Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-06
THE LESSON FOR SUNDAY
Some Teachings Of the Bible About
Rest and Recreation.
GOD DEMANDS SABBATH OBSERVANCE

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Scripture Teaches That There Are
Both Riskt|s and Wrong Kinds of Rec.
reation-Rest Is as Essential to Sue
cess as iIstE + Labor and Teil-Good
!. Book ;Layss Down Rules and Re9u-
lations for Us.
(BY. the. Teacher).
My Friends:
Our lesson for Sunday deals with
rest and recreation and observance OF
the Sabbath day. You know. l don't
think that there is any doubt but what
a certain amount Of rest and recreation
is Just as necessity as a certain amount
of work. Youfhaye heard the old
Saying that all work and no play makes
Jack dull boy 1t is quite true. You
have seen men and women who have
been accustomed to doil and labor day
in and day out through the years VINO
are bent and gnarled and possessed OF
tenpers not sweet by whole lot and
who. IN spite. of their strenuous laoofs'
find i, hard to keep body and soul to-
eether. On the other hand you know
lots Of mon, and women who, while they
spend eight Or ten or twelve hours a
day at work, at the same time ma
much time for rest and recreation
They are smiling. Of. face and in the
best OF health3 and spirits. They are
lust examples Of; the fact: that little
rest and recreation Is necessary.
..l The, e,ScriptuSe Lesson.
Suppose we read the Scripture lesson
covering. thsfsubject, as 1t is. found IN
Leviticus 2s:s9-43; Deuteronomy 5:l2-
Is: Mark 6: 81, 80: }S -.
ley. 3:3e. Howbsit gin the ,G':aea'h day 81
,bo sc+.nt n; month, when sc tlaye SnlhGrro III
tno fr,,its of 4ho land, ,Se shall keep the feast
.of Jehovah seven days :,op. the first day snail
I've n solemn rest, and dnthe eighth day Shan
be a solemn rest. -. :: =.
AZ. And ye shall take you on the nrsI uas
the fruit of goodlyt trees. branches Of pam
trees, and boughs of thick trees, ana WILLOWS
NJ the brook; and ye, shall rejoice cetore 'e-
hoyah your God seven days.
Al And We shall keep it a feast unto de-
hoyeb seven days in the year: 1t IS s'a.u.e
forever throughout your generations; ye s"""
keep it in the seventh month. ~
10 Yc shall dwell in booths seven days al
that nre home-born in Israel shall d"ei' III
booths = =. ,ho.
IA That yo,lr generations may know tha'
made the children of Israel to dweli III
bootbs. when i brought them. out OF inc 'a"u
of Euypt am Jehovah your COD.
Dent. 5:12. Observe the Sabbath day. 70
Lccn II holy, as Jehovah thy Goo con'inahueu
thee. ,.h,r ond do all
thy work; s,,ha,h unto
jehovah thy God : In it thou shalt not 10 any
,yorl thou. nor thy sbn. :. nor thy .dausn'eF'
nor tbv manservant, nor. thy maid servant, nor
th;ro, ox nor thine Ass, snor any Of tiny eattFe.
,,or tbv stranger that is 9xithin thy gates 'hat
.hy man.servant and thy ma'd-serVant "'u'
rest as,well :as.tho.s. 49, 80 ,,o,,
* And thou shalt remember lhaI ~
,ras, \ servant in the land OF Esyp'' anu ".
boyab ,hy God brought Thee out 'hehee Wy
,ri,,hty hand and by an outstretchea arm
tbercfore Jchovah;thy God commanded '''ee "
keen m the Sabbath. ahy c..,o
M.rk 6 al. And he said unto theln' oonis
40 yourselves apart into desert piace' a'I
yest awhile. For:there: were many coHiith ".u
going, and they had no leisure 80 muen ID "
eat. :; HAT to
desert place apart.
Recreation: Wrong and Right.
Now. my friends, there is the righ'
kind Of recreation and the wrong K.ho;
If during vacation time or rest tine
YOU engage in pursuits and practlces
.h.+ are calculated to injure your
health. if YOU engage in what sollie
term pleasures that will surely ~
you injury, mentally, morally and phys
;ca,,v it is better that you stickV 10
49,. ~ aau,, labor and toll whatever it,
might be. a.,.
n observing the Sabbath as a oaS
a.. rest if is against Gods law to ouilo'
.,..,, Az, offices w,Aving. reap'hg;
,n.,..,,;.r wiunowingi @,inding. etc
.rlat VAS the iaw, ''r .n'' Jews ~
lown j., IL" f:,",; of -s;i'ir''S' - van
,.,;.h r.,.: -; ,,;li. ;rs% !"i, Sun"i'H !"
..,. xhsaf,I, w,.ri for III. :":hH''h
.,,.. .;,v If r.St iucudtI hil''''- '""'''''
i.,i.r.iius ,luliEii !'aHi'i% urea" J.. '"''''''7'
,.,,.,i,,~ ..,.. Gn lh"."'A days the h'@'
,;:,v ni solemn rrst Was t. N" par" '"''';
,.,,i r,iud -. ,unitN t!'r festival, l'r' 'sc'-
,,rI ~, vas "rrsi rom tie les WIZ
49,, ...,,,.. ~, ,ne spiritual ir''IlS "'
the work.
I, is ND to Us 10 obsrlr" th"s'' '' ~
inst as much today. asst was tof .i'
nsou,c who lived in the day in when
tbav we're written. And yet, how mucn
sabbath non observance do we see To-
dav, There is more non-obserVahce !"
the larger cities than there IS IN t"e
sn,,ler cities and rural communities
The larger the city the more %lckeu-
nacs and non-observance Of Gods day'
Sabbath Observance.
incidentally and in this connectlol''
reca,, conversation that had with d
man some time ago-H man on til'
shady side of life who is Il great I'''''N
er Said he: Had it ever occurred u
vou that it is the people OF the oou'l'
and their observance Of the Sanpal"
that keeps God from destroying tn''
countrv? # you visit the larger c1''eS
on Sunday you can't help being sh"ck-
ed ut the utter disregard of the peop'e