The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-06-30
THE
DR.. Talmage on the Necessity of Ite
Observance.
It Is Gods Day and Shout He Held Sacred
Tho Parislan Compared with the
American sunday-Man's Spir.
itual Welfare at stake.

The subject lately chosen by Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage as the theme Of
his sermon through the press vas one
of worldwide interest, viz, the neces-
sity of guarding the Christian Sabbath
against invasions that aim at its de-
struction. The text selected was Elk.
XXI. Is: verify, My Sabbath ye shall
keep" Following is the m
The wisdom of cessation from hard
labor one day out of seven is almost
universally acknowledged. The world
has found out that 1t car do less work
in seven days than In six, and that fifty
two days of the year devoted to rest
are an addition rather than a subtrac-
ton. Experiments have been made in
all departments. The great Lord Cas-
tlereagh thought he could work his
brain 365 days in the year, but after
awhile broke down and committed sui
eide; and Wilberforce said Of him:
Poor Castlereagh! This is the result
of the non-observance of the Sabbath
A celebrated merchant declared: II
should have been a maniac long ago
but for the Sabbath" The nerves, the
brain, the muscle, the bones, the intel
lectual and moral nature cry out for
the Sabbath of 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
o n when they let their horse rest
by the way IN the Sabbath. What is
the matter with those forlorn creatures
hn.nagCA1 20 ,n 80 Nha tHxv an q
Why do they stumble and stagger and
fall? 1t is for the lack of the Sabbatic
rest.
In other days, when the herdsmen
drove their sheep and cattle from the
far west down to the seaboard, It was
found out by experience that those
herdsmen and drivers who halted over
the seventh day got down sooner to
the seaboard than those who passed on
without the observance of the holy
Sabbath. The fishermen off the coast
of Newfoundland 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 1t seemed to be q
straight route, he said: 1--WE have To
let the locomotive stop and cool of OF
the maGhinery 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 damage. The expert
mem was made, some observing the
Sabbath and some not observing the
Sabbath. Those who allowed the fires
to GO down and the kettles to cool once
a week were compelled to spend only q
few pennies in the way of repairs
while in the cases where no Sabbath
was observed, many dollars were de.
manded for repairs.
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 AK and fail and ~yardsticl
has beautifully failed, it is proposed in
our day TO drown the Sabbath by food
ing 1t with secular amusements. They
would bury 1t very decently under tn,
wreath of the target company and t.
the music of all brazen instruments.
There are to-day, in the different
cities, 10000 hands and 10, 600 pens bus,
In attempting to cut out the heart O
our Christian Sabbath, and leave It
bleeding skeleton Of what II once was
The effort Is organized and tremen,
dous, and unless the friends Of Chris
and the lovers of good order shall rous,
up right speedily, their m ant
protests will be uttered after the castl,
Is taken. There are cities In the LAM
where the Sabbath has almost DER
ished, and 1t is becoming a practica
question whether we who received
pure Sabbath from the hands of on
fathers shall have piety and plucl
enough to give our children the sam,
blessed inheritance. The eternal Co
helping us, we will!
Go through the streets where tn
theaters are open on a Sabbath night
go up on the steps; enter the boxes q
those places of entertainment, and tel
me II that Is keeping the Sabbath holy
80" says some ONE, God won't be di,
pleased with a grand sacred concert.
A gentleman who was present at
grand sacred concert one Sabbat
night in one Of the theaters of on
great cities, said that during the exel
cises there were comic and sentiments
songs, interspersed with coarse joke.
and there were dances, and a farce
and tight rope walking, and u trapez
performance. Isuppose it was a hol
dance and a cOnsecrated tight rope
This is what they call IA grand sacre
concert"
We near a great deal of talk abOu
'the rights of the people" to have jus
such amusements on Sunday as the
want to have. ! wonder II the Lor
has any rights. You rule your family
the governor rules the state, the pres
dent rules the whole land; l wonder
: the Lord has n right to rule the nation
and make the enactment: "Remembe
the Sabbath day to keep 1t holy" an
II there is any appeal to IA high coul
from hat decision, and If the men VIII
are warning against that enactmer
9 are not guilty of high treason again,
the maker of Heaven and earth.
The prophet asks n question which
!. can easily answer: ''VYill a man ro
God?" Yes. They robbed him la:
Q Sunday night at the theaters and opel
houses, and l charge upon them the II
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