Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23
How to Spend Sunday.

BY law every citizen in this State has
the privilege of not doing on Sunday
what he is obliged to do on other days.
The very practical question meets him,
what different things he can do which
will make this Sunday privilege profit
or delight. Nobody is compelled to go
to meeting or to sing psalms, or to learn
catechism, or to read sermons to fill up
his time. Every one can pick out some
new and unlaborious employment, and if
he knows how, can have sixteen free and
happy hours on one day in seven. 1t is
of no use to object to Sunday as Puritan
Sunday, for the law makes it free day,
and forbids work, so that it shall be free.
1t is a somewhat singular fact, that with
this chance of free day so many can
find nothing better to do than to do busi-
ness and work just as on other days, as if
we did not all work hard enough from
Monday morning to Saturday night. 1t is
also something of a commentary on the
capacity of many people for improvement
and enjoyment, that after little extra
scrubbing and dressing is finished on Sun
day morning, they don't know what to
do with themselves for the rest of the
day, and only consent to go to church
because it is a little less stupid than to
sit at home and cape at their Oaon dull
ness instead of a preachers. Some try a
cigar and novel, others big dinner and
a nap, others sitting around a big stove
and splitting at it. But after all these re-
sources have failed, the only thing left is
to wish for Monday and go to bed very
early. Happy are those who in such an
emergency have young ladies on whom
they may call.
We wish to suggest some things which
can be done, to add interest to the Sunday
of those VINO find its freedom dull
Take an hour Sunday morning and sit
down alone, and think what you have
done during the past week, and agltate
the question whether you have done just
as you really think is best and mean to
keep on doing.
Have you told any lies the past week?
Count them on your fingers, if you can,
and seriously consider whether you al
ways mean to be liar9
Did you get drunk during the past
week, or come near it? Did you talk
temperance, and visit the cupboard to
take those new "bitters?" Did you sell
any poisoned liquor for good, or any poor
home liquor, at fancy price. under a
foreign brand? Was it well? Do you al
ways expect to do such things, and when
will you stop?
Have you abused your neighbor, run
down your competitor in other stores,
slandered other politicians, or hurt any
Woman's reputation the past week? These
things are unspeakably mean; you know
they are. God be thanked if you havn't
done them! But somebody does them.
ask that somebody whether he always
intends to be a mean fellow?
Have you gambled or skunk into infa
nous dens the past week ? Nobody i
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vile places every week, Sundays included
Is it good plan to keep on :? What will
twenty years of such practice make of {
man
Have you cheated anybody in the las
ten days? Have you deceived any EN-
ployer or kept back the just pay of an.
workman ? Have you advertised decep
tions of any kind Does any money sticl
, to YOU which belongs to anybody else
t Are you going to make permanent chea
, of yourself =? Do you want to die as
carpet-bagger What's to hinder it if yo
, are cheating now?
Did you swear last week Don't yo
8 swear rather more than you used to, whe
< your mother taught you? Is there an
e particular benefit in it Let us see if yo
s can stop for week
y Are you not smoking too many cigars
J running up debts which you don't kno
o how to pay; making larger swell tha
l. your capital justifes-and getting read
for smash and a ruin We hope no