We have a fighting chance to save this nation, and what we want is men
and women who have moral courage to stand up and say:
"No, I will not touch the Sunday paper, and all the influence I have I
will throw dead against it. I will not go away on Saturday evening if
I have to travel on Sunday to get back. I will not do unnecessary work
on the sabbath. I will do all I can to keep it holy as God commanded."
But some one says: "Mr. Moody, what are you going to do? I have to
work seven days a week or starve."
Then starve! Wouldn't it be a grand thing to have a martyr in the
nineteenth century? "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the
church." Some one says the seed is getting very low; it has been a
long time since we have had any seed. I would give something to erect
a monument to such a martyr to his fidelity to God's law. I would go
around the world to attend his funeral.
We want to-day men who will make up their minds to do what is right,
and stand by it if the heavens tumble on their heads. What is to
become of Christian Associations and Sunday Schools, of churches and
Christian Endeavor Societies, if the Christian sabbath is given up to
recreation, and made a holiday? Hasn't the time come to call a halt if
men want power with God? Let men call you narrow and bigoted, but be
man enough to stand by God's law, and you will have power and
blessing. That is the kind of Christianity we want just now in this
country. Any man can go with the crowd, but we want men who will go
against the current.
Sabbath-breaker, are you ready to step into the scales?