The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-10-11

i view point Of Divine revelation. AS nation we
are far from using this day the great Goo
given institution that it is. With vast throngs
the Sabbath day is in its true sense lost day
To them it is no longer a holy day. It has be-
come day Of pleasure seeking, day Of sport
and hunting.
To the extent to which it is so used this
Great Republic is endangered. What cry comes
| to us for Rally along this line.
The founders Of this nation realized the need
of Sunday rest in it's fullest and best sense. Lin
coin stood out strongly for this. Daniel Webster
said that ''as we go back in history the life Civ
ing waters of genius and civilization have never
sprung up save in the track of the ministry, and
as the result of Christianity. When man ceases
to kneel and pray he ceases to bow the intel
lect before God; and if he ceases to worship
God in the Church he will soon cease to worship
Him under the open sky, in the park, or beside
the stream.
Every man who helps to break it down is an
enemy Of the Republic. If in the judgment of
our greatest thinkers the Sabbath as an holy
day is essential to the higher manhood of the
nation what about the men and women who are
converting the Sunday into terms of pleasure
The call for rallying to the sacredness of the
Sabbath Day is truly loud in the interests of the
future of the Republic.
How terribly the lax conditions of today are
telling on the work of the church; the Sabbath
School; the Public School, the life of the Family,
and because of this laxity the whole life Of the
republic is endangered.
This is Rally Day for our Sunday School,
that is why l following this line of thought
this morning. You and 1 want to see this Re-
public grow God wants it to grow To be
consistent then must cooperate with God
and do part in the reinstatement of the Lords
Day as Holy Day God gave it to and
designed it to be kept because man needed it for
that very purpose. If will do this, then rest
assured that the smile of heaven will rest upon
us in all departments of national life
We must reinstate the Family alter for the
sake of the family. Fathers and Mothers must
be and women Of prayer. In matters of
worship and Sunday School their motto, in so far
as they must be "Come" and not "Go'. Such
rally will call for the best that is in each Of
We must give to the church the time, means and
care necessary to make her, in Gods hands the
power for good God designes her to be-
This cannot be done by few in each church,
even with the aid and blessing of heaven. We
must have the help of every life within the COM
munity of the church. We begin with the
Sabbath School work We gather up our
absent pupils; we can gather in these not in any
other Sunday School. There is great work here
for our church to do, one that can only be done
as it should be done by the whole hearted cooper
alton of all the church. Why we failing
Many reasons could be given, perhaps l should
rather say excuses. Some things we can do if
we will Every member and adherent of the
church could either be member of the Sunday
School member of the "Home Department"
Some say that they have no time to follow the
lessons in the Home Department., and yet their
own spiritual need of Bible food calls for just
such a systematic reading, few minutes daily
to brighten and Tighten the burdens of life; then
the very same people can as rule find time for
the reading of other things that interest them,
and time for pleasure seeking the Lords Day. |
Others say that they cannot stay for the
Sunday School because it makes them too late |
for dinner, or that the two services too long.
In answer to this we would suggest changing the
hours of Worship and Sunday School to suit the |
meal hours, and to the two being too long, !
that is more than a paltry excuse in the ma
jority of cases, the same people sit through
a social function, political gathering, bust |
ness meeting, or Lodge gathering for hours and
hours and offer no complaint that will keep them
from going again and doing the same thing
The Importance of those things that pertain
to the kingdom of God the true values of life and
the eternal facts of right and wrong are surely
equal, not to say, greater than any temporal
affairs
Fathers and mothers are you doing what
you to keep your children in the Sabbath
School? Children of our Sunday School are you
doing what you can to bring in others not going
to any Sunday School.
Our plea this morning is for our own church |
and Sunday School first, but our plea has in it
he highest welfare of this Great Republic, and
the highest welfare of the world, but away be-
yond all these it seeks the greater glory of God.
Editors Note: The above, sermon which was
preached by DR.. Ross, Sunday, September "a, is
published at the earnest request of several men,
oers of the Presbyterian Church of which DIR.
Ross is pastor. |,
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