The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-05-01

and happier, noble and holy and his
best possible self. 1t was then shown
that physically, mentally and morally,
and spiritually, man needed to keep
one-seventh of the time for rest and
worship. That man would fail without
he observed this rule. France annulled
the Sabbath. She was forced to give
one day in ten and then come to Gods
rule to save her physical, mental and
national life. 1t was shown that the
Sabbath keeping nations were In the
advance in all the noble departments of
life and the Sabbath keeping nations
had come into the possession practical
ly of the earth and it's peoples. The
non n-Sabbath-keeping cannot cope with
the Sabbath-keeping peoples. Then 1t
was shown that the Sabbath was an in
titution sacred and of perpetual obliga-
ton. The law as given on Sinai by Jo-
hovah forever settled the day as a holy
one and not holiday. The law there
given was satisfied in Christ as a
means of salvation, but as a rule Of
conduct in life It is forever binding upon
man till the end of time. A holy day
does not mean picnics, excursions, the
latricals, races, games, visiting, gossip,
Sabbath newspapers or railroad train
excursions, and other such amusements.
But a day of rest and worship, a day
when the wheels of industry Will cease
and man may hear the still small voice
that came to Elijah in the quiet of the
night, when he was commissioned for
his last great work. AS to the day to
be kept as Sabbath, the minister said
we could not go back and reckon so
as to be sure we were keeping the sew
enth day. The law was one-seventh Of
the time for rest and worship. There
ought to be uniformity of day. Christ
| rested from the work of redemption on
| the first day of the week and apostolic
example was followed and the needs of
man met in the keeping of the first day
of the week, and we will not stray
while we follow and the men whom he
said his Holy Spirit would come and
lead into truth and the remembrance OF
all that he would have them to know,
Nothing is gained by cavil about the
first day of the week.
| But when man who is fallible under
takes to dictate to God who is infallible
and to annul law which is necessary &c
the continuancy Of the physical, mental
and moral man, evil must follow. But
|
we are desecrating his Sabbath. Well
this may be said. From our beginning
as a nation till the war Of the rebel
lion, probably no people ever KEPT
Gods Sabbath more perfectly for rest
and worship and only in very recent
years have we been openly defying Goo
by publicly profancd Sabbath. GOO
is long suffering and plenteous in mer'
cy." He bore with Israel for centurie:
sometimes, but defeat in battle, and
finally the ruin of the nation came. I
is time enough for us to reap the dis
pleasure of God, If we continue and re
pent not of our sin in this particular
and what of our ever-increasing ner
vous prostration and insanity? Wha
of our corruption in public affairs
| And when our SABBATH is gone for tht
masses, If this must come, and the faitf
of the public in God is shaken, and theil
moral sensibilities blunted, what will
an oath in courts of Justice be worth
Are not Rome and France and Spair
examples of sufficient plainness so tina
we may read? But we are not hopeless
The American people make up thei
minds slowly, but when the public con
science is aroused, and God shall hav'
his Sabbath and we shall enjoy hi
blessings