Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-07-12
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 Ene-
mics of God and the
Public Veal.

OF Worldwide interest, the subject be
4 ing: The necessity of guarding tn,
Christian Sabbath against invasion
that aim at its destruction. The tex
selected was: Elk. xxi. IL, ''Verily, m,
Sabbath We shall keep"
The wisdom of cessation from hare
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 tc
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
REACH! This is the result Of the non
observance of the Sabbath
A celebrated merchant declared: ''I
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 Sabbatic 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
lby 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
Fail? 1t is for the lack of the Sabbatic
best
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
keaboard than those who passed on
without the observance of the holy
sabbath, The fishermen off the coast
hi Newfoundland declare that those
enen 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
Straight route. he said .'We have to
! ct the locomotive stop and cool OFF or
fhe machinery would soon break
Blown Men who made large quanti-
les Of salt were told that if they allowed
their kettles to cool over Sunday they
would submit themselves to great
Deal of damage. The experiment was
hade, some observing the sabbath and
some not observing the Sabbath. Those
svho allowed the fires to go down and
the- kettles to cool once a week were
to spend only few pennies
b the way of repairs; while in the cases
Ehere no sabbath was observed, many
Dollars were demanded for repairs.
In other words, intelligent man,
humb beasts and dead machinery cry
but for the Lords day. But while the
lttempt to kill the Sabbath day by the
stroke of AK and fail and yardsticlS has
failed, it is proposed in our
bav to drown the Sabbath by flooding
i with secular amusements. They |
Fould bury 1t very decently under the
wreath of the target company and to |
Ihe music of all,brazen instruments.
There are to-day in the different cit |
es, ten thousand hands and ten thou
land pens busy in attempting to cut |
but the heart of our Christian Sabbath,
Ind leave it bleeding skeleton of what
i once was. The effort is organized
Ind tremendous, and unless the friends
u Christ and the lovers of good order
hall rouse up right speedily, their SER
hons and protests will be uttered after
Die castle is taken. There are cities in
|he land where the Sabbath has almost
,erished. and 1t is becoming practical
question whether we who received a
'ure Sabbath from the hands of our faith
|rs shall have piety and pluck enough
p give to our children the same blessed
hheritance. The eternal God helping
s. we will!
protest against this invasion of the
loly Sabbath, in the first place, because
is war on divine enactment. God
! Us, in Isaiah: IF thou turn away
hy foot from doing thy pleasure on My
Ioly day thou shalt walk upon the high
lacesn What did He mean by doing
hy pleasure?" He referred to secular
lhd worldly amusements. A man told
le he was never so much frightened as
the midst of an earthquake, when
beasts of the field beloved in fear,
hd even the barn-yard fowls screamed
} terror. Well. it was when the earth
Tas shaking and the sky was all full of A..
r that God made the great announce
lent: Remember the Sabbath day to
PEP it holy"
Go through the streets where the the
ters are open on a Sabbath night; go
/ IN the steps; enter the boxes Of
bose places of entertainment, and tell
/ if that is keeping the Sabbath holy.
I. says someone, God won't be dis
leased with a grand sacred concert.
gentleman who was present at
brand sacred concert" one sabbath
ght in one of the theaters of our great
ties. said that during the exercises
lere were comic and sentimental !,
|ngs. interspersed with coarse jokes;
4Ea4.. ,,--.,., a., urrH a farce and Z ,