Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-30
Sunday Morning Talk
Remember tho Sabbath Day.

Remember the Sabbath day. to keep if holy. Exodus 23:s There has been an awful letting down in this county re- garding the Sabbath during the last twenty years and many a man has been shorn of his spiritual power, lK1e Sampson, because he Is not straight on this question. You may be a pfofessed Christian. Are yod ebeying this com mandment? I believe this commandment Is just as binding today as it ever was. Men have said 1t has been abro- gated, but they have never been able to point, to any place in the Bibie where God repealed it. I believe that the Sabbath question today Is q vital one for the whole country. Tt~is the burning question of the present time If you give up the Sabbath the church goes; il you give up church the home goes and if you give up the home the nation goes. This is the direction in which we are travelling. The church of God is losing it's power on account of so many peo- pie giving up the Sabbath.
 ''Sabbath"-meahing rest, God rested
 after creation, and ordained the Sab bath as 8 rest for man. He blessed and
 hallowed it, "Remember the rest-day to
 keep it holy" It is the day when the
 body may be refreshed and strengthened
 after six days of labor and the soul drawn into closer fellowship with its Maker.
 The good eHect on . nasicn's health and happiness produced by the return of the Sabbath, with It's cessation from work, cannot be overestimated. It is needed to repair and restore the body after six days of work It is proved that a man can 10 more in six days
 than in seven. Lord Beacohsfield said : "Of all divine institutions, the most oI- vine is that which secures 2 day of | rest for man. I hold 1t 10 be the :rlaet vaJlable Messing o41neSsted an mar.
 It is the corner stone of all civilizat lion and it's removal would affect the health | of the people" Mir. Gladstone toll a friend that the secret of his long life l was that amid all thre 9rassure 0f pub. 1 lie cares he never forgot the Sabbath
 with it's rest for the body and the soul | Apart from public and family observ. 1 ance, the individual ought to devote a l portion of the time to his own edif- 1 cation. Prayer, meditation, reading, l ought not to be forgotten. Think oi l men devoting six days a week to thei1 body, which will soon pass away, an6
 begrudging one day to the soul. whicf will live on forever! Is 1t too much fol God to ask for one day to be devoted 6 V ] ual senses when the other senses ari
 busy all the week. Make your Sabbatl down here a foretaste of the eterna | Sabbath that is, in store for believers
 No nation has ever prospered that ha
 trampled the Sabbath in the dust. Show
 me nation that has done this, and
 will show you nation that has got Ii it Ule seeds of ruin and decay I beiiev
 that Sabbath descration will carry na
 tfon down quicker thSh anything
 else.
 When the children of Israel went int
 the Promised Land God told them to le
 their land rest every seven years, an He would give them as much in si years as in seven. For four hundre and ninety years they disregarded tha 1 law. But mark you Nebuchadnezza ] came and took them of into Babylon
 and kept them seventy years In captiv ity,, and the land had it's seventy Sal baths of rest So they did not gal : much by breaking this law. You ca give God His day Or He will take t. | On the other hand, lonorihg the fourt commandment brings blessing. If tho , turn away thy foot from the Sabbatl from doing thy pleasure on My hel : day and cali the Sabbath delight, u holy of the Lord, honorable and sha honor Him, not doing thine own way 2 | nor finding thin own pleasure. nc ! speaking thine own words (thine own : f contrasted with what God enj6ins). the shalt theu delight myself in the Lord , 1 and will cause thee to ride upon q z high places of the earth and feel thel n with the heritAge of Jacob thy fatAe o for the mouth of the Lord hath spol i en M.
 si We hxxe a fighting chance to save th e nation, and what we want Is men af . women who will make up their minds
 do whgs Is right and stand by I. If tl
 | heavens fall on their heads.
 What is to become of the church a the Chsistian Sabbath is given up 2 recreation and made q hoiidAyf Has ,. the time come to call . hah if men Wa e power with God? Let men cafl you ns n ] row and bogoted, but De man efou
 1 to stand by Gods law and you will ha le power and blessir< That Is the kind 'e Christianity we want jdst now in tl ot country. Any man ,esh 60 with { n crowd, but we want men who win le against the current
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