The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-08-08


pomp had never been seen in Virginia.
The pumed hearse, the dirge breathing
brass bands, the closed marts of business,
the flags dropping at halfnast, the long
ploddiDg procession of uniformed secret
societies. military battalians and fire
companies, draped engines, carriages oi
1 officials and citizens In vehicles and on
foot, attracted mnItitudes of spectators
to the sidewalks. roofs and windows
and, for years afterward the degree of
grandeur attained by any civic display in
Virginia was determined by comparison
with Buck Fanshaw S funeral.
DR.. Holland on the Sunday Question.
| OF the Importance of the Sabbath, in
the vital economy Of the American pee
! pie, there Is no longer any doubt With
al the periodical rest it will bring us, we
still lind ourselves overWorked; and the
wrecks of paralysis are strewn around us
on every hand. Without it we should
| find ourselves despoiled of our most eff
cleut and reliable safeguard In the dan
gers which beset the paths of business en-
terprise. As matter Of economy there
fore-as a conservative of health and life
and the power to work-the Sabbath, OBJ
strictly as day Of rest from secular Ia
bor is of the utmost importance.-We
cannot afford to day and we shall never
| be able TO afford, to give it up to labor,
| either in the city or country. Expert
ence has settled this point, and yields
upon every hand its testimonies to the
wisdom Of the divine institution. As
measure OF social, moral, and physical
| health-as q measure ofindustrial econo
my the ordination of a day Of periodical
/ l. al, III IL. S,I la.
would come le2itimately within the scope
of legislation. Il we had no Sabbath it
would be the duty of the State to ordain
one and, as we have it, it is equally
the duty of the State to protect 1t, and
confirm to the people the material and
vital benefit which it is so well calcua-
ted to secure.
There are certain other facts connec-
ted with the observance of the Sabbath
| III America which are quite as we'll estab-
lished as the one 70 which we have allu-
| ded, the most prominent of which Is
that the high morality and spirituality
of any community depends uniformly on
its observances of the Sabbath We do
not believe there is deeply religious
community in America, of any name,
that does not observe one day In seven
as a day specially devoted to religion.
The earnest Christian or Jewish woi kers,
everywhere, are Sabbath keepers, In
their seperate ways and days. 1t is very
well to talk about an everyday Christi
anity," and better to possess and prac-
tice it; but there certainly is precious
little OF it where the Sabbath is not OBJ
served The religious faculties, sent;-
ments, and susceptbilties, under all
schemes and systems of religion, are the
subjects Of culture, and imperativey
need the periodical food and stimulus
which come with Sabbath institutions
and ministries. The prevalence and per-
manence OF a pure Christianity, in this
country, depend mainly on what can be
done for them on Sunday. 1.-THE enemies
Of Christianity could wipe out the Sab
bath, they would do more to destroy the
power Of the religion they condemn than
all the Ranans and Strausses have ever
or can do. They understand this, and
their efforts will be directed to this end
through every specious protest, plea and
| plan.
The most religious and earnest of the
Catholic clergy Of Europe lament the
fact that the Sunday of their church and
! their several countries is day of amuse-
meat. They see, and the public ac-
| knowledge, that without the English and
American Sabbath they work for the
| spiritual benefit of their people at sad
! disadvantage. 1t is this European Sab
bath, Or Sunday, which we are told is to
come to America at last through her for
eign population. We hope not. We
would like to ask those who would rejoice
in Its advent, how much it has done for
the countries where it exists. Go to TIA
iy, France, Spain, lreland-to any part
Of Germany. Catholic or lnfdel, and
! lind If possible any people so temperate,
pure, chaste, truthful and benevolent as
! the Sabbath-keeping communities Of
America. 1t cannot be done.-The thea
ter, the horse-race, the ball, the cricket
ground, the lager beer saloon, have no.
| thing IN them that can take the place of
! the institutions Of religion. They are es-
tablished and practiced in the interest Of
the animal, and not at all in the interest
OF the moral or Intellectual side Of HUI
manlty.-They can neither build up nor
| purify. They minister only to thought
lessness aud brutality. So much, then,
seems obvious: list That we cannot do
without Sunday as day OF physical and
mental rest. I'd. That either as a conse-
quence or cOncomitant, moral and spir
ltuat improvement goes always with the
| observance of Sunday as a religious day
and, Sd. That Sunday, as day of amuse
ment simply, is proftless to the better
anu nobler side OF human nature Of hui
! man life. Now the questions relating 10
! the opening of parks, libraries, reading
! rooms, DC, IN great cities, on Sunday,
are not moral OF religious questions al all
they are to be settled by experiment.
1t Is to be remembered that there are
/ large numbers OF the young in all large
cities who have no home. They sleep in
little rooms, In which, in winter, they
have no fire. and can never sit with com
tort. They are without congenial society.
/ They have not the entree Of other homes
and they must go somewhere, and really
need to so somewhere. Christian court
esy does much to bring them into Christi
an association, and ought to do "a thou
sand times more. The least it can do is
! to open ali those doors which lead to
pure influences and to the entertainment
OF the better side Of human nature. A
man who seeks the society Of good books.
or the society of those who love good
books, or chooses to wander out for
the one look OF nature and the one feast
of p-re air which the week can give him,
is not to be met by bar or ban. What
I ever feels the man and Ignores or starves
the brute is to be fostered as Christian
agency. The Sabbath was made for man,
aud not man for the Sabbath This is
not religion, but pagan slavery, which
makes of Sunday pcnance and sacri-
fee. 1t Is better that man be in a lib
rary than alone all the time. 1t is bet
ter that he wander in the park than even
feei the temptation to enter a drinking
S loen or a brothel. The Sunday horse
car l. justified in that it takes thousands
TO church who could hardly go otherwise.
The open library is justified in that it is
road which leads in good direction.