Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-20

worst satanic influences in the simple fact
that they are going to observe Now. II
man or woman shall go down into a haunt
OF infquity for the purpose of reforming men
and women or for the sake of being able in
teligentlT TO warn people against such
perils If, as did John Howard or Elizabeth
Fry or Thomas Chalmers, they go down
among the abandoned for the sake of saving
them. then such explorers shall be God pro-
| tected, and they will come out better ihan
they went In. But If you go on this work of
exploration merely for the purpose of salts
Tying morbid curiosity will take twenty
per cent. off your moral character.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake up in
the hotel. You have had q longer sleep
than usual. You say: ''Where am II A
thousand miles from home? 1 have no fam
lily to take to church to-day. My pastor will
not expect my presence. think shall look
over my accounts and study my memoran-
DUN book, Then I will write few business
letters and talk to that merchant who cam6
In on the same train with me-" Stop! You
cannot afford to do it.
"But," you say. 81 am worth $500, ,O0O"
You cannot afford to do it. You say, 81 am
worth S1,O00,0 ,0O0." 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 TO this rule. Gol
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
Tip-Top House, and the guide would come
around to our horses and stop US when we
were crossing a 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 50 steep
and full of peril we must at least one day in
seven stop and have the harness of life read
justed and our souls re-aquipped. 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-Ho has given
you six days to His one. Now, here is O
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! A
great many who are consistent on tho banks
of the ST. Lawrence, or the Alabama, or tho
Mississippi are not consistent when they get
SO far off as the East River. 1 repeat
though it is putting it a low ground
you cannot financially afford to break the
Lords day. 1t is only another way of tear
ing up your Government securities and put
ting down the price of goods and blowingup
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
do not keep the tWenty-four hours. The
Bible says, "Remember tha Sabbath day, to
keep 1t 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 Occ isiOn
when it is right, but generally it is wong.
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 funeral ser
mon. 1t would be an awkward thing for me
to stand up by your side and preach, you, a
Christian man, killed on a rail train travel
ing on n Sunday morning. ''Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy" What does
that mean? 1t means twenty-four hours.
A man owes you dollar. You don't want
him to pay you ninety cents. You want the
dollar. If God dem2 1ds of us twenty-four
hours out ofthe week. he means twenty-four
hours, and not nineteen. Oh we want to
keep vtgilantly in this country the
American Sabbath and not have trans
planted hero 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
preserve to US Our glorious, quiet American
Sabbaths.
Oh, strangers, welcome to the great ethyl
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
that be your case to-day. You thought you
were brought to this merely for the purpose
of sightseeing. Perhaps God 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, tho loving, patient, pardoning
and sympathetic Christ Who knows but the
city which has been tho destruction of so
many may be your eternal redemption?
A good many years ago Edward Stanley,
the English commander, with his regiment,
took fort. The fort was manned by some
800 Spaniards. Edward Stanley came close
up to the fort leading hts men, when Span
lard thrust Mt 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 battlements. No sooner had
Stanley taken his position on the battlements
than he swung his sword, and his whole reg
iment leaped after him, and the fort was
taken. So it may be with you, o stranger.
The city Influences which have destroyed SO
many and dashed them down forever shall
be the means of lifting you up into the tower
of Gods mercy and strength your soul more
than conquered through the grace of Him
who has promised an especial benediction to
those who shall treat you we'll, saying, 81
was stranger, and ye took Ne in"