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to belong to six days only: that nations
where these six days have intruded upon
the rest and worship of the first day
have always been in the background of
advance and righteousness and peace
that once to open the door is to find 1t
swinging back never to close again I'M
der any circumstances.
Gods law in the Old Testament is as
clear as can be; he may run who reads
1t and yet read plainly. From Exodus
to Malachi history and prophecy tell only
one consistent story which has as its
Interpretation the fourth commandment.
The Lords day Is the Christian Sabbath
and the same law applies to it in spirit
and the same warnings and the same
awful lessons. And the mere tyro in
history knows that nations that have en-
dured and done the worlds work-even
those which were righteous and kept the
whole law of the Almighty.
There can be no halfway measure. We
are either Christian or anti-Christian; and
our ways and works must conform either
to the Christian rule-which is clearly
marked through the centuries-or to the
rule of the world which does not know
that Christ is King. Sunday is the Lord S
day. We are not to do any work save
that which is necessary for our existence.
on Sunday Nor are We to pursue our
usual avocations, nor are we to pursue
our usual pleasures.
Stores and factories and concert halls
and places of innocent amusement are to
be closed. Churches are to call the peo-
pie together for worship, to acknowledge
the Supreme Ruler, whose laws are to
guide US into ways of peace. and to learn
of the Christ who came to earth to show
us how to live and to give us strength
| and hope. Home Is to be made most at
tractive on this day, but not as on
other days. 1t Is the day of quiet and
peace The worlds beauty in air and
sky and wood and field Is not to be
avoided, but 1t is to call us nearer to
| Him who proclaims His love for His
children. In short, Sunday is to be diff
| apart; a day consecrated not to our
selves or our work our pleasure or our
| selfish interest, but to God. 1t is the
| Lords day.
BY no means are We to think it or to
| make 1t day Of gloom. Gods earth Is
beautiful. where man has not made it vile
I by his creation Of shadows of sin. God
wants us to be happy. II we are gloomy
when He speaks it proves either a guilty
conscience or a gross and unpardona BILE
not freedom 1t is slavery to self-the
| most cruel of taskmasters. Fun is not the
| violation of natural and spiritual law.
Plea sure Is not going on our own way as
If there Were no God and no divinely ex-
| pressed will for our guidance. Many
yes, thousands in Christian lands-can re-
| call the Sundays of their childhood years
! as the brightest memories Of their lives.
ABOUT the day cluster truths and faces
and voices and hymns and smiles which
| create q harmony Of delight and give an
| inspiration to present struggle. The men
| in our American history who have led the
way In all social progress have been
GOd-fearing men who never forget their
early training and never gave allowance
| to any departure from their early ideals.
To compare the lives Of these men with
| the lives of the men and women Of ma
| lions where religion was thing Of form
/ only, or where there was no restraint in
| morals or knowledge Of mercy or truth.
| IL simply to declare what pure Christian
| ity has done for the world wherever 1t
| has been sincerely preached and honestly
practiced. Where are there happier
| homes than in countries where church
| worship Is real and the observance of
| Sunday honest in accord with Gods
word? Where are there dearer chill
! dren and sweeter and happier, than
| In those homes where Christ Is known as
| Friend, and where the worship Of God is
as natural as the breathing OF the air
| And where are hearts truer and purer
| than in such homes. with which the
church and the minister are always as
| ISOLATED as a necessary feature and in
| which the glad hymns OF the ages, min
gled with moderp hymns Of praise, rise