The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-06-27
PLEA FOR THE SABBATH.
Rev. DR., Talmage Calls Upon Chris
tians to Defend Their Sunday.
Some OF the Results of the Nom Observance
of the Day-Those Who Strive to Desc
crate the Day of Rest Are Enc
mics of God and the
Public Veal.

cent sermon through the press was one
of worldwide interest, the subject be-
ing: "The necessity of guarding the
Christian Sabbath against invasions
that aim at its destruction. The text
selected was: Elk. xxi. 13, "Verily, my
Sabbath 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
fifty-two days of the year devoted to
rest are an addition rather than a sub
traction. Experiments have been made
in all departments. The great Lord
Castlereagh thought he could work his
brain three hundred and sixty-five 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 non
observance Of the Sabbath
A celebrated merchant declared; 81
should have been maniac long ago
but for the sabbath" The nerves, the
brain, the muscles, the bones, the en-
tire physical, intellectual and moral
nature cry out for the Sahbatic rest.
What is true OF man Is, for the most
part, true of the brute.
Travellers bave 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.
In other days, when the herdsmen
drove their sheep and cattle from the
far west down to the scaboard, it was
found out by experiment that those
herdsmen and drovers who halted over
the seventh day got down sooner 10 the
seaboard than those who passel on
without the observance Of the holy
Sabbath. The fishermen Off the coast
of Newfoundland declare that thosc
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: 1--WE have to
let the locomotive stop and cool off or
the machinery would soon break
down" Men who made large quanti-
ties of saltwere told that If they allowed
their kettles to cool over Sunday they
would submit themselves to a 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 a week were
compelled to spend only few pennies
in the way ofrepairs; while in the cases
where no Sabbath was observed, many
dollars were demanded for repairs.
In other words, intelligent man,
dumb beasts and dead machinery cry
out for the Lords day. But while the
attempt to kill the Sabbath day by the
stroke of AK and fail and yardsticls has
beautifully failed, it is proposed in our
W AlEbNn llit DAbbdNlA ny
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 to-day in the different cit
les, ten thousand hands and ten thou
sand pens busy in attempting TO cut
out the heart of our Christian Sabbath,
and leave IL a bleeding skeleton OF what
IL 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 SER
mons and protests will be uttered after
the castle is taken. There are cities in
the land where the Sabbath has almost
perished, and II is becoming practical
question whether we who received a
pure Sabbath from the hands Of our faith
ers shall have piety and pluck enough
to give TO our children the same blessed
inheritance. The eternal God helping
us, we Will
Iprotest against this invasion Of the
holy Sabbath, in the first place, because
II is war on divine enactment God
says, in Isaiah: IF thou turn away
thy foot from doing 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 barn-yard fowls screamed
in terror. Well, il was when the earth
was shaking and the sky was all full of
fire that God made the great announce
ment: Remember the Sabbath day to
keep II holy
Go through the streetsw1ete the the
sters are open on Sabbath night; go
up on the steps; enter the boxes of
those places Of entertainment, and tell
me il that is keeping the Sabbath holy.
CO." says someone, ''God won't be dis
pleased with a grand sacred concert"
A gentleman who was present at a
'grand sacred concert one Sabbath
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;
and there were dances, and farce, and
tight rope walking. and a trapeze per
formance. | suppose IL was a holy
dance and consecrated tight rope.
This is what they call grand sacred
concert"
We hear a great deal Of talk about
'the rights Of the people" to have just
such amusements ON Sunday as they
want to have. wonder IL the Lord