Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-14
A Proper Sentiment.
Let us have One Day of Rest for All.

There is a growing sentiment in
this com munity against the opening
of places of business on Sunday. This
idea should be fostered. There are
two reasons for this proposition. The
first is that there are many people
who from honest conviction, regard
the Sabbath as the Lords day, and a
Divinely appointed season at which
SECULAR PURSUITS
Should be abandoned, and the mind
left, so far as the nature of humanity
will allow it, to the contemplation of
matters appertaining to the moral and
spiritual welfare of our souls. No one
possessed of an ordinary amount of
Judgment dare attack this reason for
a more general observance of the day
appointed as we were early taught for
rest and reflection. This moral or
more properly speaking, religious sen-
timent commands respect.
ANOTHER REASON
For the more general observance of
the day by all sects and denomina-
tions, is that all men need day of
rest. One of the great evils of our
time and one that most materially af-
fects the sanitary condition of our
communities is that the present gen.
Grafton is too much given to excessive
physical and mental labor in the av-
aricious effort for the requirement of
wealth. The God of most of us is the
dollar. In this regard we may take
a lesson from both the English and
the Germans. There are no national
tiles who enter more fully nor more
philosophically into the enjoyments
of life in rational manner than do
these people. The mind and body of
man can stand just so much strain and
no more, and when the last limit is
reached a collapse ensues.
HUMAN NATURE
Is like river; it can stand so much
force and no more. Too much
pressure in this material point of ar-
plication is demonstrated by many a
practical illustration in dire disaster.
The rule adopted in the past and more
nutural ages than the present that a
given time should be given to the wor-
ship of God, so much to the service of
our feilow-men, and so much to re.
freshment and rest applies as well
now as in the days af King Solomon.
And in making such an argument it
is not in the spirit of Puritanical or
thodoxy, but with the belief that in the
requirements of the religious idea
there should he a liberality of thought
and action. Freedom in the exercise
of the emotional element If our ma
lures is God-given prerogative
vouchsafed to all men. The intellect
of man when properly developed, ac-
knowledges a veneration for Deity;
and yet we cannot all agree in our
methods of worship. Some may find
the greater devotional enjoyment and
comfort at the altar or the shrine or
THE SYNAGOGUE
And others may worship God with
equal sincerity and spiritual as we'll
as bodily benefit in paying their
acknowledgements in the woods and
fields where Nature in her full devel-
opment points in the purest eloquence
to the Maker of all things. These sug-
gestions are not made in sectaran or
dogmatical spirit, but as what we
deem logical reasons for advocating
an observance of the Sabbath in some
form. There should be no restriction
as to the method, but the nature of
our being demands both a period of
rest and change of scene from time to
time as well as a proper regard for
Deity.