The Globe-republican., 1894-04-13

oceans OF Gods mercy. Oh! that the
Atlantic and Pacific surges of divine
forgiveness might roll over your soul
In our last dreadful war the federals
and confederates were encamped on
opposite sides of the Rappahannock.
and one morning the brass band of the
northern troops played the national
air, land all the northern troops cheered
and cheered. Then on the opposite
side of the Rappahannock the brass
band of the confederates played my
Maryland" and Dixie" and then all
the southern troops cheered and
cheered. But after awhile one of the
bands struck up Home, Sweet Home,
and the band on the opposite
side of the river took up the
strain, and when the tune was done
the confederates and the federalS all
together united. as the tears rolled
down their checks. in one great huxxa.
huxxa: Well, my trieads. Heaven comes
very near to-day. !, IL only stream
that divides us-the harrow stream OF
death-and the voices there and the
voices here seem to commingle, and we
join trumpets and hosannahs and hal
leluiahs and the chorus of the united
song of earth and Heaven is Home,
Sweet Home" Home of bright do
nestle circle on earth. Home of for
giveness in the great heart Of God.
Home of eternal rest in Heaven. Home.
Home! Home!
But suppose you arc standing on
crag of the mountain. and on the edge
of precipice, and all unguardcd, and
some one either in joke or hate shall
run up behind vOn and push you of.
II is easy enough TO push you of. But
who would do 10 siastsrdly deed?
Why. that Ii done every hour CT every
day. and every hour Of every night.
Men come to the verge Of city lie and
say: NOW we will just look Oh Come
young man, do not be afraid. Come
near let us look of" He comes 10 the
edge and looks, aud looks until, after
awhile. Satan sneaiss up behind him.
and puts hand on each Of his shoulders
aud pushes him OF Society says It is
evil proclivisy on the part Of the young
man. oh. no: He was simply an cx-
plorcr and sacrificed his life In diScov.
cry.
Sabbath morning comes You wake
up In the hotel. You have had longer
sleep than usual You say: Where
am l? thousand miles from home.
have no family to take to church to-
day. My pastor will not expect my
presence think shall look over my
accounts and study my memorandum
book. Then / will write a few bust
ness letters, and talk to that merchant
who came in on the same train with
me- Stop! you cannot afford to do it.
'Bnt." you say. Il am worth $780,
OOO' You cannot afford to- do it. You
say am worth S1,OOO,O 900. You cannot
afford to do it. All you gain by break
ing the Sabbath you will lose. You
will lose one of three things: your intel
lect, your morals or your property, and
you cannot point in the whole earth to
single exception to this rule. God
gives us six days and keeps one for
himself. Now, if we try to get the sew
enth. he will upset the work of the
other six ~. II
How few men there are who know
how to keep the Lords day away from
home. 4 great many who are consist
ent on the banks of the St Lawrence
or the Ala ama or the Mississippi are
not consistent when they get so far Off
as the East river l repeat-though it
is putting it on a low ground-you can
not financially afford to break the
Lords day. 1t is only another way of
tearing up your government securities
and putting 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 lit
tie 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 Sab.
bath day, to keep it holy
l 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? l hope your
friends will not send to me to preach
your funeral sermon. 1t would be an
awkward thing for me to stand up by
your side and preach-you Christian
man, killed on a railroad train travel
ing on Sunday morning. "Remem-
Der the Sabbath day. to keep it holy"
What does that mean? 1t means TWEEN
ty-four hours.
man owes you a dollar. You don't
want him to pay you 9oc-you want
the dollar. If God demands of us
twentyfour hours out of the week he
means twenty-four hours, and not
nineteen. Oh, we want to keep vigil.
antly in this country the American
Sabbath, and not have transplanted
here the European Sabbath, which for
the most part is no Sabbath at all. If
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