Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-06-28

Holy Day-A National Peril Eloquently
Outlined.
BROOKLYN, June 24--For today Rev
DR.. Talmag2 has chosen subject of world
wide interest as the theme of his sermon
through tls prcss-viz tho necessity of
guarding the Christian Sabbath against
invasions that aim at its destruction. Tho
text selected was Exodus XXI 10, Verify
my Sabbaths ye shall keep"
The wisdom of cessation from hard la
Dor one day out of the seven is almost uni
versally acknowledged. The world has
found out that it can do less work In
seven days than in six, and that the 3?
days of the year devoted to rest are an adj
dition rathes than subtraction. Elk
periments haSe been made In all depart
ments. The great Lord CastlCrcagh
thought he could work his brain 800 days
in the yea, but after awhile broke down
and committed suicide, and Wherefore
said OF him: Poor Castlercaghl This Is
the result of the nonobscrvancc of tho
Sabbath
A celebrated merchant declared, 81
should have been q maniac long ago but
for the sabbath" The nerves, the brain,
the muscles, the bones, the entire physic-
al, intellectual and moral nature cry out
for the Snbbatic rest. What is true of man
is for the most part true Of the brute.
Travellers have found out that they come
to their places of destination sooner when
they let their horses rest by the way on
the Sabbath. What is the matter with
those forlorn creatures hnrncsscd to somo
of the city cars? Why do they stumble and
staggcr and fail? 1t is for the lack of the
Sabbatic rest.
In other words, when the herdsmen
drove their sheep and cattle from the far
west down to the scaboard, it was found
out by experiment that those herdsmcn
and drovcrs who halted over the seventh
day got down sooner to the sCaboard than
those who passed on without the observ-
ance of the holy Sabbath. The fishermen
off the coast of Newfoundland declare that
those men digging the year catch the most
fish who stop during the Lords day.
Need of the Lords Day.
When l asked the Rocky mountain en-
gineer why he changed locomotives when
1t 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
kettles to cool over Sunday they would
submit themselves to q great deal of dam
age. The experiment was made, some OBJ
serving the Sabbath and some not obseTv
ing the Sabbath. Those who allowed tho
fires to go down and the kettles to cool
once a week were compelled to spend only
few pennies in the way of repairsa while
in the cases where no Sabbath was observ-
ed many dollars were demanded for re-
pairs.
In other words, intelligent man, dumb
beast and dead machinery cry out for the
Lords day. But while the attempt to
kill the Sabbath by the stroke of ay and
fail and yardstick has beautifully failed
1t is proposed in our day to drown the
Sabbath by flooding 1t with secular amuse-
ments They would bury it very decent
~ under the wreath Of the target company
and to the music Of all brazen instruments.
There are today in the different cities
TO- 900 hands and 10, 900 pens busy in at
tempting to cut out the heart of our Chris
tian Sabbath and leave 1t a bleeding skele-
ton Of what 1t once was. The effort is Or
gained 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 c h,7s IN
the land whore the Sabbath has almost
perished and it is becoming a practical
question whether we who received a pure
Sabbath from the hands of our fathers
shall have piety and pluck enough to give
to our children tho same blessed inherit
anco. The eternal God helping us, we will
Sunday Tbeaters.
I protest against this invasion of the
holy Sabbath in the first place because it is
war OH divine enactment. God says in
Isaiah, If thou turn away thy foot from
doing thy pleasure on my holy day, thou
shalt walk upon the high places" What
did he mean by doing thy pleasuref" He
referred to secular and worldly amuse
ments. A man told me he was never sc
much frightened as in the midst of ar
earthquake, when the beasts of the field
beloved in fear and even the barnyard
fowls screamed in terror. Well, 1t was
when the earth was shaking and the Sky
was all full of fire that God made the
great announcements Remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy"
Go through the streets where the thea
tiers are open on a Sabbath night; go VI
on the steps; enter the boxes of thosC
places OF entertainments and tell me i
that is Keeping the Sabbath holy. ooh,
says some one, God won't be displeaset
with grasl sacred concert A gentle
man who was present at grand sacret
concert one Sabbath night in one Of thu
theaters OF our great cities said that dur
ing the exercises there were comic and sen
timental songs, intcrsperscd with coars
jokes, and there We're dances, and farce
and tight rope walking. and a trapeze per
Torrance. | suppose it was holy dance
and consecrated tight rope. This is wha
they call grand sacred concert.
We hear a great deal of talk about thu
rights of the people, to have just sucl
amusements on Sunday as they want t.
have. l wonder if The Lord has any rights
You rule your family; the governor rule
the state, the president rules the who'll
land, l wonder if the Lord has RICH
to rule the nations and make the enact
ment, Remember the Sabbath day tt
keep it holy" and if there is any appea
to a higher court from that decision, ant
If the men who are warning against tina
enactment are not guilty of high Treason
against tho Maker Of heaven and earth
They have in our cities put God on trial
1t has been the theaters and the oper