The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-11


the stopped shoulder. and the white hair.
Morning for one Morning for all Good
morning. In Gods name, good morn
ingi
In our last dreadful war the federals
and cOnfederates were encamped on OPP
posite sides of the Rappahannocl1. and
| one morning the brass band Of the
northern troops played the national air.
ana All the northern troops eheered and
/ cheered- Then on the opposite side of
the Rappahannock the brass band OF
| the cOnfederates played My Maryland
| and Dixie" and then all the southern
| troops cheered and cheered. But after
| n while one of the bands struck uD
| Home, Sweet Home" and the band on
| the opposite side Of the river took up
| the strain, and when the tune was done
! the confederates and federals all to-
| gether united the tears rolled down
| their cheeks. in one great huZza! huZZai
| Wen. my friends. heaven comes very
| near today. 1t is only stream that
| divides uS-the narrow stream of death
| and the voices there and the voices
! here seem TO commingle, and we join
trumpetS and hOSannahS and hallelujahS,
and the chorus of the united song of
| earth and heaven is Home Sweet
| Home" Home of bright domestic circle
on earthl Hcme of forgiveness in the
] great heart OF Godi Home of eternal
| rest i'm heaven! Home, Home, Home!
The Seventh Day Sacred.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake
up in the hotel. You have had d longer
sleep than usual You say: Where am
I? A thousand miles from home?
have no family to take to church to-
day. Ny pastor will not expect my
presence. l thing l shall look over my
accounts and study my memorandum
| book Then / write a few business
| letters and talk to that merchant who
/ m NJ fFafn will mo-
| StOpi You cannot afford To do il.
! But you say. I am worth $500, 00O.'
You cannot afford 10 do it. You say, I
| am worth Sl,O00,000." You cannot afford
! TO do il. All you gain by breaking the
| Sabbath you viii lose. You will lose one
| of three things-your intellect, your
! morals, or your prOperty-and you cam
| not point in the whole earth to single
| exception 10 this rule God gives us
| six days and keeps one for Himself.
| Now, if we try to get the seventh, He
| viii upset the work of all the other six.
| ! remember going up Mt. Washington,
! 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 a very steep ana
| 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 full of peril
| we must at least one day in seven stop
|
/ and our souls re-equipped. The seven
| days of the week are like seven business
| partners, and you must give 10 each
| one his share, or the business will De
! broken up. God is 50 generous with us;
/ He has given you six DAYS to His one.
| New, 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 one
| and loses all the six.
! Cutting the sabbath.
How few men there are who know
| how to keep the Lords day away from
| home. 4 great many who are consist
| ent on the banks OF the St. Lawrence, OF
| the Alabama or the Mississippi are not
| consistent when they get so far off as
1 the East river. / repeat-though il is
/ putting it on low ground-you cannot
| financially afford To break the Lords
| day. II is only another way of tearing
up your government securities and put
| ting down the price OF goods and blow
| ing up your store 7 have friends vino
are all the time slicing off pieces Of the
sabbath. They cut a little of the Sab
| bath off that end and a little off that
| end. They do not keep tWenty-four
hours The bible says, Remember the
Sabbath day, TO keep it holy.
/ have good friends who are accus-
toned To leaving Albany by the mid
night train on Saturday night and get
! tins home before church. Now, there
may be occasions when it 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 10
stand up by your side and preach-you,
a Christian man, killed on rail train
travelling on a Sunday morning. RE
Ia "a IN
holy" What does that mean? Il means
twenty-fOur hours. \ man owes you
dollar. You don't want him to pay YOU
80 cents. You want the dollar. II God
demands Of Us twenty-four hours out of
the week. he means tWenty-fOur hours
and not nineteen. oh, we want 10 keep
vigilantly in this country the American
sabbath and not have transplanted 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 popu-
Iation rush out toward the country with
baskets and bundles, and toward night
they come back tagged out, cross and in
toxicated. A1ay Cod preserve to US our
glorious quiet, American Sabbaths.
Into the Tower of Gods Mercy.
oh. strangers. welcome TO the great
city. May you find Christ here, and not
any physical or moral damage. Men
coming 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 We're brought to
this place merely for the purpose of
sightseeing. Perhaps Coo brought you
10 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
pardoning and sympathetic Christ VINO
knows but the city which has been the
destruction of SO many may be your
eternal redemption?
\ good many years ago Edward Stan
ley, the English commander, with his
regiment, took a fort. The fort was
manned by some 800 Spaniards. Edward
Stanley came close up to the fort leav-
ing his men, when a Spaniard thrust at
him with a spear, intending 10 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 regiment leaped
after him. and the fort was taken. So
city influences which have destroyed 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 conaueror
through the grace of Him who has prom
ised an especial benediction TO those