Democratic messenger., 1894-04-14


about. while at the same time, that very
moment, such men are esuccumbing To the
worst satanic influences i'll the simple
fact that they are going to observe.
Now, If IL man or woman shall 20 down
into a haunt of iniquity for the purpose
of reforming men and women or for the
sake Of being able intelligently to warn
people against such perils; if. rs did
John Howard or Elizabeth Fry or Thorn
as Chalmers, they go down among the
abandoned for the sake of saving them,
then such explorers shall be God pro-
tected, and they will come out better
than when they went in. But if you 90
on this work of exploration merely for
the purpose of satisfying morbid curl
osity l will take 20 per cent off your
moral character
A PERlI.oUS ROAD.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake
up i'll the hotel. You have had longer
sleep than usual. You say: Where am
l? A thousand miles from home. have
no family to take to church today. My
pastor will not expect my presence l
think shall look over my accounts and
study my memorandum book. Then l
will write few business letters and
talk to that merchant who came in on
the same train with me-" Stopl You
cannot afford to do it,
But, you say, II am worth $500,
600. !" You cannot afford to do it, You
say. II am worth 81, 900. OOO" You
cannot afford to do it. All you gain by
breaking the Sabbath you will lose You
will lose one of three things-your intel
lect, your morals or your prOperty-and
You cannot point in the whole earth to
a single exception to this rule God gives
US six days and keeps one for himself.
Now, if We try to get the seventh, he
will upset the work of all the other six
remember going up Mount Washing
ton, before the railroad had been built.
to the Tip-Top House. and the guide
would come around to our horses and stop
Us when we We're crossing very steep
and dangerous place. and he would
tighten the girth of the horse and
straighten the saddle. And have to tell
you that this road of life is SO steep and
ok PCLAA VIC LluSt at AcsiSl Oiit usiN
in seven stop and have the harness Of
life readjusted and our souls re-equip-
ped The seven days of the week are
like seven business partners, and you
must give to each one his share, or the
business will be broken up. God is so
generous with us-he has given you six
days to his one Now, here is father
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to his greedy boy. proposing to keep one
for himself. The greedy boy grabs for
the other one and loses all the six
How few men there are who know
how to keep the Lords day away from
home. A great many who are consistent
on the banks Of the st. Lawrence, or the
Alabama, or the Mississippi are not con-
sistent when they get SO far off as the East
river. repeat-though it is putting it
OH low ground-you cannot financially
afford to break the Lords day. 1t is
only another way of tearing up your
government securities and putting down
the price of goods and blowing up your
store. have friends who are all the
time slicing off pieces of the Sabbath.
tut - AAttAC Va tlkC s1hUoatu tLI0t
end and q little of the Sabbath off this
end. They do not keep the "a hours
The Bible says, Remember the Sabbath
day. to keep it holy"
have good friends who are quite ac-
customed to leaving Albany by the mid
night train ON Saturday night and get
ting home before church. Now. there
may be occasions when il is right. but
generally it is wrong. How if the train
should run off the track INTO the North
river? hope your friends will not send
to me to preach your funeral sermon. 1t
would be an awkward thing for me to
stand up by your side and preach. you.
a Christian man, killed OH rail train
travelling on Sunday morning. RE
member the Sabbath day To keep it
holy" What does that mean: Ii means
"a hours. A man owes you dollar You
don't want him to pay You 80 cents.
You want the dollar. Ii God demands
of us "a hours out of the week, he means
"a hours and not ~ Oh. we want to
keep vigilantly 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 If any of you have been in Paris. You
know that ON Sabbath morning the vast
population rush out toward the country
with baskets and bundles and toward
night they come back tagged out. cross
and intoxicated May God preserve to Us
our glorious. quiet American Sabbaths.
Oh, strangers, welcome To the great
city! May you find Christ here. and not
any physical or moral damage. Men com
ing from inland, from distant cities,
have here found God and found him in
our service. May that bc your case to-
day. You thought you We're brought To
this place merely for the purl use of sight
seeing. Perhaps God brought you TO this
roaring city for the purpose Of working
out your eternal salvation. Go back to
your homes and tell them how You met
Christ here. the loving. patient. pardon
ing and sympathetic Christ. Who knows
but the city which has been the destruc
tion Of SO many may be- your eternal re-
demption:
A good many years ago Edward Stan
ley. the English commander. with his
regiment, took fort The fort was
manned by some 800 Spaniards. Ed.
ward Stanley came close up TO the fort,
leading his men. when Spaniard
thrust at him with Il spear. intending to
destroy his life. but Stanley caught hold
of the spear. and the Spaniard in at
tempting to jerk the spear away from
Stanley lifted him up into the battle
ments Nosooner had Stanley taken his
position on the battlement. than lie
swung his sword. and his whole regi-
ment lcaped after him. and the fort was
taken. So it may be with you, . str:ln-
ger The city influences which have de.
stroyed so many and dashed them down
forever shall be the means of lifting you
up into the tower of Gods mercy and
strength, your soul more than conqueror
through the grace If him who has