Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-27
SUNDAY READING.

contained in the Bible Is apt to BRING on a
confusion of thoughts and a poverty OF action
Themes fatally abundant. These dlssl-
pate directness and discourage cOgency. The
modest flower of simplicity is lost amid wild
luxuriance and vast variety of foliage. But
one may Gull bud or blossom at random, and
taking it apart ponder over the cunning of its
structure and the beauties OF It's form and col
oring Consider We the lilies of the field.
We catch dim glimpse of the perplexities
which are thurst upon the good man whose
chosen labors confront him with the weekly
'stent of two written studied sermons.
His burden is almost as wearisome and hard
to bear as that of the press-wrter whose tread
mill never rests at any leisure inviting place
during the six days wherein he is commanded
to labor and do all his work This injunction
brings as to a fruitful text. 1t is found i'll
the last Chapter of the Acts of the Presbyte-
rians, and reads as follows
Chicago, May 25-In the Presbyterian As
sembly this morning there long per
.onal and excited discussion on the standing
of church members who own stock i'll a paper
which is published on Sunday The whole
subject of violation of the Fourth Command
ment came into the debate, and the proprietN
of church members owning gas stock, street
railway stock. railroad stock or mining stock
was questioned The case in dispute was oc-
casioned by the report of the Committee on
Bills and 0vertures that the synod of Eric
might discipline a church in Erie Presbytery
which persisted in retaining for its pastor 4
man who part proprietor of a Plttsbug
paper which published a Sunday edition. Fl
nallv the report was adopted by nearly a unan-
imOus vote
There are some places from which the
world does not move 1t seems not to have
stirred apast the abding-places OF religious
bigotry out into the purer air OF liberation,
philosophy and just conformity to the uses
of this world. If a churchman's crops grow
through the Sundays of the summer-tide; if |
his ship sails into harbor ON the Sabhathday; |
if his business ventures ripen on the first day
of the week, shall he not reap the profits of
these things and still be worthy to sit in the |
seats of the chosen! As to Sunday papers, |
these are as much more cOnfornabe To the |
Fourth Commandment than papers which are
published on Monday, as the work of type |
OH Is ~ ollC1I H''lh
done on the so-called Christian Sabbath. The |
MORNING APPEAL makes its appearance on
Sunday-hence these discursive preachments.
We of the editorial bureau and they of the
composing stick do the work which brings
forth this sheet, on Saturday. Our wicked
(Which we confess with contritiom) con-
sists in permitting the carrier (who is still in
the freshness of his youth and has ample time
to out9row his SIM, to deliver the same in the
morning ere yet the Sabbath bells have been
rung. There are, we think, as many as five
clergymen who are fellow-sinners with us if
the receiver is as bad as the. But for the
fact that our carrier delivers to them, on the
morning of the Sabbath day, this secular
print, they would be without the matutinal
stimulation of its tonic newsinesS. If We sin
We sin i'll company with some truly religious
men and women. VIII these pray for the
carrier that his early morning sins be washed
away and forgiven 1t is easy to say that
these Presbyterians i'll Synod assembled
strained at gnat. Perhaps we think they {
did; perhaps on the contrary We are agtated {
Will NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DN lnelf remuneration OF
what they deem the sin of Sabbath breaking I
by one OF their commandments. At any rate ,
We think they struggle to be consistent. Sun a
day, observed as day to be kept holy, adj c
mlts of no worldly pursuits. The mind must /
be held level to the things of another and !
different world. In the home beyond the O
skies imagined by John Calvin and contem- ?
plated by his followers there are no riotous t
trivolities no careless laughter no thought
less mirth To get there this body of sin !,
must be mortified Our earthly propensities a
must be restrained. There are minds, which, $,
n the contemplation of Calvanistic Heaven !:
eel in their sinful hearts that they would ~
'ather, if they might have their wicked choice, 81
tay here than go there. These do not relish II
he Puritanical idea, Possibly there are mo "'
nents when they regard He'll with less appre- q
tension than they look upon Mr.. Calvin's tt
ron clad Heaven. OF such are they who will Ii
cotf at this illumination of the Chicago Synod re
We of the MORNING APPEAL, however, are ~
Tilling to admit the consistency of the action ii
AIKEN by that body. We do not see, indeed. pc
ow they could consistently do otherwise. CT
'hrist .said that the Sabbath was made for v
nan and not man for the Sabbath and he | /,