Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-07-14
NJ ORNtMG APPEAL.
SUNDAY READING.

Ga ave merely held us own ny heepll| SUR
ri,I; within itself, and on its own soil repell-
iog a. we'll AZ possible AL innovations. Pun
tauisrn is not popular. 1t does not deserve to
lie 80 But there needs TO be a better Sab
baib keeping, for the sake of morals as well as
Of religion, than the horse-racing Sundays OF
our time and latitude. We do not 80 much
t.oiore what is called Sabbath breaking" as
we do the degrading of the day by vicious
customs and courses, An honest horse race ia
hctter than q dishonest sermon on any day of
tae wsex; but there is better way 20 spend
.uur Sundays than either by making trotting
matches, or wasting our time listening to the
Reverend Forcible Feeble ss he dr.vels out
STOLEN sermons or retails the small hypecricies
of IN unworthy member Of his sacred calling
|eare of those who believe in a rational in
diligence in amusemonts on Sunday. And
Why not make Sunday exercises attractive TO
tho SINNER instead OF insisting upon putting
> ma sins i'll the pillory before his eyes and be-
l,horiRG his soul with the vicarious cudgels of
GiyIna WRATH They who, unwilling to COM
promise with sin, persist i'll holding it off at
arr's length and will accept nothing from it
but its own unconditional surrender, doubtless
"hoid che fort" but they hold what nobody
cares 70 carry by either seize or assault. Cor
taiIly thoy make no captures and gain but
few stout recruits. Compromise is an admit
I'D quality and agent of craftsmanship. 1t Is
ia some measure an employment Of strategy.
, , aGsusts difficulties and smooths the road to
,,si,.cc and good neighborship. In searching
soopt fsr fair middle ground between Pun.
tarisa! and total depravity, why cannot the
y,g,sA-,h"rs offer some attractive and reaaona-
Viz. rn.ans Of interesting the worldiy2 Half
}nai IS better than no bread. Half Sunday
wei! snent-that IS TO say, spent within hear
III, Of good music and good talk from the pull
Int i, better than Sunday wholly spent III
barroons and on the race course. Tits - 81
ago II advancement and al era OF progress.
'Nr'atv thinks OF improving upon certain set
.}laq ma long approved elementais. The Al
1,habct and the Arabic numerals seem to
lisvt. ,.y,lausted ali requirements in their way.
VIE Nay, the Truth ard tho Light are not at
MI sutlect to the improvements Of ingenuity
llIo Only question which concerns the noure-
.,.Jcrl,e mind IA, which is the Way; what IS
III, Truth: and Where is the Light? But
WIN. these ample and acceptable slmples are
a.ot susceptible of improvement at the hands
81 the inventor, there is growing spirit of
inquiry in the public mud which demands
that its teachers come QUE Of the old rutS and
lcsi with the great questions of the times.
Let oar broader minded preachers i'll some
,nsasure accept things they are In the
church as we'll as out of it, revolutions never
turn backwards. A scheme of religion which
yt,lcd strongly OH the fear o hell as an in
coniivc &" its own acceptance has its uses and
its l"aor in compelling an observance of the
"pritt' Sabbath; but the present generation
nav escaped the shackles and the gloom of
iirals,- lodi Barebones. And yet this is a
people Inclined tn religious thought. But
high standard of public enlightenment de-
1nurds something satisfactory, elevating and
1easonahle. There is another literature than |
that ot the Bible which might well be alterna
ted from time to time with that of that great |
book, In the pulplts and the churches. There |
y Poetry, which appeals TO our purer nature; |
Art which finds affinity with and lends guild !
once to orr tastes; Science which awakens us |
10 ut earnest seeking for the Truth; the |
Drama which instructs us in the manners and !
motives Of life; and tho subject of Education !
which, Justly treated, reminds liz of the i'm
l"rtance OF morality As a prime factor III our
SOFIA! and political life. Year after year orr
pulpGs have poured forth their disquisitions
lp"n TIE doctrines and dogmas Of sectarian
creed These have been elaborated past all
possibility of freshness or novelty, and in too
many instances are resolved into the most
Iife:ess platitudes. They stand, too, upon
base OF their OWE constructing; and their sus-
tanning reasons run round in a circle. Why
not let these sectarian bases rest secure, if Sc
cure at all, i'll their own inherent strength -
II Of ssch strength they possessed 1t is
not deeme3,necesslry i'll our Legislatures and
courts to assert, in formal phrase, day by day
he exact words and phrases of The Declara-
non of Independence. Why then, may not
he churches, self-eontent in their faith, find
something else for their ministers to talk of
hsa the substratum IF doctrine of whose {
'onndness and absolute tenability they pro- I
less 50 much oonvictioni As we have limited, !