South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-08
Resolutions OrCfncfnnatI Con-
ference of the M. E. Church
on the observance OF the
Sabbath, Passed on the 4th
Instant.

Sabbath, Passed on the 4th
instant.
The following is the report o! the
Committee on the observance oil the
Sabbath, which was adopted by tho
Cincinnati Conference, the publica-
ton Of which IN the Cincinnati pa
pers was especially requested
"ResOLued, That the Sabbath is
enforced upon the conscience by the
authority of God, and commended
to the affections by the love and
glory of the Resurrection.
"ResOlUed, That the Sabbath Is
the center and support of the prIn-
pal agencies of moral instruction,
and with 1t will stand or fall say
sixty-ohe thousand houses of relIg-
Ious worship; the weekly offices of
an equal number of recognized re-
hgious teachers, who constantly
stimulate thought and restrain vice
by the sublinest motives known to
mankind e~ight-tenths of the high
CIR institutions of learning, which
are sustained 10y the muniience Of
Christian patronage; the weekly
and Sunday school issues; the
gratuItious and Invaluable lnstruc-
tions of nine hundred and seventy
thousand Sabbath school teachers
the weekly training and careful re-
Iigious education of 5000, 600. of
Sabbath school scholars; the con-
slant circulation of sixteen millions
of volumes of Sabbath school books;
the largest and purest circulating
library on the globe; and the repose,
order, prayerfulness and pIous con-
selirgs of four million Christian
homes.
"ReSolUed, That experience has
stamped the Sabbath with incom-
putable value as a civil institution,
and installed it forever as a fit subs
liect for the recognition and safe
guar DIS o law.
"RsSJiUed, That 1t is the poor
mans refuge from the .exactiOns
of avarice and the expressions of
capital his day Of rest and peace.
and free flowing affection, and
homes delightful Iterchanges his
day for cleanliness, and thought,
and aspiration ; aday when the din
of the shop and roar of tho street
give place 10 sweet SabbaIn bells
and the songs his children sings /;
a day when the law should neuher
permit him to be forced to toll nor
tempted to dissipation.
.sReS0lued, That the world will
not reverence the Sabbath till the
| Church evinces an enlightened ven
Grafton Tor its sanctIty and a gen
uine delight IN lis services. The
world will not keep the Sabbath
from polluuing it until the church,
with unbrosen front, shows how to
keep 1T.
"Res0lUed, That the church must
have clean hands and Il stainless
record in this thing; for Christ's
sake her members mustn't encourage
Sabbath breaking at tho camp
meetings by opening the whIstlIng
trains and rolling carriages /; by
authorizing soda, cigars, candy.
iruit and daguerrean stands within
the law protected limits. and at
their homes by inviting the rattle
of The Sunday milk AMI ice wagons,
the shrIl cry of the Sunday news
boy and the down lighting of the
Sunday newspaper at their doors ;
by Sunday visiting and Sunday
riding to the cemetery under pIous,
but mIsconceived, p~retenses by Il
style of dress and equipagc ~calculn-
ted to leave the impression that we
go to the sanctuary 10 show our
tinery by doorstep visiting on
Sabbath evening, instead of going
to Cots house of prayer ; by stroll
ling about the parks and fields; by
avoidable Sunday riding In the
street cars by making the Sab
bath day of greedy feasting and
needless sleeping by suffering their
children to run the streets. instead
of taking them to the house OF the
Lord, as they pledged themselves
to do when they consecrated them
to God II baptism ; and in a word,
by Indulging in anything grass,
puerlle, or ont of keeping with the
spirit and design of the day which
God made ii sign of covenant be
tween Hum and His people forever.
"ReSoiUed, That where there Is no
sacred Sabbath there is no living
christianity aud there he GIRL
Sabbath will inevitably fall into
dIsuse and contempt, and police.
espionage, and the confessional
u>urp the place of conscience, pow
er. and Christian morality.
'ResoiUid, That we will hereafter
fully aud faithfully bring the Sab
bath, W In it's uses, abuses, and d,s
before the minds of our
congregations, and will unite with
them and all other good citizens in
every just effort to enforce the laws
:. f the civil Sabbath, while We hal
l,w the holy day In our W hearts