The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-06-29
THE SABBATH REST.
THEME OF REV. DR.. TALMAGE'S
PRESS SERMON.

PRESS SERMON.
| Although Far From Home, He Sends Back
Eloquent and Torcefui Words In Defense
and the European Sabbath.
BROOKLYN, June "a. For today Rev.
DR.. Talmage has chosen subject of
worldwide interest as the theme of his
sermon through the press-viz, the ne
cessity of guarding the Christian Sab
bath against invasions that aim at its
destruction. The text selected was Ex-
odus XXI, IS, Verify, my Sabbaths ye
shall keep"
The wisdom of cessation from hard
labor one day out of the seven is almost
universally acknowledged. The world
has found out that it can do less work
in seven days than in six, and that the
90 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 800
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 Sabbath"
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
ical, intellectual and moral nature cry
out for the Sabbatic rest What is true
of man is, for tie most part, true of the
brute. Travellers have found out that
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? 1t is for the lack of the Sabbatic
rest.
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
ont 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 / asked the Rocky mountain
locomotive engineer why he changed
locomotives when it seemed to be a
straight route, he said, "We 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 thai il they allowed their ket-
ties to cool over Sunday they would
submit themselves to 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
PEELED to spend only a few pennies in
the way Of repairs, while in the cases
where no Sabbath was observed many
dollars We're 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 az 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
| 10000 hands and 10000 pens busy in
attempting to cut out the heart of our
| Christian Sabbath and leave it bleed
ing skeleton of what it 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 persisted, and it is
becoming a practical question whether
we who received pure Sabbath from
the hands of our fathers shall have piety
and pluck enough to give to our chill
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