The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-17

despite the severe weather. Tine pastor,
Rev. Wallace Nutting, delivered an adj
dress ON Sunday, how it is spent, and
how to spend it."
The text was:
What Is man, that Thou are mindful of him ?
And the son OF man, that Thou visitest him
For Thou hast MIN bat little lower than III,
angels,
And crownest him with glory AID boaor.
-Psalm 8: q, ..
The address in foil follows:
Sunday Ia Gods compliment to the
dignity of nan. Ii was made for him. 1t
was supposed thst he had the faculties TO
value IL. God dit not cast this pearl,
the rest day, before swine. He had made
men Of such an order Of intelligence, OF
such a dignity, that they needed the day.
il Is one OF humanitY's crowns OF z osy
and honor. He Is the greatest man who
can see most meaning In the works Of
God. The more a Sunday means TO you
The more YOU unders and God.
Few want o ''good time" Sunday is
twenty-four ours OF the hest time there
is in the week. How much do you get
out of Sunday-how much do you put
Into it? The average life is poor enough.
Life needs enriching. What is the diff
erence between twenty-four hours in the
&AA1 ~ tAN1N 80 w. AbaS - - NAHN,
in tue life OF an idler? In twenty-four
pours Jesus Christ was arrested, tried.
crucified, dead and buried. In one day he
fed 1 We thousand men, cured many sick
and preached at length. In one day a
man may travel from New York to
Chicago. In about five hours, according
10 the history, a part of General jack
sons army marched more than 80 miles.
In two or three hours Beecher on an En-
glish platform changed the sentiment OF
England concerning America, and en-
listed a nation In the cause OF freedom
and against slavery.
In a single day the entire New Tesla
ment was telegrapbed from New York to
Chicago, and appeared in print the next
day. In a few seconds a check for twenty
five millions OF dollars was written in
payment for a railroad in New York. By
a few strokes OF the pen men In a posi-
ton TO do 1t have brought about peace
between the most powerful nations OF
the earth.
All in the fash of a moment the might
lest mind IN the early church was chang
ed from q prosecutor to q Christian, and
received the impetus by which he wrote
half OF the New Testament.
How far may one leap in q day? How
many friends can one lose between the
bushes shours of mir in the morning and
four In the afternoon? You can leap
from the highest responsibility to the
lowest shame; from freedom TO thraldom;
from life to death. How much is there
in a dayf A short eternity. A Sunday
contains sufficient time for an uplift SO
great that In the mar of Monday morning
you would not recognize the man Of sat
uroay night. The sunday is the period
in which God calls q halt 10 the swirl OF
the life current. and says to man: ''This
day you may climb from the blacklist,
deepest canon to the sunny plain thou
RQn0s nf feet "A h0Vp
We all know that a Sunday with Abra-
ham, or a sabbatb, as they called IL
then, when the Lord talked with him,
told him OF the future, end gave him
to see the day Of Jesus-we all know that
day held more of a life, of thought, of
the entire three score years and ten of a
tramp, a %loafer, a sport, a glutton, or
. hypocrite. How much was a day to
Moses who
TALKED WITH A MIGHTY SPIRIT
face 10 face and received the law of
heaven for the government Of the world
commandments which this very day
form the basis Of administration here in
Rhode Island How many days would
you give out OF your life for the single
hour durt z which the Losd distoursed
On the Mount of Olives and was re-
ceived Up into heaven?
Long before Tennyson wrote "Better
ffy years of Europe than a cycle Of Ca.
thay,n an ancient feer, peering into the
effulsent future, with a vision OF rapture,
shouted: "a coy in thy courts is better
tn II = ihoCsandl' But in the light Of a
beit r glory ] would be ready to say, 1
would be happier to be caIalle of the
Thoughts, the emotions, the notleness
that WIS In the Christ for one hour than
re exper cncc all the joys Of all the men
whn havp ever liye1 unrightecusly.
] believe IN the caracit.es Of a cav, and
especially OF a cundsy for putting a new
life. o new beatty, a new power into a
human soul. But how does the Young
man Of Providence spend sunday. IT. @
90, 00O males Ia this city who rave arrived
at mans estate-do you estimate that
about fifteen thousand OF them dri1k?
TIL y say q man Is "tLe worse for drinkn
when be is atout half drunk. Bot who
Will agree TO prove that he is not the
worse for 4 little liquor? Are 10. 900 OF
these men IN church, once during tie
day? That wonlo allow an average Of 100
men in each OF 100 churches, large and
small, or an average congregation of 500
persons IN these churches-for two out OF
three have been found to be women. And
THE OTHER THIRTY THOUSAND
who did not aprear at church, Were TO-
OO0 Of them just thinking about rising 10
dress while the bells were ringing for
morning serviceY In another city had
the members counted who during one
hour OF Sunday evening went into the six
most popular saloons and dance halls. and
the six largest churches. IL was a dan |
gerous thing TO do, and ] deem II wisest
not 20 attemnt IL I'm this city, for | fear
II Is a wickedes city, and i have no in
clination 10 prove how wicked il is. The |
human animal when he tries to be an
animal Is a great success. II seems A fool
ish thing TO be debating about the exist
ence OF a personal prince of darkness. be-
cause 1t Is the intensely important fact
that numerous human creatures VITO know
TO read the Sermon on the Mount are liy.
ing In the nineteenth century like ant
mails. and not even domesticated animals
at that.
The Sunday Il given this human organ
Ism that we may win back the poise, the
buoyaDcy, the power Of endurance. the
heavenward impulse which is prorer TO a
normal human soul IL then the day be-
comes a sinking, instead OF a rising, time
II 10 very easy 10 make a curse OF II.
Pearls are Of no benefit TO swine II they
eat them. Time for thought, for rest.
for prayer, for the ~sprouting OF the aes.
thetic, the humane and the devotional
ideas IL a large need in lie, for which