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VOLOMt THREE
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A SURPRISE.
I HAD EXPECTED THAT THIS WEEK’S ISSUE WOULD BE THE LAST PRINTED IN ATLANTA AND THAT NEXT WEEK’S PAPER
WOULD GO TO OUR READERS FROM TEXAS SOIL; BUT A TELEGRAM ANNOUNCES A COMPLICATION AND CALLS ME BACK TO FT.
WORTH TO ARRANGE THE MATTER IN PERSON. A PART OF THE ATLANTA FORCE, EXPECTING THE MOVE TO OCCUR EARLIER
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LETTERS. THEY MAKE ME FEEL THAT LIFE IS WORTH LIVING. WILLIAM D. UPSHAW, Editor.
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work. But
the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God.’’—Ex. 20: 8-11.
N the first commandment we see that
God commanded worship of him only.
In the second, that we worship him di
rectly. In the third, that we worship
him devoutly. Now we come to the.
fourth commandment, which sets apart
one-seventh of our time to be observed
in worship. Os course, we do not under
stand by this that we are only, to wor-
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ship him on the Sabbath day, but that one da\ in
seven the world is to halt and pay homage to God.
In pondering’ the fourth commandment, we ob
serve three duties:
WORK. REST, WORSHIP.
Most of us fail to remember that we violate the
fourth commandment by refusing to work six days
out of seven as much as when Ve work on the sev
enth. ‘‘Six days shall thou labor.” God intended
men and women to work. I know some of yon don't
like that, but you have no more right to lie up in tin*
house and sleep away the six days than has a man
the right to sit around street comers whittling sticks,
wearing out his pantaloons, waiting for something
to turn up. Work is honorable; work is a necessi
ty. No sooner had God made Eden than he put
man, whom he had just formed, into it, to till it and
keep it. Eden was the birth spot of labor. The
The Sabbath and Holv It is Desecrated.
Tabernacle Sermon by Reb. Len G. Broughton, D. D.
Steiiographically reported for The Golden Age. —Copyright applied for
ATLANTA, GA., OCTOBER 1, 1908.
soil needed his work. Nature is only generous as a
rule to those who industriously seek out her re
sources. When 1 was in Hot Springs. Ark., I was
shown the most beautiful rose 1 ever saw. The
gardener told me that it was cultivated from an or
dinary mountain rose, which possesses neither fra
grance nor beauty. Thus we see the unfolding of
this world to the touch of an industrious hand.
Work is necessary for man's own good. Great
reservoirs of force lie within. Industry is the chan
nel through which it is to pass. He who fails to*use
his facilities is as though he were dead. One of the
mightiest problems we have to contend with today is
that of indolence. It is great alike to the philan
thropist and the statesman.
[ remember a man who came before the relief com
mittee one winter when there was so much suffering
from the cold; we asked him if he would work. He
replied, he would only be* too glad to get it to do.
Finally we arranged work for him; whereupon, he
declared to us emphatically he did not want to work.
This is only one ease out of a thousand that I might
mention. In our city missionary and benevolent
work connected with the Tabernacle, our missiona
ries have of necessity been forced into the work
of detectives. And we regard the care taken along
this line as being in keeping with the Word of God:
“If any man will not work, neither let him eat.”
How many spongers in the word today! One thing
I have often said, if a wife, I would not mend sox
for any husband to wear out hunting for his price;
neither would I patch pants for him to wear out sit-
ting on street corners whittling sticks waiting for
something to turn up or down that would give him
a. job. As a wife, if something did not turn up, 1
would turn something down. Remember the com
mandment, “Six days shalt thou labor.”
THE DUTY OF REST.
“The seventh day is a Sabbath unto Jehovah, thy
God. in it thou shalt not do any work.” The word
“Sabbath” means rest. No one can fail to be struck
will) the frequency of the number seven in the Bi
bb*. Seven days was Noah allowed to stock the
ark. Seven years did Jacob serve for Leah; and
seven years for Rachel. Seven well-favored kine,
and seven ill-favored. Seven full ears of corn, ami
seven blasted. Seven years of plenty, and seven
years of famine. Seven altars of Balak, seven bul
locks, seven rams. Seven day’s lengths of the feasts
of Passover and Tabernacles. Seven days were the
priests to be in the course of consecration. Seven
tilings were to be offered in sacrifice. Seven times
was Jericho surrounded. Seven times Namaan was
to dip himself in Jordan. Seven deacons were ap
pointed by the infant church. Seven churches in
Asia. The seven spirits. The seven candlesticks.
The seven seals. The seven horns. The seven eyes.
The seven angels. The seven trumpets. The seven
plagues. 'The seven vials. The seven visions. The
seven-fold doxology to God and man. Those are on
ly some of the prominent connections of the numeral
seven. Now, the fourth commandment deals with
the seventh day, the day of rest.
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