Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-09

Thomas Chalmers. they go down among
the abandoned for the sake OF saving
them. then such explorers shall be Goo
protected and they VIII come out better
than when they went in. But If " 20
on this work Of exploration merely ioF
the purpose of satisfying morbid curl
osity, ] will take twenty per cent. on
your moral character.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake
up in the hotel. You have had longer
sleep than usual. You say; where
am /? A thousand miles from home?
I have no family to take TO church TO-
day. NY pastor will not expect my
presence. I think shall look over my
accounts and study my memorandum
book. Then l will write few business
letters and talk TO that merchant who
came in on the same train with me.
Stop! You cannot afford to do it.
"But." you say, II am worth five hun
dred thousand dollars" You cannot
afford To do it,. You say: Il am worth
a million dollars" You cannot afford to
do it. All you gain by breaking the
Sabbath YOU will lose. You will lose one
of three things: your intellect, your
morals or your property, and you can
not point in the whole earth TO single
exception to this rule. God gives US SIX
days and keeps one for,himself. Now,
II we try 10 get the seventh, he will up
set the work of all the other SIX.
remember going up Mount Wash
ipgton, before the railroad had been
built. to the Tip-Top House, and the
guide would come around to our horses
and stou US when we we're crossing
very steep and dangerous place, and
straighten the saddle. And | have TO
tell yop that this road OF life is so
STEEP AND FULL OF PERIL
we must, at least Que day in seven, stop
and have the harness of life readjusted,
and our souls re-eQiipped. The seven
DAYS Of the week are like seven bust
ness partners, and you 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 TO his greedy
boy, proposing TO keep one for himself.
The greedy boy grabs for the other one
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 consis-
tent on the banks of the st. sLawrence,
or the Alabama, CT the Mississippi, are
not consistent when they get so far of
as the East River. l repeat--though 1t
is putting it on low grouRd-you can
not financially afford TO break the Lords
Day. It's only another way TO tear up
YOUR government securities and putting
down the price of goods and blowing up
your store. l have friends who are all
the time sliciDg off pieces of the Sab
bath. They cut little of the Sabbath
off that end, and little OF the Sabbath
off this end. They do keep the twenty
four hours. The Bible says: "Remem-
Der the Sabbath day, TO keep it holy" l
have good friends who are quite
accustomed 10 leave Albany By the
midnight train on Saturday night, and
getting home before church. Now,
there may DO occasions when II is right,
but generally tits wrong. How If the
train should run off the track into the
North river? hope your friends will
not send to me TO preach your funeral
sermon. 1t would be All awkward thing
for me TO stand up by your side and
preach-you a Christian man, killed on
a rail-train travelling on a Sunday
morning. Remember the Sabbath
day, TO keep it holy" What does that
mean? 1t means twenty-four hours. a
man owes you dollar. You don't want
him to pay you ninety-cents; you want
the dollar. II God demands of US TWEEN
ty-four hours out of the week, he means
twenty-four hours and not nineteen.
Oh, we want to keep vigilantly in this
country
THE AMERICAN SABBATH,
and not have transplanted here the Eu-
ropean Sabbath, which for the most
part is no Sabbath at all. II any of you
have been in Paris, you know that on
Sabbath morning the vast population
rush out toward the country with bas-
kets and bundles, and toward night
they come back tagged out, cross and
intoxicated. May God preserve to us
our glorious, quiet American Sabbath.
A good many years ago, Edward
Stanley, the English commander, with
his regiment, took fort. The fort
was manned by some three hun0reu
Spaniards. Edward Stanley came close
up to the fort, leading his men, when a
Spaniard thrust at him with spear,
intending to destroy his life; but Stan
lev caught hold OF the spear and the
Spaniard in attempting TO jerk the
spear away from Stanley, lifted him up
into the battlementS. No sooner had
Stanley taken his position on the battle
ments than he swung his sword and his
whole regiment leaped after him and
the fort was taken. So it may be with
You, o, stranger. The city influences
which have destroyed so many and
dashed them down forever, shall be the
means of lifting you up into the tower
OF Gods mercy and strength, your soul
more than conQueror through the grace
of him who has promised an especial
benediction to those who shall treat you