The Red Cloud chief., 1894-04-20

,'N'v AhV u hhOW VIM u utf
, about, while at the same time, that yer,
moment, such men are succumbing to tn,
worst satanic influences in the simpl,
fact that they are going to observe
Now, IL a man or woman shall 20 dowr
into a haunt of iniquity for the purpos,
OF reforming men and women or for tn,
sake of being able intelligently to war;
people against such perils; il, rs die
John Howard or Elizabeth Fry or Thorn
as Chalmers, they go down among the
abandoned for the sake of saving them,
then such explorers shall be God pro
tected, and they will come out bette,
than when they went in. But il you &c
on this work of exploration merely fol
the purpose Of satisfying q morbid curl.
osity l will take 20 per cent off your
moral character.
APERILoUs ROAD.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake
up in the hotel. You have had q longer
sleep than usual. You say: "Where am
l! A thousand miles from home? / have
no family to take TO church today. NY
pastor Will not expect my presence. I
think l shall look over my accounts and
study my memorandum book. Then I
will write n few business letters and
tax TO that merchant who camo in on
the same train with me-" Stop! You
cannot afford to do 1t.
But, you say, II am worth $500.
600. You cannot afford to do it. You
say, Il am worth 81, 900, OOO." You
capnot afford to do 1t. All 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 q very steep
n dangerous place, and he would
tighten the girth of the horse and
straighten tho saddle. And l have to tell
you that this road Of life is so steep and
fuil OF peril We must at least one day
in seven stop and have the harness OF
LIE readJusted and our souls re.equip.
ped. The seven days of the week are
like v business partners. and Won
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 a father
who has seven apples, and he gives six |
70 his greedy boy, proposing to keep one
Tor himself. The greedy boy grabs for |
the other ono 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 st. Lawrence, or the
Alabama, or the Mississippi are not con-.
sistent when thoy get SO far off as the East
river: l repeat-though it is putting it
on u 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. l have friends who are ali the
slicing off pieces Of the Sabbath.
They cut a little of the Sabbath off that
end and n little of the Sabbath off this
md. They do not keep the "a hours.
The Bible says, Remember the Sabbath
day. to keep it holy"
l have good friends who are quite ac.
customcd to leaving Albany by tho mid.
night train on Saturday night and get.
ing home before church. Now, there
nay be occasions when it is right, but
generally it is wrong. How if the train
mould u of the track into the North
lver! hope your friends will not send
o mo to preach your funeral sermon. 1t
you'd be an awkward thing for me to
and up by your side and preach, Won.
Christian man, killed ON a rail train
raveling OH a Sunday morning. Ere.
member the Sabbath day to keep 1t ,
What does that mean? 1t means \
a hours A man owe you q dollar. You
ont want him to pay you 90 cents.
GU want the dollar. If God demands
I us "a hours out Of the week, he means
. hours and not 10. Oh, we want to
eep vigilantly in this country the
Sabbath and not have trans.
lanted here the European Sabbath.
a, "ioos paw 10 iO OuDDutn aC -
If any OF You have been in Paris, Won |
now that OH Sabbath morning the vast
opulation rush out toward tho country :.
iith baskets and bundles, and toward
ight they come back tagged out, cross
intoxicated. May God preserve to MS
ur glorious, quiet American Sabbaths,
On, strangers, welcome to the great
lty! May you find Christ here, and not
ny physical or moral damage. Men COM.
~ from inland, from distant cities.
ave here found God and found him in 4.
ar service. May that be your case to. ]
ny. You thought you were brought to
lis place merely for the purpose of sight.
'eing' Perhaps God brought You TO thi,
city for the purpose of working !.
ut your eternal salvation. Go back TO
our homes and tell them how YOU met
hrist here, the loving, patient, pardon.
and sympathetic Christ. Who knows
the city which has been the destruc,
on OF so many may be your eternal re.
'mption?