The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-30
SABBATH THOUGHTS
BY Mrs. Rebeeca r. Lee.
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When the morning stars sang to-
gcther for joy. then was the first
Sabbath. The leaves sang together.
the hills clappcd their hands. the
| birds sang. the chorsters OF heaven
| Joined with the first man and first
woman singing: Praise yo the Lord.
! praise His holy ,ame. Let every
thing that has breath praise the
| Lord"
There was rest-swect rest. The
heavens and the earth had ceased
cO-mingling their elements, their work
was done; they had finished: and the
peace of God that passed all UNDER
standing had pcrvaded all nature
from the bud that awaited opening
| until tomorrow into the heart of the
man and woman In Eden where only
God WAS tho guest of the day. And
this peace il the heart and cessation
Of the world from turmoil while God
| looked upon q and called it very
good" typific1 the rest that remaincth
, Tor the people of God-where their
record of works do follow them.
For he that is entered into his
rest. he also hath ceased from his
own works az God did from his. Let
MS labor therefore to enter into that
rest"
And through the turmoil of acute
labor. intense thought; the where
withal shall be eat and whercwithai
shall we he clothed, where the spirit
of peace can not touch upon the ark
over the troubled waters. and all that
is fair and lovely seems on a short
that is passed or shore. that is to
come-at last after this comCth the
seventh day of the week. then:
Saith tho Lord God: tho gates of
the inner court that lOOketh toward
the east shall be shut the six working
days. but on the Sabbath day it shall
be opened"
Then through the skies In the east
cometh the dawn of the day of rest
like the Son of righteousness that
enters into the court of the heart
with healing for the wounds and
h.uiscs of broken spirit and balm
for the labors of the sig working
days.
There arc brilliant stars so high in
the heavens that for long, long years
they were not known to he there;
they were found In the depth OF i'm
| merlcity: SO. in the abstruse places of
God in human nature there are many
own spheres of understanding behold
tho face of their Father in their own
way, were these men and women to
drop from their higher altitude TO the
churches upon earth among the heart
brotherhood whose simple support i'm
religion Is that they believe in God
the Father Almighty. and in Jesus
Christ and in the Holy Spirit: ming
| ling with these believers in their
churches. the stronger. Intellectually,
could by their presence support the
emotions OF more trembling souls and
lend stability against the worldly er-
ror that churches are for women and
children. Indeed were their own
offering simply reason" God would
need them there. and convince them
how mans nature--be II at supreme
perfection was when compared with
Gods as sins of scarlet made white
az snow, of crimson. made as wool.
The great and the small. the large
aud the narrow, have places in Gods
House on the Sabbath day as the
stars of different magnitudes have
places in the heavens all days. all
times in eternity. The Sabbath Is
mans sanctuary where God will
come and dwell with him and sneak
W Ot tHt- tIlyStGIltS III du GIlutthS
day; and in the temples of worship
upon earth where Jehovah calls his
people. by the twos and threes to-
gether or by the hosts who throng in
tho power of a great leader. God is
in the midst of them and will teach
them how to be happier on the way
home, and how to live the six days of
coming labor as though the sun of
the Sabbath lid not yet gone down
and that each iays was but as an hour
toward the setting. Then again a
new morning would arrive and new
Sabbath and mans life with God
would be redoubled holiness and re-
doubled rest. the spiritual rest that
| Is born In consecrated Sabbath and
remains with man as his peace with
the infinite and his comfort to mortal
consciousness.
So shall the Sabbath be the contin-
uations OF life between God and man
until called up higher where Christ
is the light of their temple In heaven
For those whose memory sadly
grarps little hani now vanished, OF
a trembling one that followed as to-
Igether they would walk into the
house OF God on Sundays the follow
ing extracts from n beautiful poem
will be comforting:
Some Time.