The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-21

merits sre lAvs OF God uvesisd by the Kgo os resson
spo pssufe, sns asr whon tps OF oar ,us
not PEI mis- 20 be go nplaty
First .otsi sOstpeno@ fOa Kinds OF pbyri.sJ ex
eruoo Tor pe'Mo treDty Hour IL az ysr,suc co
With ,he ese II beanh Naure nae PRESCRIBED ssssoa
OF rest, sno mn rer'd for s0eou s.e,:
bu, hsvs tha, sieeo mag oe pj
prolonged aud that .fer Dtervs i Of eiga h,a
rect IN Sou sgso peo.es4ry 70 prsssot
TORPID oucu,at,as ~ 0u'ds Of o,dy .sd "a ,ea
oepcy DOs"io seoreticos ~oioa .nd 10 dsarsd
bos'eo D-,y soiuNoos (s0d cleanliness 10 usx.
sod 10 e@) ssaeU'is 20 health tnso
tive ~aik af 8.m boars -ito tbs sp,de
toe como bss; qua tho Scp'cu Pces,y es,sn ppy
ciau who torpid shem nu s-uoay -sna emotions 10
bst dsy wna IA 'n worse, she Dpfsoo M ~ ooi deco
IN. seo system ~b.p al sod exercise are sictef
tor gro~xhes ~ On % ia no fscs a iod's provi-oce,
the teaching "a Ihiht and The uet axiohs of nta avn
lroiss.,UU
ksc@-sise ,os, ths opposite extreme " OF ooorse
equally msch,evo,s Bus let VA observe upon this, that
out o, sbo,ers die Of hsyd ~ok. rns great
est moraWy snoog toe poorer clsssts snong those
~ho 40 nos work physically enough fne oaod Ion
~esver 'be factory oprratvu the Journey tsO the
pe Espsper ediIo ito@e whose Fingers aon1 move, Or
~bcse brain alone ks, and suffer from bid air.
us boDrs at continuous cop1Demeo. % mpnotn
bons avo'aunps-'or 'hsAe we ~ans not SAD
bath Of greetts cnnbnt nspt, of ieFs
Cal tx.rtmnIOt sabbath 0 rest, bot rather StoDsIa
OF isoW-shst "a isoor OF more h-s' htu. KIND, ~,th
charge scene exercise 10 rDe esn breeze 'ns grees
deos ubde' the open SKY We .aot. no~ever, for mo
pubic gene silly more thea this We require Sab,sth no
epsesd al the days OF toe sbat
bp,Dent Of DO one DAY sbaii be injarouss excessive,
every osy toers should be that reasonable
Attenuation Of lsDor and repe, OF 10 door aud odt.ot
o'of exercise, physsca' an en a. exerron. which Ae
UOst conducive o sigot VI ,"'nd AID hoy Co i'ct
each objecl fet all may LII ui. problem,
gu " II nos bv an auispce win fanaiiclsn that pnsn
,bropis,1 all. si,siD its so,UtioD
Se'ond Morally tbe enforcement oi any religious
ohssvcts 1bseyer the giDo, 'he encouragement OF
cnLye Duonsi f-lsshood roe man ~nc on a Sunday 10
Compelled " pct Out~aso seeming which NOT
corIeepond with bis inward feeiogs, ~ made to lie De-
fore sod and man; end for this SsbbIh hyp0cr'sy
of which nen suiity Saoba,o iegsisoss responsi-
BILE. Add further the epfOrce ment OF idlebess Ia
devotion
Gay moral ilectua pursu there
have d. ev,oue training for loem Wners tbers his
been DO aiDIR but wnere large Of too
lopnsfn have been suffered % grow ia gnor Of
he nst e' mens OF buman kDo ~ieee, soe power Of
teuops thought IL ~apuog ao'mA, osncs prehomioae,
shd ANIMAL X anncAhoDs Gao atone svppy zoe eod mso'
by the ceetAop or mstbADcal employ UeOt. With sucn
past NEE ~bch have rendered eea and the drinking
aid bling of the shiskey shops of Scosn, and
Deer shops aud pablo houses o. Eoslaod. rhoss ~a5
wouc eRsAte Tor man other thsn be IA, mus, sns~er
for the cOttequep oes IN mr. Make.
