Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-04-20

the hotel. You have had a longer sleep
than usual. You say "where am II A
thousand miles from homs?-~I have no fam
lily TO take to church to-day. My pastor will
not expect my presence. / think l shall look
over my accounts and study my memoran'
DUN DOCK. Then l will write few business
| letters and talk to that merchant who came
In on the same train with me-" Stop! You
cannot afford to do II. o.
!. but" you say, II am worth $500, 900. =
You cannot afford to do 1t. You say. "I am
worth Sl,OOO,OO You cannot afford TO do
IT, All you gain by breaking the Sabbath
| you VIII lose. You will lose one of three
tnlngs-your intellect. your morals or your
property-and you cannot point In the whole
earth to single exception to this rule. Col
gives us six days and keeps one for Himself.
Now, II we try to get the seventh, He will
upset the work Of all the other six.
remember going up Mount Washington,
before railroad had been built, to the
Tip-Top House, and the guide would come
around to our horses and stop us when we
were crossing very steep and dangerous
place, and he would tighten the girth of the
| horse and straighten the saddle And 1 have
| to tell you that this road of life is so steep
| and full OF peril we must at least one day in
seven stop and have the harness of life read
Justed and our souls re-equipped. The seven
days of the week arc like seven business
partners. and you must give to each one his
share, or the business will be broken up.
God Is go generous with us-He has given
you six days TO His one. Now, here is a
I father who has seven apples, and he gives
six T. his greedy boy. proposing to keep one
for himself. The greedy boy grabs for the
other one AMI loses all the six
How few men there are who know how to
keep the Lords day away from home
great many who are consistent on the banks
OF the st. Lawrence, or the Alabama, or the
Mississippi are not consistent when they get
so far off as the East River. l repeat
though it is putting it on low ground
you cannot financially afford TO break the
Lords day. II is only another way of tear
ing up your Government securities and put
ting down the price OF goods and blowing up
your store. have friends who are all the
time slicing off pieces of the Sabbath. They
cut a little of the Sabbath off that end and
little of the Sabbath off this end They
do not keep the twenty-four hours The
Bible says, Remember the Sabbath day, to
keep it holy"
| have good friends who are quite accus.
toned to leaving Albany by the midnight
before church. Now, there may be occasion
when it is right, but generally it is wrong.
How II the train should run off the track into
the North River2 hope your friends will
not send TO me to preach your funeral SER
mon. It would be an awkward thing for me
TO stand up by your side and preach, you, a
Christian man, killed on rail train travel
Ing on Sunday morning Remember the
Sabbath day 10 keep it holy" What does
that mean2 1t means twenty-four hours
A man owes you a dollar. You don't want
him TO pay you ninety cents You want the
dollar II God demands Of us twenty-four
hours out fthe week. He means twenty-four
hours, and not nineteen. Oh, we want to
keep vigilantIy in this country the
American Sabbath and not have trans
planted here the European Sabbath, which
for the most part is no Sabbath at all. II any
of you have been in Paris. you know that on
Sabbath morning ths vast population rush
out toward the country with baskets and
bundles, and toward nignt they come back
tagged oct cross and intoxicated. May Col
preserve to us Our glorious, qulet American
Sabbaths. .
Oh. strangers, welcome to the great city
May you find Christ here, and not any pbysi-
cal or moral damage Men coming from in
land, from distant cities, have here fond
God and found Him In our service. May
that be your case to-day You thought you
were brought to this merely for the purpose
of Sightseeing Perhaps God brought you
to this roaring city for the purpose Of work
ing out your eternal salvation. Go back to
your homes and tell them how you met
Christ here, the loving, patient, pardoning
and sympathetic Christ Who knows but the
city which has been the destruction of 80
many may be your eternal REDEEM ptjQn2
good many years ago Edward Stanley.
the English commander, with his regiment,
took fort. The fort was manned by some
800 Spaniards. Edward Stanley came close
up to the fort, leading his men, when Span
lard thrust at him with spear intending TO
destroy his life, but Stanley caught hold of
the spear. and the Spaniard, in attempting
to jerk the spear away from Stanley, lifted
him up into the battlements. No sooner had
Stanley taken his position on the battlements
than he swung his sword, and his whole reg
iment leaped after him, and the fort was
taken. SO it may be with you, o stranger.
The city influences which have destroyed so
many and dashed them down forever shall
be the means of lifting you up intothe tower
of Gods mercy and strength, your soul more
than conquered through the grace OF Him
who has promised an especial benedictlon to
those who shall treat you WELL saying, y
was stranger, and We took Me IL"