Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-04-26

men are succumbing TO the worst Sa'
tanic influences, in the simple fact
that they are going to observe. Now
Il man or woman shall go 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 agaist such perils, if as
did John Howard, or Elizabeth Fry OF
Thomas Chalmers, they go down
among the abandoned for the sake OF
saving them, then such explorers shall
be God-protected and they will come
out better that when they went in.
But if you go on this work of explora-
ton merely for the purpose of satisfy
ing morbid curiosity, | will take 90
per cent off your moral character.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake
up in a hotel. You have had longer
sleep than usual. You say: where
am L? thousand miles from home? |
have no family to take to church to-
day. Ny pastor will not expect my
presence. / think shall look over my
accounts and study my memorandum
book. Then I will write a few BUSH
ness letters. and talk to that merchant
who came in on the same train with
me" Stop. you cannot afford 10 do it.
But, you say, 81 am worth five
hundred thousand dollars" You can
not afford to do it, You say, Il am
worth a million dollars. You cannot
afford to do 1t. All you gain by break
ing the sabbath you will lose. You
viii lose one Of three things: your in
tellect, 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, lie viii upset the work of all
the other six.
/ remember going up Mount Wash
ington 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
and straighten the saddle. And 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 readjusted, and our
souls re-equipped. The seven days of
the week are like seven business part
ners, 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 who has seven apples,
and he gives Six to his greedy boy pro-
posing to keep one 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 It.
Lawrence, or the Alabama, or the Miss.
issippi are not so consistent when they
get SO far off as the East river. re-
peat-though it is putting it on low
ground-you cannot financially afford
to break the Lords day. II is only an
other way Of tearing up your govern
ment 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. |
They cut little of the sabbath off that |
end. and a 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 !
accustomed to leaving Albany by the
train on Saturday night and
getting home before church Now
there may be occasions when it is
right, but generally it is wrong. How, il
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 awk-
ward thing for me to stand mp by your
side and preach-you, Christian man.
killed on a railroad train travelling on
sunday morning. Remember the
sabbath day, to keep II holy. What
does that mean? 1t means twenty-four
hours. A man owes you a dollar.
You don't want him TO pay you ninety
sents YOU want the dollar. If God de-
nands of us twenty-four hours out Of
lie week, He means twenty-four hours
and not nineteen. 0. we want to keep
in this country the American
sabbath, and not have transplanted
lere the European sabbath, which for
,he most part is no sabbath at all. If
inv of you have been in Paris, you
know that on sabbath morning the
-ast population rush out toward the
country with baskets and bundles and
.oward night they come back tagged
tut, cross and intoxicated. May God
preserve to us our glorious quiet Amer
cae Sabbaths.
o, strangers. welcome to the great
.ity. May you find Christ here, and
lot any physical or moral damage.
lien coming from inland, from distant
titles. have here found God and found
lin in our service. Nav this be your
ase to-day. You thought you We're
,rought to this place merely for the
purpose of sight seeing. Perhaps God
You to this roaring city for
he ,urnose of working ont your eter-