In CONCLUSION, would address few words TO those
whom ressopbR viii leave urooo vioced, aud ~ho vii
coDtrUe 10 ags,s u pubc paeOce exDsusted for the
susleDeoD on Sundays 81 ra~sy aud Pos ON com nu
p,cstop. You quote the aeca'ngoe II Elk. JUS Instead
OF the cOnmaoCs OF Christ Ins-t upon the al
tDofy OF tne monks OF Moses equal TO that
OF the New Testament Out OF your OVID is~ be ye
judged"
Perhaps the history of hrmsu is mt 70
be found exsmDe q ext,ss sg,Dt Inconsistency
and ~i'ul bhpdo,ss than the dsy readoe asd pro co
sing TO believe that God rese1 the seventh day aOd
therefore sauctoed It, snO rhe xftes assumcg tbs.
we ooey the command 10 keep hos the Sabbath day os
observing cot tie seventh Gay, but the dst day the DAP
come rsseo the bes.hen worship Of the suoths diy
when Goo oid Dot rect out mad oDy just the
Of creation Way II the institution eers ,uteU del
10 be n,orhtve of cfesson, IS not evident tns
ny changing ,be Gay we entirely sub7ert its character
ano defeat the o.inal des'e2 Ist possible to nss'ns
more orec breach ,rso tt,s OF pjstiye ordosocep Ana
~nai Is the pennityP "Whosoever d1etn york tbs
Sabbath Gay (that from evening of Friday the
evening OF sa'uroa), be shall surely DO put 10 death
Exodus xxi, Is
'snd while cbtdr~p Israel were IN the wd erness
'hsy founo 50 bst sheIed sek. uDoo tbe ssboh d.,
Motes snd aaron AND uns all toe corgrsgsuo and the
pul him ward becsuse not declared ~hss should DO
Ard the Lord said unto Aoss. the shall be surely
TO destb all tie shall Stone hin with siJaos vita
And ali congregation brought him without IN. camp
ed Moses. hunters w. ~ Sc
pun shnent dispropor,iopate 70 the o.ncs is usus
ly explained by divipes having been awarded not to
the gathering sticks, but to the prssu npiou Of
wbicn the man was guilty DO had res stad vino CON
msDd. But would the presumption have lees the
man had proIeesed his willingness to keep Saooah
the day coLsecrsAd to BaAthe Sunday Of that period
than the be stben holiday Was very offence
Of which Naaman guilty when he saia Are not aba
waters Of Israeli May not wash in them aud be clean?
Kings, v. IL
When We recently read the observation OF one 0. the
bishops In the British house OF LORDS, that Christian
preate he exuited IN the o peIitious that
been presented for the better OF tae
we could not but AK ourselves would have
been the fate OF this very prels.e he bad
lived three thousand years ago, and had then,
like the man who had gathered sticks on the sabbath m
bseB called upon 10 before Moses for
Bis present opinions and practice in regard to the
sevance Of this instuton9 Imagine the sod
" Here is emo teaches tbEt the seventh day In
not TO be kept a. Sabbath; neither a memorial OF
Gods resting on that day OF the Exodus from Egypt.
but that aDosner day should be observed instesd"
Stone him 10 desth"
ssThs man declares that the Sabbath is not to be "a
perpetual covenant between God aud rae bu. that
seventh cay 10 70 be changed for the first, honor of
another prophet like unto Moses, although he can pro
duce 10 authority 70 thst effect"
" Stone him 10 death"
"rhs man WAS found breaking the command that no
fire should he snded the Sabbath day Exodus XXX
81 and partakpg OF sumpaous entertain prepared
not the day before but On the Sabbath day, for himself
"rbs man. because be is wealthy, liz driven 10 hs cha
riot with horses, and coachmen and foomeu, all tho
footmen, be employs in his SERVICE
public worrs,p orsstfai Of the command tina his man
should rest on the sabbath day"
"Stone him to death"
We leave the sabbaiarisn in the dilemma in which his
creed has placed him. We who believe with Christ that
everything said "by them Of old tme' not said Of
Cod not concerned with the pebal,y OF Jaw which
VIC do rot accept nor ia 1t Incumbent upon be apo
oGkts for its severity In upcvized states OF society
human life s held cheap, and capital punsbments
sede nearly other In our own country and in Ire
land the fact TOO familiar that life has often taken
for the offence Of refusing 10 strike work At the bidding
Trades Union and We need not therefore doubt, apart
life taken under the circumstances described BY the
emancipated slaves of Egyptian bondage
The dass OF sapguDaiy codes have gone by. Opinion
is in favor of the total abolition of penalty Of DEATH
excepting for murder which call the grextest OF ali
crimes But the crime OF depriving fecw crea-
ure OF life liz not the offence Of greatest magnitude
which any human being be guilty If capital punish
nents be allowable for that, then would death without
mercy-the death or the Mosaic law death by soning-
be the appropriate penalty not Of Sab oeh breaking but
OF trafnckpg In ruperstion trading in mans weak
uestes, and with bis loest aspirations vertng his
instincts Of and for the wonderful
mirabe into abect terrors his most sacred
g,ef his solemn moments Of parting the confines Of
eternity, his hopes Of immortality, into implements
Of craft, source OF income, miserable instrument Of
popularity and power and the object attained ieavor
ing to perpeuate II, by proclsimng the nfabirty Of
creeds and canons prosecuting those woo question
nhdeIs ~ God resisting the extension Of knowledge
sDeng the masses, rendering exclusive an6 mina
tnd thus seeking to crush the human mind under tho
wheels OF the modern Jugge.naut Of conventional
doatry.
Happily the world has not been abandoned TO such guild
ance God has not left himself without witnesses or she
In nupna baove