The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-04-18

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then such explorers shall be God pro-
tected, and they will come out better
than when they went in. But if you go
on this work Of exploration merely for
the purpose of satisfying a morbid curl
osity l will take 20 per cent off your
moral character.
A PERILOCs ROAD.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake
up III the hotel. You have had a longer
sleep than usual You say: Where I'm
I? A thousand miles from home? I have
no family to take to church today. My
pastor will not expect my presence. l
think I shall look over my accounts and
study my memorandum book. Then 1
will write a few business letters and
talk to that merchant who came in Oh
the same train with me-" Stop! You
cannot afford to do it.
But" you say, 81 am worth $780,
0OO." You cannot afford to do it. You
say, II am worth 1000, 000." You
cannot afford to do it. ALI 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 were crossing @ very steep
and dangerous place, and he would
tighten the girth Of the horse and
straighten the saddle And I have to tell
you that this road Of life is so steep and
full Of peril we must at least n day
in seven stop and have the harness Of
life readjusted and q souls re-equip-
ped. The seven days Of the week are
like seven business partners, and you
must give to each II his share, OF the
business will be broken up. God is so
generous with us-he has given you six
days to his one. Now, here is a father
who has seven apples, and he gives six
to his greedy boy, proposing to keep one
for himself. The greedy boy grabs for
the other n and loses all the six.
How few men there T 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 70 far off as the East
river. l repeat-though it is putting it
on a low ground-you cannot financially
afford to break the Lords day. It 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.
They cut a little of the Sabbath off that
end and a 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
I 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 it is right, but
generally it is wrong. How if the train
should run of the track INTO the North
river? / hope your friends VIII 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. yor
a Christian man, killed on a rail trai /
travelling on a Sunday morning. Re
member the Sabbath day to keep it
holy" What does that mean? It means
"a hours. Aman owes you a dollar. You
don't want him to pay You 80 cents
You want the dollar. IF God demands
of us "a hours out Of the week, hemeans
"a hours and not 10. 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 S
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 be your case to-
day. You thought you were brought to
this place merely for the purpose 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-
ton of so many may be your eternal re-
demption?
A good many years ago Edward Stan
ley, the English commander, with his
regiment, took a fort. The fort was
manned by some 800 Spaniards. Ed
ward Stanley came close up to the fort,