Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-06-30
THE SABBATH REST.
THEME or REV. DR.. TALMAcE's
PRESS SERMON.

PRESS SERMON.
Although Far From Home, He Sends Back
Eloquent and Forccful Words In Defense
Of sunday Rest---The American Sabbath
aud the European Sabbath.
BROOKLYN, june "a For today Rev.
DR.. Talmage has chosen subject Of
worldwide interest as the theme OF his
sermon through the press--viz. the me-
ccssity of guarding the Christian Sab
bath against invasions that aim at its
destruction The text selected was Ex
odus XXI. ls. Verify, my Sabbaths ye
shall keep
The wisdom of cessation from hard
labor one day out Of the seven is almost
universally acknowledged. The world
has found ont that it can do less work
in seven days than in six. and that the
So days of the year devoted to rest are
an addition rather than subtraction.
Experiments have been made in all de-
partments. The great Lord Castlereagh
thought he could work his brain 1865
days in the year, but after awhile broke
down and committed suicide, and Will
berforcc said Of him: Poor Castle
reaghl This is the result Of the Ionob-
servance Of the Sahbathr'
A celebrated merchant declared. u
should have been a maniac long ago but
for the Sabbath p" The nerves. the brain.
the muscles the bones, the entire phys
zeal, intellectual and moral nature cry
out for the Sabbatic rest What is true
of nlan is. for the most part, true of the
brute. Travellers have found ont that
they come to their places of destination
sooner when they let their horses rest
by the way on tho Sabbath What is
the matter with those foriorn creatures
Why do they stumble and stagger and
fall? Ii is for the lack Of tho Sabbatic
rest.
Necessity For . Halt.
In other days. when the herdsmen
drove their sheep and cattle from the
far west down to the seahoard. it was
found ont by experiment that those
herdsmen and drovers who halted over
the seventh day got down sooner to the
seaboard than those who passed on with
out the observance OF the holy Sabbath
Tho fishermen off the coast of New
fonndland declare that those men during
the year catch the most fish who stop
during the Lords day
When ! asked the Rocky mountain
locomotive engineer why he changed
locomotives when it seemed to be- a
straight route, he said 1--WE have to let
the locomotive stop and cool off. or the
machinery would soon break down. "
Men who made large quantities Of salt
Were told that if they allowed their ket-
ties to cool over Sunday they would
submit themselves to great deal of
damage. The experiment was made.
some observing the Sabbath, aud some
not observing the Sabbath. Those who
allowed the fires to go down and the
kettles to cool onco week were COM
PEELED to spend only few pennies i'll
the way of repairs, while in the cases
where no Sabbath was observed many
dollars were demanded for repairs
III other words. intelligent man,
dumb beast and dead machinery cry out
Tor the Lords day. Bnt while the at,
tempt to kill the Sabbath by the stroke
of AK and ilail and yardstick has Lcau
1fully failed it is proposed III our day
to drown the Sabbath by flooding it
with secular amusements They would
bury it very decently under the wreath
Of the target company and to the music
of all brazen Instruments.
There are today in the different cities
10. 900 hands and 10, 600 pens busy IL
attempting to aut out the heart of olr
Christian Sabbath and leave it bleed
ing skeleton of what it once was The
effort is organized 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 III the land where the
Sabbath has almost persisted. and it is
becoming a practical question whether
we who received pure Sabbath from
the hands of our fathers shall have piaty
and pluck enough to give to our ehii
dreB the SAINT blessed inheritance Tie
eternal God helping us. we will
Sunday Amu>emcnts-
protest against this invasion Of the
holy Sabbath in tho first plarc because
it is Il war on Divine enactment God
says in Isaiah, ''lf thou turn away thy
foot from doing thy pleasure on my holy
day. thou shalt walk upon the hi@l,
thy pIeasure?" He referred to secular
and worldly anlusencnts. a man told
me he was never 50 much frightened as
IN the midst of an earthquake, when the
beasts of the field beloved III fear and
even the barnyard fowls screamed in ter.
lor Well, it was when the earth was
shaking and the sky was all full of iro
that God made the great announcement.
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it
holy. "
iu through the streets where the
theaters are open on Il Sabbath night,
60 up on the steps, eutee the boxes of
those places of entertainment and tell
me if that is keeping the Sabbath holy
"Oh, says some one. God won't be
displeased with Il grand sacred concertl"
A gentleman who was present at a
grand sacred concert" one Sababtll
night i'll one of the theaters Of ouI great
rities said that during the exercises
there were comic and sentimental scnes.
iDterspersed with coarse jokes, and
there were dances. and farce and
tight rope walking. and a trapeze per
Torrance suppose it was holy dance
and a consecrated tight rope That is
what they call grand sacled con
cert. 81"
We hear great deal of talk about
the rights of the people" to have just
such amusements on Sunday as they
want to have. wonder if the Lord has
any rights You rule your family. the
governor rules the state; the president
rules the whole land wonder if the
Lord has RICH: to rule the nations and
make the enactment, Remember the