To see largecrowds wending their way
to these earthly, sanctuaries in town
and country is a blessed and a hopeful
sight. Tie world is full of evil. A
glorious opportunity is afforded by this
day of cessation from toil and the
preached gospel to repress wrong doing
and infuse holier conceptions in right
living. All" men, whether church
members or not, have an abiding
interest in- the right observance of the
day, and hearing of the preaching of
the gospel by ever swelling crowds of
people. Every man should go to
church and bring his neighbor with
him.
A notable gospel rejector who lived
several decades ago near our city, said
with fearful candor when askfd by a
zealous Christian man for a contribution
to nelp buiid a housejof worship,"be des
pised the hear-demands of religion,
but he would give cheerfully to build
a church euince, Decause it was, ne
must confess, the best of locks to his
granery and meat house. Men may
be averse to thegospel, which is every,
where proclaimed to-day, yet they
must confess its purity and its beauty
and its power, and wish the land to be
shadowed by its benign influences. It
is our great refuge in the last extremity.
