Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-03

afford to do 1t. All you gain by break
ing the Sabbath you will lose. You
VIII lose one of three things: your in
tellec< your morals, or your property,
ana you cannot point in the whole
earth to single exception to this rule.
God gives us six days and keeps one
ffor himself. Now, If we try to get the
seventh, he will upset the work of the
| other six
I rrmcsnber going up Mount Wash
mgtGn. before the railroad had been
III to the Tip-Top house, and the
g'En.Gc would come around to our horses
ana fol us when we were crossing
a verA steep and dangerous place, end
NC would tighten the girth of the horse
end straiGllten the saddle. And have
steep and full of peril we must, at
least enc day In seven, stop and nave
the harness Of life readjusted, and our
souls re-equipped. The seven days Of
the week are like seven busn ISIS part
rers, and you must give to each one
his share or the business will be broken
Il
has given you six days to his one. Now,
here is father who has seven apples,
and he gives six to his greedy boy,
proposing to keep one for himself.
The greedy boy grabs for the other
one and loses all the six.
How few men there are who know
how to keep the Lords day away from
home. great many who are con-
sistent on the banks Of the st. Law
renee or the Alabama or the Missis-
sippi. are not consistent when they
get so far off as the East river.
repeat-though it is putting it on a low
grcund-you cannot financially afford
to break the Lords day. 1t is only
another way of tearing up your gov
eminent securities and putting down
the price of goods and blowing UP
your store. l have friends who are
all the time slicing off pieces Of the Sab
bath. They cut little of the Sabbath
off that end and little off the Sabbath
off this end. They do not keep the
twentyfour hours. The Bible says:
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep
it holy" have good friends who are
quite accustomed to leaving Albany by
the midnight train on Saturday night
and getting home before church. Now,
there may be occasions when it is right,
but generally it is wrong. How, if
the train should run off the track into
the North river? I hope your friends
will not send to me to preach your fu-
neral sermon. 1t would be an awk-
ward thing for me. to stand up by
your side and preach-you a Christian
man, killed on Il rail train travelling
on a Sunday morning. Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy" What
does that mean: 1t means twcnty-foul
hours. A man owes you dollar. You
don't want him to pay you 80 cents
you want the dollar. If God demands
of us twenty-four hours out of the week
he means twenty-four hours, and not
nineteen. On, we want to keep vigi
lantly in this country the American
Sabbath, and not have transDlanted
here the European Sabbath which, fol
, the most part, is no Sabbath at all
,, If any Of you have been in Paris, yol
!; know that on Sabbath morning thu
vast population rush out toward thu
: country with baskets and bundles, ant
toward night they come back tagged
out, cross and intoxicated. May Coz
preserve to us our glorious, quiet Amer
lean Sabbath.
!, city. May you find Christ here. ant
not any physical or moral damage
!, Men coming from inland. from distan
cities, have here found God and fount
him in our service. May that be you
:: case to-day. You thought you wer
brought to this place merely for TIL
purpose of sight seeing Perhaps Coz
brought you to this roaring city for tn
/ purpose Of working out your cterna
: salvation. Go back to your homes
and tell them how you met Christ her
the loving, patient, parloning and sym
pathetic Christ. Who knows but tn
t city which has been the destruction
? of SO many may be your eternal re
7 demption.
A good many years ago Edwar,
| Stanley, the English commander. witt
his regiment, took fort The for
: was manned by some 300 Spaniards
, Edward Stanley came close up to TIL
r fort, leading his men, when a Span
lard thrust at him with spear, in
: tending to destroy his life; but Stanle.
: caught hold of the spear and the Span
t lard in attempting to jerk the spea
!, away from Stanley lifted him up int
the battlements. No sooner had Stan
, ley taken his position OH the battle
, ments than he swung his sword an,
+ his whole regiment lcaped after hin
a and the fort was taken. So it may b
, with you, 0 stranger. The city int1u
, ences which have destroyed so man.
, and dashed them down forever shall
, be the means of lifting you up into tn
= tower of Gods mercy and strength
, your soul more than conqueror through
= the grace of him who has promised al
: especial benediction to those who shal
: treat you well, saying: Il was :
stranger and We took me in.''
, In Danger of JOhnstown's Fate.
Some time ago, in the Gurwhal dis
trict in India, an immense slip from .