The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-25
KEEP HOLY The SABBATH.
Talmage DeCTi0S the InVaSiOnS That
Aim at Its Destruction.

Acknowledged Ihe world aware
That 1t Can Do Less Work in Seven
Days Than in Six-The Physical, In
tellectuaI and Moral Nature of Man
Demand Day of Rest.
Brooklyn, June 24.-For to-day, Rev.
DR.. Talmage has chosen a subject of
worldwide interest as the theme of his
sermon through the press, viz: the neces-
sitv of guarding the Christian Sabbath
against invasions that aim al its destruc-
ton. The text selected was Exodus r31:
Is, Verify, my Sabbaths We 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 1t 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 subtraction.
Experiments have been made in all de-
partments. The great Lord Castlereagh
thought he could work his brain 365 days
in the year, but after awhile broke down
and committed suicide; and Wilberforce
said of him, Poor Castlereagh This is
the result of the non-Observance of the
Sabbath
A celebrated merchant declared: 81
should have been a maniac long ago but
for the Sabbath" The nerves, the brain,
the muscles, the bones the entire physi-
cal, intellectual and moral nature cry out
for the Sabbath rest. What is true of
man is, for the 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 har-
messed to some of the city cars2 Why do
they stumble and stagger and falll 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 10 the seabOard, IL was found
out by experiment that those herdsmen
and drovers who halted over the seventh
day got down sooner to the sea board than
those who passed on without the observ-
ance of the holy SABBATH. The fishermen
OF the coast of Newfoundland declare
that those men during the year catch the
most fish who stop during the Lords
day.
When l asked the Rocky Mountain loco
motive engineer why he changed loco
motives when it seemed TO be a straight
route he said: we have to let the loco
motive stop and cool of or the machinery
would soon break down" Men who
made large quantities of salt were told
that if they allowed their kettles to cool
over Sunday they would submit them
selves to a great deal of damage. The
experiment was made, some observing the
Sabbath and some not observing the Sab
bath. Those who allowed the fires to go
down and the kettles to cool once week
were compelled to spend only few pen
mics in the way of repairs; while in the
cases where no Sabbath was observed,
many dollars were demanded Tor re-
pairs.
In other words, intelligent man, dumb
beast and dead machinery cry out for the
Lords day. But while the attempt TO
kill the Sabbath by the stroke of az and
fail and yardstick has beautifully 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 to-day, in the different cities,
ten thousand hands and ten thousand
pens busy in attempting to cut out the
heart of our Christian Sabbath and leave
IL bleeding skeleton of what it once
was. The effort is organized and ire
mendOus, 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 a pure Sab
bath from the hands of our fathers shall
have piety and pluck enough to give TO
our children the same blessed Inherit
ance. The eternal God helping US, we
will!
| protest against this invasion of the
holy Sabbath in the first place, because il
is war on divine enactment, God saws.
In Isaiah: IF thou turn away thy foot
IRON dong thy pleasure on my holy day,
thou shalt walk upon the high places
What did he mean by ''doing thy
pleasureg' 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 in terror Well
1t 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 thea
tiers are open on Sabbath night: 90 up
on the steps; enter the boxes of those
places of entertainment and tell me if
that is keeping the Sabbath holy. co"
says some one, "God won't be displeased
with grand sacred concert" A gentle
man who was present at 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 performance. / suppose il was
holy dance and consecrated tight rope
This is what they call a grand sacred
concert"
We hear a great deal of talk about 1.-The
rights of the people" to have Just such
amusements on Sunday as they want TO
have ! wonder if the Lord has anv
rights. You rule your family, the gov
.ernor rules the state, the President rules
the whole land; | wonder if the ord
has right to rule the nations and make
the enactment. Remember the Sabbath
day TO keep it holy" and if there is any
appeal 10 high court from that decision.
and If the men who are warning against
that enactment are not guilty of high
treason against the Maker of heaven and
earth. They have in our cities put God
on trial. 1t has been the theaters aud
opera houses, plaintiffs, VS.. God Almighty.
defendant; the suit has been begun and
who shall come out ahead, you know
Whether it be popular or unpopular, !
now announce IL as my opinion that the
people have no rights save those which
the great Jehovah gives them He has
never given the right to man to break
his holy Sabbath, and as long as his
throne stands, he never will give that
right
The prophet asks a question which l