Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-02
DISSERTATIONS
SERMON.

uOly, SdAu CAo VOICE AIOAu 'o1AAl, duu tue
pulpit to day echoes and re-echoes the man
date, emphasizing and adding to it words of
warning of the penalties attached to DISC
bedience of the Divine command. Sabbath
dissertation is a great and growing evil,
fraught with consequences the most dire to
the moral welfare of the community and the
nation. It breeds contempt for the laws
of both God and man, and it's continuance
and growth cannot fail to have demoraliz-
ing and debasing effect upon future gen
erations.
Believing, as it does, in proper observ-
ance of the Lords day, the GLOBE is in
hearty sympathy with the clergy who of late
have been calling particular attention to the
necessity for better observance of the day,
and will always labor to that end. It may,
therefore, be allowed the right to criticise it's
co-laborers, not in any spirit of cavil, but
with sincere desire to promote cause so
conducive to public morality. We are much
afraid that the zeal of cur clerical brethren has
carried them too far, and that by demanding
extreme repressive measures they will injure
instead of benefit the reform. AS an in
stance of this over zeal we may refer to the
resolutions adopted last week by the general
synod of the Reformed Presbyterians at New
York, in which strong protest is entered
against "Sabbath excursions by land and by
sea; running of freight and passenger trains;
the employment of railroad hands in work
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driving to our parks for recreation; attend
ing to secular business in counting rooms
and thoroughfares; and reading secular pa
pers and works of felton,
Many of these practices SO common of
late are extremely reprehensible and ought
to be interdicted; others are in themselves
harmless and even to be encouraged. Those
who inveigh against visiting the parks on
the Sabbath, must have forgotten that the
Savior himself was won't to walk with his
disciples in the fields on the Sabbath day,
and nowhere prohibited by word or example,
communion with nature. And he must have
a stolid mind who, in these beauteous sum-
mer days, can loll in the shade of the UNI
fit therefrom- cannot mentally
Look through nature up to natures Cod
The quiet of the wood is in itself great
Outstanding agency, for it elevates, puri-
ies and ennobles the mind.
The introduction of the publication and
reading of secular newspapers on the Sab
bath is perhaps too general. Some of the
papers published on Sunday are no doubt
unfit reading for the Sabbath-or any other
days reading. But with the GLOBE the case
is different. The SUNDAY GLOBE is paper
replete with religious instruction. Besides
containing the news of the day-a prime ne
cessity in these times-it has large assort-
ment of instructive matter, embodying and
intoxicating great moral truths, which, if fol-
lowed, would make the world purer and
better. A moral lesson is none the less
forcible because it is conveyed through the
medium Of an interesting story, or an anus
ing sketch. While the pulpit appeals to
hundreds, the GLOBE finds ready hearing
from thousands. The influence of the pull
pit is prescribed by the narrow limits of the
righteous few who fill the pews; the inhu-
ence of the GLOBE is far-reaching, and incul-
Gates great moral principles in the mansion
and the cabin, among the rich and the poor,
the just and the unjust. To deprive the
people of the SUNDAY GLOBE would be to de-
prive them of great moral factor, and leave
them to seek entertainment in directions
that must of necessity be hurtful, for
Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.''
Instead of trying to circumscribe the in