Democratic messenger., 1894-06-30

Although Far From Home, He sends Back
Eloquent and Forcefui Words In Defense
of Sunday Rest-The American Sabbath
and the European Sabbath.
BROOKLYN, June 24-For today Rev.
DIR. Talmage has chosen n subject of
worldwide interest as the theme of his
sermon through the press-viz, the ne
cessity of guarding the Christian Sab
bath against invasions that aim at its
destruction The text selected was Ex-
odus xxi, IS. Verify, my Sabbaths ys
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
90 days Of the year devoted to rest are
an addition rather than 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 Will
berforce said of him: Poor Castle
ANASAs 4hAo 40 tAC ACEuAt va thC AoHoO-
servance Of the Sabbath"
A celebrated merchant declared, IT
should have been maniac long ago but
for tho Sabbath. The nerves, the brain,
the muscles, the bones, the entire phys
ical, 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
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? It is for the lack of the Sabbatic
rest
Necessity For . Halt.
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
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 / asked the Rocky mountain
locomotive engineer why he changed
locomotives when it seemed TO be a
straight route, he said, I'VE have to let
the locomotive stop and cool of, or the
machinery would soon break down. a"
Men who made large quantities of salt
were told that il they allowed their ket-
ties 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 week were COM
PEELED TO spend only a few pennies in
the way of repairs, while in the cases
where no Sabbath 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 Ak 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 it very decently under the wreath
of the target company and to the music
Of all brazen instruments.
There are today in the different cities
10000 hands and 10. 900 pens busy in
attempting TO cut ont 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
be uttered after the castle is taken.
There are cities in the land where the
Sabbath has almost perished, and it is
becoming practical question whether
we who received a pure Sabbath from
the hands of our fathers shall have piety
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
IL is q 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 barnyard fowls screamed in ter
ror. Well, il 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.
go up on the steps, enter the boxes of
those places Of entertainment and tell
me IL that is keeping the Sabbath holy.
''Oh, says some one, God won't be
displeased with grand sacred concertr'
A gentleman who was present at a
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, and
there were dances, and a farce, and
tight rope walking, and trapeze per
formance. / suppose it was a holy dance
and a consecrated tight rope That is
what they call grand sacred con-
cert.
We hear great deal Of talk about
1.-THE rights Of the people" to have just
such amusements ON Sunday as they
want 10 have. Iwonder if the Lord has
any rights. You rule your family; the
governor rules the state; the president
rules the whole land wonder if the
Lord has a right to rule the nations and
make the enactment, Remember the