Connecticut western news., 1894-06-28
THE SABBATH REST.
THEME OF REV. DR. TALMAGE'S
 PRESS SERMON.

Although Far From Home, He Sends Back i Eloquent and Forceful Words In Defense
 of Sunday Rest-The American Sabbath
 and the European Sabbath.
 BROOKLYN, June 24.-For today Rev. Dr. Talmage has chosen a subject of worldwide interest as the theme of his sermon through the press-viz, the ne- oessity of guarding the Christian Sab bath against ilr~asions that aim at its destruction. The text selected was Ex- odus xxi, 1S, "Verily, my Sabbaths ye shan keep"
 The wisdom of cessation from hard labor one day out of the seven is,almost universally acknowledged. The world has found out that 1t can do less work in seven days than in six, and that the b2 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 berforce said of him: Poor Castle reagh! This is the result of the nonob- servance of the Sabbathr'
 A celebrated merchant declared, II should have been maniac long ago but for the Sabbath. " The nerves, the brain, the muscles, the bones, the entire phys 1cal. intellectual and moral nature cry out for the Sabbatic rest. What is true of man is. for the most part, true of the thaf 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 fall? It is for the lack of the Sabbatic rest
 ii, 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 I asked the Rocky mountain locomotive engineer why he changed locomotives when it seemed to be a straight route, he said, I've 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 pelled 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 ax 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, 1000 hands and 10, 900 pens busy in attempting to cut out the heart of our Christian Sabbath and leave it bleed ing skeleton of what 1t 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 perished, and it is becoming practical question whether we who received pure Sabbath from the hands of our fathers shall have piety and pluck enough to give to our chil- dren the same blessed inheritance. The eternal God helping us, we will!
 Sunday Amusements.
 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 TOT. We'll, 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 hoiy.'
 Go through the streets where the go up on the steps, enter the boxes of those places of entertainment and tell me if that is keeping the SabbaAh holy. "Oh, says some one, "God won't be displeased with a grand sacred concertp' A gentleman who was present at a grand sacred concert" one Sababth night in one of the theaters of our great cities said that during the exercises there were comic and sentimental songs, interspersed with coarse jokes, and there were dances, and farce and tight rope walking, and trapeze per formance. I suppose it was holy dance and consecrated tight rope. That is what they call grand sacred con- cert. !"
 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 if the Lord has any rghta- You rule your family; the governor rules the state; the president rules the whole land wonder if the Ford 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 high court from that decision, and if the men who are warning against that enactment are not guilty of high Eeason against the Max or of heaven and earth. They have In our cities put God on trial It has been the theaters and the opera houses, plain