The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-04-22

uted then I said, world pour my
Jury upon them in the wilderness to
consume them. TneF heart went
lfter their idols. .
lisa. Sc; 13, IA. II thou turn away
thy foot from the Sabbath, from do
Ing thy pleasure on my holy day; and
call the Sabbath delight, the holy Of
the Lord honorable; and shall honor
Him, not doing thine own ways, nor
finding thine own pleasure, nor speak
Ing thine own words: then shalt thou
delight thyself in the Lord; and
will cause thee b, ride upon the high
places Of the esrth, and feed with the
heritage lof Jacob thy father. ht
Jer. 1927. But II ye will not
hearken unto me to hallow the Sab
bath day, and not. to bear a burden,
even entering in at the gates Of Jer-
usalem on the Sabbath day; then
will I kindle a fire in the gates there
of, and 1t shall devour the palaces
of Jerusalem, and II shall not be
quenched
Matt. 1913. The Son of man is
lord even of the Sabbath day.
Matt. 5;17. The Lord says. Think
not that came to destroy the law or
the prophets; I came not to destroy,
but to fulfill.
The above Bible passages were ex-
pounded and elucidated by the pastor
of the Reformed Church, w. A. Sett-
lage.
In conclusion, he said, that in this
day and age, in spite of the much
preaching and the large mass of lit
Ieratura, which Is circulated, the car
dinal principles OF our Holy Religion
are not sufficiently inculcuated and en-
Joined on the hearts and minds Of
the people and especially upon the
young. A Christian state and city
is responsible for the keeping of the
Sabbath day. 1t must be In order to
guard the nation against ruin.
1T must not be forgotten that the
nation, state and city is composed of
families, yea individuals. No river
flows higher than It's fountainhead /.
REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY,
TO KEEP II HOLY! GOD MADE 1T,
MAN MUST NOT UNDO 1T.
Sunday evening Rev. C.. f..
Itowley, pastor of Wesley NJ. e.
church, took as his text the fourth
CONF iandment, Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy
found IN the Goth chapter of Exc.
ldus.
Sabbath desecration in two forms
of business activities and amuse.
ments, was spoken of by Rev.
Mr.. ROwley. He said that Sunday
baseball violates the law Of Goo
and of the State Of Ohio.
He read from the statutes those
clauses which prohibit Sunday
games.
| The quarterly communion servic,
of the German NJ. T.. congrega
tion was held following the usua
Sunday morning Sermon. Th'
speaker ut both tho morning T. ant
evening service was. Rev. Ernes
Werner, OF Spencerv:lle. In th'
morning he spoke on the subject
"The Death Of Christ" and in th'
evening his subject was ''Time. 7"
The topic of Sabbath desecra
tion was taken up Sunday evenin.
by Rev. IL. c. Reed, pastor o
the United Brethren church. Hi
text was taken from the 18th chap
ter of Nehemiah verses IL to "a
The United Brethren pastor, how
lever, DID not mention Sunday base
ball in particular.
Gone form of Sabbath desecrs
tion is just as bad as another" h
states, 'and for that reason | too
up the subject in a general way
Rev. MIR. Reed showed that TIL
lgreat sin of the Israelaes resultin
in their being placed :n Babylonia
captiv:ny, was Sabbath desecratOn
In observance of the first Sun
day spent in their new quarters Q
Davids street, the members of ii
Wesley mission held a dedicatio
. service Sunday afternoon. A lars
congregation was present, fillir
: the new mission aoom, and an e
; lcellent dedicatory sermon WI
preached by Evangelist o. "
! Webb. His text was "Fmthe
!, more, ! tell thee that the Lo
, will build thee an house," foul
! in first Chronicles, I7-10.
In beginning his discourse, Re-
MIR. Webb spoke words of prai
for the Wesley Mission and
: aims. lie predicted that the i
9 stitution will increase with &
/ growth of the city. He also spo
4 in regard to the Door of Ho
n rescue home, which it is piopos
Q to establish in connection with t
y mission. A rising vote of tho
Q present was taken and practiea
: every person expressed himself
g being in favor of. the piopos
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