Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-06-06
MistaIan&ons.
Run and the sabbnfh.

Whether all men are agreed with US or
not as to the extent and magnitude of the
evils produced in our world by rum, there
can be no question in the mind of every in
telligent, observant Christian man that by
its sale and use Sabbath descration is very
largely promoted, especially in our larger
cities. =
Whilst men of every other pursuit shut
up their stores and manufactures, their Of
fee or contingencies, and abstain from all
secular employment on the Lords day, the
bar-room, and the saloon, and the low grog-
gerry are all open unblushingly for the sale
of strong drink, and around those corners
where these establishments are to be found
and, alas they are legion-members of
the precocious manhood of Our city will
ever be found, with loud talk, profane jests,
and obscene remark to the annoyance of
the quiet passer to the house of God, and
to the scandal of our community.
1t may be safely estimated that in New
York alone, ten thousand of such haunts of
various grade, may be found in full blast on
every Sabbath, pouring out a continuous
stream of pollution and death, alluring our
youth, the hope of our land, to habits of
dissipation and Misunderstanding our
manhood with syrene tongue, and every
blandishment from the house of prayer,
and from the sacred and neglected duties
and happiness of home.
God requires that we sanctify this day
and hallow it to him. Our salute laws based
on the requirements of the Decalogue, pro-
vide for its observance. From every pull
pit in our lands, in every school-house in
our wide domain, around every hearth stone,
the same great truth is taught again, and
have none so ignorant but know that the
first day of the week is the Sabbath-that
all worldly employments or recreation there
on are sinful and unlawful and yet through
the seduction of the bowl, or the more des-
picable love of gain, thousands systemati-
cally disregard the injunction and prosecute
their calling, and tens of thousands permit
themselves to be drawn within the vortex of
the fatal whirl, which if continued in will
surely draw them down to a speedy DEATH
Shall these things be! Is there not virtue
and religion and patriotism enough amongst
us to stay this tide of DISSOLUTION? Wemay
be told the law is impotent ayel so it is,
when there is no desire on the part of the
officials to enforce it; and when our citizens
look on from day to day, and from year to
year with callous Indifference.
= Let every pulpit in our city cry out
against this terrible evil--let all the presses
raise their note of warning-let the good
and true of every denomination, and of
every class, unite together and resolve that
the Sabbath shall be houored let ev-
cry man that loves that day make it his
business to see that it is respected, and we
shall raise righteous clamor on the subject
that will blanch the cheeks and pale the
heart of every servant of the evil one that
seeks in this manner to dishonor God and
desecrate His day.
''The Sabbath was made for man." An
all-wise and benefcent Jehovah has provi-
ded for him this day of rest-rest not only
from worldly labor, but from worldly cares
rest, that every faculty may be recruited
and refreshed, and that in closer communion
with his God, he may be strengthened for
the duties and trials of the comming week.
By such employment of this day, it will be-
come to US as people, national good, and
to every family, a weekly recurring bless
ing; but the demon of the rum shop, in
appropriating it to his own use, and thus
descreting and dishonoring it, has converted
the blessing to curse.-American Tenn
perance Union.