabbath has
almost persisted, and 1t is becoming a prac-
icai question whether we who received "a
pure Sabbath from the hands of our fathers
shall have piety and pluck enough to give 70
our children the same blessed inheritance,
Inc eternal God helping us, we will
=, protest against this invasion OF the holy
sabbath In the first place because it is a war
on Divine enactment God says In Isaiah
III 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 terror.
We'll, 1t was when the earth was shaking and
the skies were all full OF fire that God made
the great announcement. Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy"
Go through the streets where the theatres
are open on Sabbath night, go up on the steps,
enter the boxes of those places of entertain
ment and tell me If that is keeping the Sab
bath holy. "Oh," says some one, "God won't
be displeased with grand sacred concert ~
gentleman who was present at a "grand
sacred concert" one Sabbath night in one of
the theatres OF our great cities said that dur
ing the exercises there were comic and senti-
mental songs, interspersed with coarse Jokes,
and there were dances and a farce and tight
rope walking and trapeze performance.
suppose 1t was holy dance and consecrated
tight rope. That is what they call grand
sacred concert
We hear great deal of talk about "the
rights OF the people" to have just such
amusements on Sunday as they want to
have. | wonder II the Lord has any rights
You rule your family ;the governor rules the
State, the president rules the whole land.
i wonder If the Lord has right to rule the
nations and make the enactment, "Remem-
Der the Sabbath day to keep it holy" and il
there Is any appeal to a high court from
that decision. and If the men who are war
ring against that enactment are not guilty of
high treason against the Maker of heaven and
earth. They have in our cities put God on
trial. It has been the theaters and the opera
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defendant. The suit has been begun, and
who shall come out ahead you know.
Whether 1t be popular, now announce it as
my opinion that the people have no rights
save those which the great Jehovah gives
them. He has never given the right to man
to break His holy Sabbath. and as long as His
throne stands He never will give that right
The prophet asks IA question which can
easily answer, "Will u man rob GodT Yes.
They robbed Him last Sunday night at the
theatres and the opera houses, aud charge
upon them the infamous and high handed
larceny. hold the same opinion as a sailor
Have heard Of. The crew had been dis
charged from vessel because they would
not work while they were In port on the
Lords day. The captain went out to get
sailors. He found one man, and he said to
him, "Will you serve me on the Sabbath
NO" "Why not?" well, replied the old
sailor. ga man who will rob God Almighty
of His Sabbath would rob me OF my wages II
he got a chance"
Suppose you were poor, and you came to
8 drygoods merchant and asked for some
cloth for garments, and he should say, 81
Will give you six yards" and while he was
OF from the counter and binding up the six
yards you should go behind the counter and
steal one additional yard. That is what
every man does when he breaks the Lords
Sabbath God gives us six days out of
seven, reservng one for Himself, and II you
will not let Him have It it is mean beyond
all computation.
Again, am opposed to this desecratlon
of the Sabbath by secular entertainments be-
cauaa II Ia n war on the statutes OF most oil