Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-09

wants 70 think of, but the eating and
oilllnfis' It's eye is entirely taken up
| Will present gratification it can see no
nsieai'er, OF at least it will not see one
II ioNe 81 pleasure is changing the
| sacreu SABBATH day into a day OF anuse-
ii'ehes- A. demands drinking houses
dancing nails, picnics excursions dinner
parties' pleasure gardens concerts base
pan sahies the opening of museums ex-
po5ltiollS ooHing and wrestling Matches
coch Hshtihg ana bull fighting. IT demands
thal ne christian Sabbath be changed
! INTO Gay OF revelrY, and as a Unnecessary
consequence, g day of deDauchery 1t
ueniahus that The poor laboring man
| nave some place TO so beside the drowsy
ana sleepy church. where he NAV forget
| ms toils ana trobules and poverty The
demand = made, it is said, for the good
OF the laDoring man. But we need but
turn 70 lhe lands where this idea of the
Sappatn prevails to see that it is subyer-
siYe OF az the highest and best interests
or man, as Wen as of society in general
1t ls sometimes said that we get this idea
or the SABBATH from Europe And terri
pie anatnemas are hurled against our Door
foreign brethren for bringing it to Amer
iea. 1t 10 true that foreigners who We're
used TO Such Sabbath in Europe had
much 70 DO with disseminating the idea
here, but it Is equally true that the idea
found very productive soil here in free
America. The fact of the matter Is that
this form Of keeping the Sabbath springs
directly from deep tendency Of the nat
ural heart, viz: the idea that pleasure is
the highest good. 1T can only be over
come by teaching people that present
pleasure is not the highest and noblest
aim of man. That the highest type Of
manhood in this world grtS-.s on the tree
Of self-sacrifice and Christian discipline
1t will not do merely I'd inveigh against
| it as foreign institution. IT is not for
eign to the human heart 1t is SO natural
that many otherwise good men. and even
protesting Christians, are deceived there
by. The antidcte for il is to teach the
people that il they would reach the high
est goal OF manhood here and hereafter
| they must take I'D their cross and follow
Jesus, tine ideal man, the Son OF Man to
the gates of glory.
The third great source from which the
antagonisms 20 The Christian Sabbath
spring II greed, or love Of gain. Greed
cannot bear to see one day out of every
seven lost, i. d., according to it's way of
looking at it. It says, why should this
day be lost to the accumulation Of wealth,
especially so, seeing that il affords the
best chance of all for getting gain for
people have more leisure OH this day than
on All the rest. Hence it opens the drink
ing saloon, and starts the wheels OF the
excursion train, and throws wide open
the doors Of the museum, and sends the
Sunday newspaper on it's journey through
the country, and in q thousand different
ways it phys its pursuit for gain. 1t also
sets up the plea of necessity and sends
| the freight trains laundering along every
mile of rail road TO deliver peTishable
goods. On the same plea. the passenger,
and mail and express trains go fighting
through the land. on the same plea GER
tain classes OF stores and shops fly OPEN
and the result is that to meet all of these
supposed demands il takes an army Of al
least eco. eco laborers. Now. with a very
few executions, all of these supposed
necessary works are not necessary at ALL
And the plea is as false as the devil its
| author The foundation Of all the labor
and traffic on the Sabbath day is the love
of money, its greed.
1T is not necessary for men to have
their drinks on the Sabbath day at the
expense of the open saloon. Many of the
healthiest men and women do without
not onlv one day. but every day 1t is not
necessary for man to have his Sunday
paper or mail. They have neither in
London, and our country stood a long
while without either. Nor can the plea
of necessity be set up for the passenger
train, the freight train, the excursion
train, the store. the shop, or any of their
class. The great bulk of Sabbath break
ing springs from these three powerful.
but wicked, tendencies of the natural
heart. viz: Cnbelief. pleasure greed
And the only way to overcome them is
to show to the world that Belief is better
than Unbelief: that the very highest
pleasure is found in the line of God $
commandments, and that the greatest
gain is to be found in the keeping of the
laws of God.
There is, however, another source of
very great danger to the Christian Sab
bath, and that arises from the thought
lessneSs and carelessness Of so called
Christian people great mass of profess
sional Christians is thoughtlessly run
ming along with this Sabbath desecrating
multitude to do evil. They take in the
Sunday mail newspapers. excursions,
base ball. concerts. stores. picnics, dinner
parties, and perhaps drinks. too. in fact,
I do not feel at all sure that protesting
Christians are not to blame for the most
of the harm done to the Christian Sab
bath. II they were to resolutely set their
faces against all kinds of Sabbath desc
Grafton. they could make it cuaproitable
and consequently undesirable. The re-
form in this matter must evidently begin
at the house of God. When churches run
excursions for camp meetings and Sun
day School picnics. etc, and charge adj
mittance to the gates on the Sabbath
they are driving the nails for the collins
of the Christian Sabbath. Christian peo-
pie should withhold patronage from Sab
bath desecrating institutions of every
kind. If they do this they can settle this
Sabbath question and settle it right.
LET us then. pray Cod for great re-
vival In the church in regard to this sa.
cred day"
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