Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-10-12
PHARISAICAL.


times, is the spirit of iberslity in regard to
religious observances, which has marked the
last twenty years or less. 1t had its incep-
ton first in the great revival which swept
over the world about 1858, and in the strict
Sunday laws which grew out of that move
msnt; laws made only to be broken. When
street railways were first inauguratea, there
was long and stubborn fight to prevent
them from running on Sunday, and Jealous
church members, and wealthy clergymen, who
used their family carriages and kept their SER
wants at work, notwithstanding the injunction
of the fourth commandment that d" they nor
their man servant, nor their maid servant, nor
their CATTLE" should labor on the Sabbath
day, fought in courts and through the press,
and labored from the pulpit, to prevent the
Dissertation of the Sabbath, by furnishing the
poor man and his sickly wife, seven-cent
ride to church, or emptyinS the saloons, by
giving the working population an opportunity
of going out to parks, and country strolls, and
fresh air. But it was labor in vain. There
was no common sense in it, and now even
those very men are glad to avail themselves
of the cheap and swift conveyance, and We
have ridden en- street cars with many
Clergyman on the way to his pulpit since that
time. Some of the strongest opponets OF run
ming the cars on sunday were the saloon men,
who knowing well, that if men could reach
30 easily and chesply the suburbs, their
saloon business on that day was gone, and
when an effort was made to close saloons, the
keepers by compromise could have closed
all saloons, but it would not do to let them
have the credit of good work, and attempt
ed to enforce it by law which became dead
letter In regard to this subject We copy an
article from Forneys Progress, The Perma-
nent Building, of the Centennial was opened
by the citizens as Permanent Exhibition,
bat, being so far from the great business CEN
tiers, it has not been self supporting, and must
be closed unless opened on Sundays. 1t says
THE Philadelphia Sabbath Alliance, just at
the moment when all true citizens are strain
ing every nerve to save their city from the
disgrace of declaring itself unable to sustain
the Permanent Exhibition, enters the contest
with their silly and altogether illogical demand
for Sunday closing. They will have the palace
torn down rather than that the people who
built and own it be allowed to enjoy their
property on the only day which masses of
them can call their own. So blinded are these
gentlemen by their fanaticism that they pre-
tend to act with the concurrence and appro-
baton of an overwhelming ma jority of our
community and | do them the justice to
think they are honest in their belief But
they are as mistaken in this detail as they are
in the very foundation of their opposition to
freedom of conscience, and that they fail to
see their mistake is another proof of the
darkness in which they grope. If they have
majority of the people with them how
comes it that the Geological Garden has more
visitors on Sunday than ON any other day of
the week, and that the city railroads leading
to the Park and suburbs find extra cars i'm
perative ON Sunday To close the exhibition
Sunday alone can sufficient attendance be re-
lied upon to make the enterprise self-sustain-
ing. The Geological Garden owes it's rank as
the most complete establishment of the kind
in the country solely to Sunday opening
Read its reports, and you will see that through
out it's whole existence the number Of visitors
on Sunday has been greater than on any other
day" These Inconsistencies only add to =.
he mass of unbelievers by repelling men )
With their silly and untenable notions of the ::
Sabbath.
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