The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-08-24
THAT SUNDAY SPORT
BY ROBERT J. BURDETTE.

BY ROBERT j.. BURDETTE.
And so, my boy. you were too
tired, after q week Of hard work,
to go to the church Sunday morn
ing, so mounted your wheel and
went on a Century rum for q
rest? And got home at Z p. m. so
dead tired that you couldn't 60 to
church in the evening? And de-
Tending your way Of spending the
day you quote the words of your
Saviour, 1.-The Sabbath was made
for man.
So it was, my son; so it was.
So was the buzz saw. And not two
years ago l saw a man with every
one of his fingers and a part of his
thumb gone from his right hand,
Just because he made wrong use OF
a good buzz saw. The saw was in
it's place, doing its work nicely for
the man, to which end it was made.
It was fulfilling it's destiny. 1t was
doing the thing to which it was ap-
pointed. 1t didn't move out Of it's
place a hairs breadth to do the
man harm. 1t just kept on saving
wood, and the man couldn't-or,
rather, didn't-Wait till the buzz
saw was through with the work.
He transgressed it-(transgressues:
trans, across; gradi step; to step
across)-he reached over it when
he should have gone around It.
And when he drew back his hand,
which he did Immediately, he
didn't have the thing he reached
for and he didn't have the
fingers he reached with. He had
not only gained something but he
had lost something. And. more
than that, he had lost something
that he will never regain in this
world.
All, my boy, | don't want to shut
you up in a dingy boarding house,
a hot room, the dusty city, and the
smelly, dirty city all the time.
But when you go out into Gods
country for Gods fresh air, and
rest of body, and peace Of mind,
don't run over Gods Sunday to get
these things. He has them for
I you; no one else al give them to
you. But you don't want to tram
: pie on some Of his greatest bless
, ings to get the lighter ones.
; have no more objection to your
riding to church than you have to
, my walking on Sunday. If Rev.
Malachi Ezaman, A. M, D. D.. L.
L. D., drives to church in his car
rage, or uses the street cars, there
is no reason why you shouldn't
spin decorously to the church on
, your wheel. There is no reason
why you shouldn't, anyhow, no
matter what the doctor does. If
he wants to walk to church, le;
him If could ride as we'll as
you do, | should not walk unless ]
preferred it, which l certainly do.
: But you don't ride to church,
: You passed the doors of three OF
. four nice country churches on your
spin and never sc much as paused
e at one of them. You didn't &C
out for the fresh air and rest anc
peace of mind. You went out be.
cause you were too lazy to go t.
church, or too selfish, or too M, an,
or just because you didn't want to,
The meanest thing in the whole bu'
9 siness is, that, after running away
from church. after denying Goo
the reverence and love and worship
on His own day which is His due
: after riding over the Bible. 20,
I try to sneak a passage out Of it t.
justify your treachery.
II All, my boy. not half . dozer
verses away from the one 20,
: quoted you will find what use tn
+ Lord Of the Sabbath made Of It fol
man. Do you see the day for maj
as He did. and you may write tina
text across your heart and have i
graven on the handle bars Of YOU
!. wheel and ride q thousand mile,
every Sunday II you can. and Coz
and man will bless you for It
:. But don't 60 racing and chasing
over the whole country side 81
Sunday. having . jolly good tim'
Ill by yourself, and all for your
self. and then come back quoting
s Scripture to prove that you were Of
. missionary tour all the time.
There was . fellow long befor'
your day, in the fourth chapter o
Matthew. who had Scripture righ1
ct his tongues end. and who quotes
from the ninetyfirst Psalm far NOR
. glibly than you can, and yet b
.;didn't prove his point, and he knsy
u all thu time that hia ann1iMfi0n a