The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1902-03-07
A SUNDAY SERMON.
Written for the Ocala Daily Banner.l
Man is evidently seven day clock

Well, there is way to prove it, an
that is by reference to history.
History is God teaching by event.
: History is the voice Of the eterna
! speaking in tones audible to men.
History shows Us that those nation
which have not had the seventh.da.
winding have ran out of time au'
have in most instances run down.
France decided 10 run herself by
tens. She argued that the decims
system would suit the souls and bodie.
Of men. If ten represented a man
amongst them, ! shall undertake tc
say the l represented the body, as
they reasoned, and the o represented
the soul; that is to say, the soul was
nothing without the body.
What wonder then that France
went mad? Or, to Use our former fig
ure, what wonder that France failed
to keep time?
Jehovah, the creator, knew best how
to regulate that celestially constructed
piece of mechanism we call man.
This jehovah, 10y and through those
far-famed ten commandments, which
unquestiOnably contain the very base
principles of truth, virtue and jus
tice, gave this command:
"Six days shalt thou labor and do
all thy work" following with a COM
mand to refrain on the seventh day
from toll.
Shall man, the pygmy, the ant, pre-
sumo to put his puny judgment above
that of the creator?
And yet, when man refuses to obey
the command just spoken of that is
precisely what he does. He says, by
his actions, II know better than the
)ne who made me.n
The French people, after their en-
ieavOr to run the nation on the deci-
nal system had plunged them into
gulf of horror and lawlessness; after
hey had dethrOned reason by crown
ng harlot as Goddess of Reason;n
fter they had washed the pavement
calm and were near to washing them
fresh with the blood Of the common
eOple; after these things and worse,
lere were two or three men still liv-
lg who had not gone mad, and these
Nv to it that the decimal system was
and the seven-day system,
'dained of God, was re-established.
In America, it is scarcely probable
at the lawmakers will ever saw:
Ne shall have only one day of rest \
It of ten" Our danger rather lies in -
e disregard, in private life, of that
y hallOwed by custom and made
operative 10y the very law of our be-
3.
No man; with impunity can break
physical law. There is law which
IS we must live in air, and breathe
An insane man might fancy he
I'D live in and breathe water, or
1rOgen. But let him attempt it, the :
ter will drown and the hydrogen 81
hyXiate him. =
mother man, who has smattering :
cience, might say: "Air is COM Z
ed, mainly, of oxygen and nitro q
. | will live on oxygen" He will :
ak law of his being if he does, :
will burn out long before his time. :
le may endeavor 10 breathe the
Ogen; and in that case he will die
lack Of physical fire. NJ
0 man walks over precipice, or Ny
: poison into his system, or Ny
lges his hand into fire without Ny
ring the consequence of breaking \
steal laws.
le fourth commandment is phy- gallo
as well as a psychical law, and it estgo
not be broken with impuuity.
e of christian lands do not hold ---.---
lin one of the seven days as sacred m
We must acknowledge the neces- "a
Tor rest on one of the seven. We =
Dt worship the Sabbath. In fact -.
sunday is not the original Jewish
ath. Jesus Of Judea said we are
Iaves of the Sabbath, but that it