Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-04-11

cane cheat me. 7 know what l am
about, " while at thssame time, that very
moment, ,suchmen are succuuhbing to the
worst satanic influences in the simple
fact that they are going to observe.
Now, il man or woman shall 60 down
into a haunt Of iniquity for the purpose
of reforming men and women or for the
sake Of being able intelligently to warn
people against such perils; if, as did
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 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 will take 20 per cent off your
moral character.
PERILoUs ROAD.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake
up In the hotel. You have had a longer
sleep than usual You say: Where am
L? A thousand miles from homer have
no family to take to church today, My
pastor will not expect my presence. /
think shall look over my accounts and
study my memorandum book. Then !
will write a few business letters and
talk to that merchant who came in ON
the same train with me-" Stopl You
cannot afford to do it.
''But," you say, II am worth $780,
000." You cannot afford to do it. You
say, "'I am worth 81, 900, 000." You
cannot afford to doit. Allyou 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.
remembers 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 have to tell
you that this road of life is SO steep and
full OF perilfwe must at least one day
in seven stop and have the harness of
life readjusted and our souls re-equip-
ped. The seven days Of the week are
like seven business partners, and you
must give to each one his share, or the
business will be broken up God is SC
/ generous with us-he has given you six
i DAYS to his one. Now, here is father
who has seven apples, and he gives si4
to his greedy boy, proposing to keep one
for himself. The greedy boy grabs fol
the other one and loses all the six.
How few men there are who know
how to keep the Lords day away from
homeI A great many who are consisten
on the banks of the st. Lawrence, or th'
Alabama, or the Mississippi are not con
Rsistent when they get SO far off as the Eas
river. repeat---though it is putting i
on low ground--you cannot financial.
afford to break the Lords day. 1t
only another way of tearing up you
!. government securities and putting dow
I the price of goods and blowing up you
store. ! have friends who are all tn
J time slicing off pieces of the Sabbath
They cut a little of the Sabbath off tina
end and little Of the Sabbath off thi
J end. They do not keep the "a hours
The Bible says, Remember the Sabbatl
day, to keep it holy. 4"
1 have good friends who are quite &C
customed to leaving Albany by the mid
night train on Saturday night and get
J ting home before church. Now, ther
/ may be occasions when 1t is right, bu
generally it is wrong. How if the trai
! should run off the track into the Mort
| river? hope your friends will not sen
to me to preach your funeral sermon.
would be an awkward thing for me
! stand up by your side and preach, you
"a Christian man, killed ON rail trai
travelling ON Sunday morning. RI
J member the Sabbath day to keep
} holy" What does that mean? 1t NEAR
"a hours. A man owes you a dollar. Yo
, don't want him to pay you 90 cent
. You want the dollar. If God demanC
of us "a hours out of the week, he meal
4 "a hours and not 10. Oh, we want
! keep vigilantly in this country IL
7 American Sabbath and not have tran
t planted here the European Sabbatl
which for the most part is no Sabbath
Q all If any of you have been in Paris, yo
: know that ON Sabbath morning the va
4 population rush out toward the count
b with baskets and bundles, and towai
, night they come back tagged out, Gro
!. and intoxicated. May God preserve 10
I our glorious, quiet American Sabbath
: Oh, strangers, welcome 30 the gre
cityl May you find Christ here, and n
q any phymcal or moral damage. Men con
o ing from inland, from distant cite
have here found God and found him
Il our service. May that be your case I
L day. You thought you Were brought
o this place merely for the purpose Of sigh
s seeing. Perhaps God brought you TO th
?. roaring city for the purpose OF workiI
o ont your eternal salvation. Go back
I, your homes and tell them how you m
!. Christ here, the loving. patient pardo
X ing and sympathetic Christ Who moN
8 but the city which has been the destru
n ton Of so many may be your eternal I
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