The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-04-25

Sabbath morning comes. You wake up In
the hotel. You have had longer sleep
than usual. You say 'sWhere am II 4
thousand miles from home? I have no fam
not expect my presence. think shall look
over my accounts and study my memoran-
dunn book. Then will write few business
letters and talk to that merchant who came
In on the same train with me-" Stop! You
cannot afford to do 1t.
"But," you say. "I am worth $500 000."
You cannot afford to do it. You say, ~ am
worth 81, 600, ,000." You cannot afford to do
1t. All you gain by breaking the Sabbath
you will lose. You will lose one of three
things-your intellect, your morals or your
property-and you cannot point In the whole
earth to single exception 20 this rule. God
gives US six days and keeps one for Himself.
Now, If we try to get the seventh, he will
upset the work Of all the other six
remember going up Mount Washington,
beforethe railroad had been built, to the
Tp-Top House, and the guide would come
around to our horses and stop us when We
were crossing very steep and dangerous
place, and he would tighten the girth Of the
horse and straighten the saddle. And have
to tell you that this road of life Is 80 steep
and full Of peril we must at least one day In
seven stop and have the harness ol life read
justed and our souls re-eluipped. The seven
days of the week are like seven business
partners, and you must give to each one his
share, or the business will be broken up.
God Is so generous with us-He has given
you six days to His one. Now, here Is q
father who has seven apples, and he gives
six to his greedy boy. proposing to keep one
for himself. The greedy boy grabs for tho
other rome and loses all the six
How few men there are who know how to
keep the Lords day away from home! A
great many who are consistent on the banks
OF the st. Lawrence, or the Alabama, or the
Mississippi are not consistent when they get
30 far off as the East River. repeat
though it is putting it on low ground
sou cannot financially afford to break the
Lords day. It is only another way of tear
ing up your Government securities and put
ting down the price of goods and blowing up
your store. have friends who are all the
time slicing off pieces of the Sabbath. They
cut little of the Sabbath off that end and
a little OF the Sabbath Off this end. They
do not keep the twenty-four hours. The
Bible says, Remember the Sabbath day, to
keep it holy"
have good friends who are quite accus-
toned to leaving Albany by the midnight
train on Saturday night and getting home
before church. Now, there may be occasion
when 1t Is right, but generally it is wrong.
How If the train should run of the track into
the North River? hope your friends will
not send to me to preach your funeral SER
mon. 1t would be an awkward thing for me
Christian man, killed on rail train travel
Sabbath day to Keep it holy" What does
that mean2 It means twenty-four hours.
A man owes you dollar. You don't want
him to pay you ninety cents. You want the
dollar. II God demands OF US twenty-four
hours out Of the week. He means twenty-four
hours, and not nineteen. Oh, we want to
keep vigilantly In this country the
American Sabbath and not have trans
planted here the European Sabbath, which
for the most part Is no Sabbath at all. II any
Of you have been In Paris, you know that on
Sabbath morning the vast population rush
out toward the country with baskets and
bundles, and toward night they come back
tagged out, cross and intoxicated. May God
preserve to us Our glorious, quiet American
Sabbaths.
Oh, strangers, welcome to the great city -!
May you find Christ here, and not any physi-
cal or moral damage. Men coming from In
land, from distant cities, have here found
God and found Him in our service. May
were brought to this merely for the purpose
Of sightseeing Perhaps Gcd brought you
to this roaring city for the purpose Of work.
ing out your eternal salvation. Go back to
your homes and tell them how you met
Christ here, the loving, patient, pardoning
and sympathetic Christ. Who knows but the
city which has been the destruction of 30
many maybe your eternal redemption2
A good many years ago Edward Stanley.
the English commander, with his regiment,
took q fort. The fort was manned by some
800 Spaniards. Edward Stanley came close
up to the fort, leading his men, when Span
lard thrust at him with spear, intending to
. destroy his life, but Stanley caught hold Of
the spear, and the Spaniard, in attempting
to jerk the spear away from Stanley, lifted
him up into the battlenents. No sooner had
Stanley taken his position on the battlemants
than he swung his sword, and his whole reg
iment leaped after him, and the fort was
taken. So it may be with1you, o stranger.
The city influences which tave destroyed 80
many and dashed them dssFn forever shall
be the means Of lifting you up intothe tower
Of Gods mercy and strength, your soul more
than conquered through the grace OF HIN
who has promised an especial benedicton to
those who shall treat you we'll, saying, "
was stranger, and ye took NE L."