The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-11
SAVE THE SABBATH.
REV. DIR. TALMAGe CHOOSES A SUB
JEcT or WIDE INTEREST.



aud ruipits 10 Respond In Defense Of tho
Holy Day-A Nationni Peril Eioauentiy
Outlined.
lHOoELYN, june 2i-For today Rev
Dr. 1almaRc has chosen asubicct Of world
wide interest az the theme of his sermon
through the prcss--viz, tho necessity of
guarding the Christian Sabbath AGAINST
invnsions that aim at its destruction. The
text selected was Exodus XXI, 13, Verify
my Sabhaths We shall keep"
Tho wisdom Of cessation from hard la
bor one day out Of the seven is almost uni.
ycrsnlly acknowledged. The world has
fund out that it can do less work in
tcvcn days than In six, and that the 80
! days Of the year devoted to rest arc an nd-
diton rather than n subtraction. Ex-
pcriments have been made in all depart
mcnts. The great Lord Castlereaph
| thought he could work his brain 8G5 DAYS
in the year, but after awhile broke down
and committed suicide, and Wilberforcc
said of HIM Poor Castlcreaghl This is
the result of the nonobscrvance OF the
Sabbathr'
A celebrated merchant declared, n
should have been n maniac long ago but
for the sabbath" Tho nerves, the brain.
the muscles the bones the entire physic
! al intellectual and moral nature cry out
| for the Sabbatio 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 harnesscd to some
] g .. ii Il. II.
staggcr and fallY IL is for the lack Of the
| Sabbatlc rest
In other words, when the hcrdsmeu
drove their sheep and cattle from the far
west down to the scaboard, it was found
ont by experiment that those herdsmcn
and drovers who halted over the seventh
day got down sooner to the scaboard than
those who passed on without the obscrv-
ancc of the holy Sabbath The fishermen
off the coast of Newfoundland declare that
those men during the year catch the most
fish who stop during the Lords day.
Need of the Lords Day.
When asked the Rocky mountain en-.
gineer why he changed locomotives when
it seemed to he "a straight route, he said,
I'VE have to let the locomotive s,op and
cool off or the machinery would soon break
down" Men who made large quantities
of salt were told that if they allowed their
kettles to cool over Sunday they would
submit themselves to great deal of dam.
age. The experiment was made, some OBJ
| serving the sabbath and some not observ
| ing the Sabbath. Those who allowed the
| fires to go down and the kettles to cool
once n week were compelled to spend only
n few pennies in the way of repairs while
in the cnscs where no Sabbath was ob'crv-
cd many dollars were demanded for re
pairs,
In other words intelligent man, dumb
beast and dead machinery cry out for the
Lords day. But while the attempt to
Kill the sabbath by the stroke of ak and
fail and yar,lstcll has beautifully failed
it is proposed in our day to drown the
sabbath by flooding it with secular amuse-
mcnts. They would bury it very decent.
ly under the wreath OF the target company
and to the music Of all brazcn instruments
There are today in the different cities
10000 hands and 10000 pens busy in at
tempting to cut out the heart of our Chris
tian Sabbath and leave it IA bleeding skele-
ton of what it once was. The effort is or
ganized 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
persisted, and it is becoming IL practical
question whether we who received pure
| Sabbath from the hands of our fathers
shall have picty and pluck enough to give
to our children the same blessed inherit
ancc. The eternal God helping us, we will!
! Sunday Theaters.
/ protest against this invasion of the
holy Sabbath in the first place because it is
n 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 plcasureS" He
| referred to secular and worldly amuse-
ments. A man told me he was never so
much frightened as in the midst of an
earthquake, when the beasts of the field
Followed in fear and even the barnyard
fowls screamed in terror. Well, it was
when the earth was shaking and the sky
was all full of fire that God made the
great announcement, Remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy"
Go through the streets where the thea.
tiers are open on n Sabbath night go up
on the steps; enter the boxes of those
places of entertainment, and tell me II
that Is keeping the Sabbath holy oh"
says some one, God won't be displcased
with grand sacred concert" A gentle
man who was present at grand sacred
concert" one Sabbath night in one of the
| theaters of our great cities said that dur
ing the exercises there were comic and SEN
timental songs interspersed with coarse
jokes and there were dances, and farce,
and tight rope walking and a trapcze per-
fnrmnnpp | "A hnI poc
and n consecrated tight rope. This is what
they call II grand sacred concert,
We hear II great deal of talk about ''thc
rights of the people, to have just such
amusements on Sunday as they want to
have. l wonder If the Lord has any rights.
You rule your family; the governor rules
the state; tho president rules the whole
| land j wonder if the Lord has II right
to rule the nations and make the enact
| ment, "Remembcr the Sabbath day to
| keep it holy" and If there is any appeal
| to "a higher court from that decision, and
II the men who are warning against that
| enactment are not guilty of high treason
against the Maker of heaven and earth.
| They have in our cities put God on trial
1t has been the theaters and tine opera
| houses, plaintiffs, versus tho Lord Al
mighty, defendant. The suit has been be-
gun and who shall come out ahead you
know. Whether it be popular or unpopu-
| lar, l now announce it as my opinion that
the people have no rights save those which
the great Jehovah gives them. lie has
never given the right to man to break his
holy Sabbath and as long as his throne
stands he never will give that right.
Mean Thing.
The prophet asks n question which can