The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-08-04


unnecessary work on the Lords day. But
sky they dedicated the hours OF the dag to
the worship Of God. Degenerate must be
their sons who would join hands with foreign
infidelity, and supplant the quiet, peaceful
and hallowed Sabbath Of tho Puritan and the
Christian; by q day OF Amusement and revet.
~, and dethand for the Church and Sabbath
School, the theatre, And drinking and driving
park. Among the most fruitful sources Of
representative Of witch is ID our. own midst.
When such a park Is instituted aud Conducted
In tho landable interest Of loalthfii recreation,
and social md intellectual eniosnent, It may
be beneficial and an honor to al1y coxnnaunity,
but whom theirs IL no distinction made Between
the Sabbath and other days, and the gates are
thrown open 70 the public, q price sof admis-
sion charged, a restaurant rented for traffic,
and ice cream, confectionaries, and articles of
drink sold on the Sabbath and general visi-
tation of the place invited and encouraged,
and the whole thing run III the interest of
pleasure and profit on the Lords day, then
the park becomes an evil, means of general
decentralization, and public o6Snse.
Even camp-meeting, which, when held
solely for religious purposes, may be all right
and do good, but when the principal and pub
lished object j. to make money, and every M
traffic. crowding the highways with private
vehicles and public hacks reflIesS driving
and racing OF horses INDUCED fn5 Gfid the
quiet and order of the Sabbath broken by
drunkenness, profanity, and the religious SER
vices of the house of God disturbed by the
song Of revelry in the street then even d
compromising Is not jnstifabfe. K becomes
means of great evil; and by many Is only a
pretex for more general sabbath Dissertation.
>kck1x
lated, and such wholesale disregard and
defiance Of God laws, will do more to de-
moralize the young people of q community
than all the churches, meetings and Sabbath
Schools can counteract In a long time and
who can measure the evil consequences of q
succession of half dozen Sabbaths, desecrat-
ed in this way. All camp-meetings should be
kept under proper restraint /; the gates kept
closed, and no traffic whatever permitted on
the Sabbath day, like at Ocean Grove, Round
Lake and other places. At Round Lake, by
an act of the Legislature, even the Sunday
trains are not permitted to stop at the depot,
and all the visitors that would spend Sunday
at the camp-meeting must come before the
Sabbath. Where there Ii no restraint what
soeyer on Sunday travel and traffic, even a
camp-meeting may be nuisance.
In an intelligent community IKE this, |
think one Of two things will come to pass,
either the whole thing will break down from
its own weight of evil, or else the moral sense
of the people viii rise In opposition to 1t, and
render it disreputable.
And in the namc of religion and humanity,
and IN memory of the good people of all
denominations that in the past, and in the
present, have labored aud do now labor for
the social, intellectual and spiritual I'M
provement of this community, l protest
against this, and an forms of Sabbath
dissertation, and can dpoii you to abstain from
and discourage the sames J. P. MILitER.
New Hope, Pa.