Why Save the Lord’s Day? 11 the human soul needs the tonic influence of spiritual wor ship. What is the cloud that looms over every man's path every day? Not sorrow, not poverty, not sickness, not busi ness reverses. The cloud that looms over every path is TEMPTATION. Some time ago a man who had riot been in church for many years, secured a pew in his old church, and is now one of its regular attendants. Someorie asked him the reason. He said, “I have a growing family of sons and daughters. I have been watching my boys with some anxiety. I am alarmed at what I read in the daily papers about the ways of the world, the ease with which men under temptation gO down like reeds in the wind, the frequency with which husbands and wives break up their homes.- I am con vinced there is only one place to bring up a family of chil dren, and that is the church.” Who will question that father’s judgment? He does not want his sons to grow up without moral anchorage, he does not want his daughters to marry those who will play fast and loose with honor, and he knows that the church with its worship is the place where ideals are burnished up, where the dust is cleansed from the soul’s wings, where false standards are corrected. I f a busy brain worker could see a photograph of his mind as it appears on Saturday night, with its six layers of toil and grime, representing the six days contact with the world, he would see himself much in need of a spiritual bath on the Lord’s Day. The average breadwinner is a human foot ball, tossed hither and yon from the goal of Monday to the goal of Saturday, and literally dumped into the Sabbath morn ing bruised from the battle. He is apt to feel soured and out of sorts; and nothing so soothes the wounds as contact with the people of God in the Lord’s house. A COMPLETE MAN So the Sabbath was made for man, that he might be in every sense MAN! Something more than a beast of burden,
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