Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-06-30

Esooner when they lot their horses rest
s1y the way on the Sabbath. What is
the. matter with those forlorn creatures
harnessed to some of tho city cars?
Why do they stumble and stagger and
fall? It is for the lack of the Sabbatic
rest.
Necessity For n Halt
In other days, when the herdsmen
drove their sheep and cattle from tho
far west down to tho seaboard, 1t 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
out 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 I asked the Rocky mountain
locomotive engineer why he changed
locomotives when 1t seemed to be q
straight route, he said, 1--WE have to let
tho locomotive stop and cool off, or the
machinery would soon break down. "
Men who made large quantities of salt
were told that if they allowed their ket-
Ties to cool over Sunday they would
submit themselves to great deal Of
damage. The experiment was made,
seine observing the Sabbath, and some
not observing the Sabbath. Those who
i'allowed the fires to go down and the
kettles to cool once week were COM
pslled to speaA only a. few pennies in
tkD way OF while insthe cases
NJ NJ. se So was observed many
dollars were 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 1t very decently under the wreath
Of the target company and to the music
of all brazen instruments.
There are today in the different cities
10, 900 hands and 10, 900 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
BIO uttered after the castle is taken.
There are cities in the land where the
Sabbath has almost persisted, and it is
becoming practical question whether
we who received pure Sabbath from
the hands of our fathers shall have plety
and pluck enough to give to our chill
dren the Same blessed Inheritance The
eternal God helping US, we will!
Sunday Amusements.
protest against this invasion of the
holy Sabbath in the first place because
it is war on Divine enactment. God
says in Isaiah, IF thou turn away thy
foot fromdoing thy pleasure on my holy
day, thou shalt walk upon the high
places. +" What did he mean by doing
thy pleasure?" He referred to secular
and worldly amusements. A man told
me he was never so much frightened as
in the midst of an earthquake, when the
beasts of the field beloved in fear and
even the barnyard fowls screamed III ter
ror. Well, it was when the earth was
shaking and the sky was all full Of fire
that God made the great announcement,
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it
holy"
Go through the streets where the
theaters are open on Sabbath night,
10 ND ON the steps, enter the boxes Of
those places of entertainment and tell
me if that Is keeping the Sabbath holy.
-"Oh," says some one, "God won't be
displeased with a grand sacred concerto
A gentleman who was present at q
"grand sacred concert one Sababth
night in one Of the theaters Of our great
cities said that during the exercises
there were comic and sentimental SONGS
interspersed with coarse jokes, AID
there were dances, and farce, and
tight rope walking, and a trapeze per-
Torrance. suppose it was holy dance
and q consecrated tight rope. That is
what they call "grand sacred con-
cert. +"
We hear great deal of talk about
"the rights of the people" to have just
such amusements on Sunday as they
want to have. Iwonder if the Lord has
any rights. You rule your family; the