The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-03-16

sweeter, stronger and purer manhood are to be brought
To bear upon the whule community.
that life 10 the city and life In the country, life In an
agricultural community and life In q commercial com.
munlty, arc 50 Different that
THE SABBATH MUST BIZ pIrrEEEsr.
You cannot mako them alike. They are not
alike. Things are permissible In the city which, wonld
set o man nguinst tho wall In the country. There ia .
certain qnietude and rest In the country which you
never could lnfuse into the crowded city. The Sabbath
In OH agricultural community which Is relatively low.
toned (nr the producers of raw material always are at
carries men up; tho production of mere raw material
Keeps men down.. caa never be the Sabbath OF q COM
munity that Is higher up. In the nature Of things,
therefore. one man will be breaking another mans
Bread Is the staf Of life: in Russia It Is brown bread;
In America Is white bread; but In either case. though
the bread differs, It Is bread; and It gives nourishnent
that restores the wasted organs and tissues.
and It is my day. 1t Is not tho priests day, nor 10
It the day Of the church. 1t belongs to the common
people: 1t belongs to everybody. 1t belongs :" socie'
y. There WAS o time when the church owned tho B.
Bile, and d0led 1t ont through the voice OF the preacher;
and 1t was o grand and O brave fight that brought men
back to their right which !nhcred In the Bible. For q
long time The communion Of the Lords supper be.
longed to the church. We are doing ms much as We
can-and not without some successful bring 1t back.
priest or no priest, minister or no minister. The churh
ray have It but 60 may every family In the land
have II that wants - 1t belongs to men 40 men-n9t
IS members Of the church.
WHAT THE sABBkrH HAS BEEN.
The Sabbath day has been IN q large extent the Sun.
regulations and methods for It's administration; but 1t
belongs u the human family; and when once men are
Intelligent In regard to Its purposes and uses, every
body will BE- At liberty, according to his circumstance,
day as best beseems him, and not according to any re.
corded line or method Of keeping It. Liberty t0 keep
Sunday according to the dictates OF ansIs own !Id%ens
llerty Of corscience-Pan was = st'ckler Tor mat; 20
was Luther and 60 was Calvin. good man.
"0ne man esteemeth one day above another; an.
other e.teemeth every day alike. Let every man be
persuaded in his own mind And,
"Stand on your own judgment your ewn con.
science"
lie that r~egasdeth the day, r~eesrde.h 1t unto the
Lord; and ho that reRardeth not the day, TO the Lord
be doth not regard 1t"
That Is the apostles doctrine-a doctrine Of individual
liberty, which Is The same doctrine that We have In re.
gard to tho Bible.
FOR TIE foos AND NOT EoR THE RICH.
In the city. hotels, that bid fair to superseds fimi.
lies. must fe, d their crowds on Sunday; and no way has
been invented, as yet, Of satisfying usu'me by what
must run. Hospital, must 90 on. Tho means Of life
must 20 On. The habits Of saci,ty must 90 on. The
poverty III men max, II impossible that they should
supply themselves oven one day In advance with pro
Vl4tUDS u hE5iIuUulvub uHuu vi lOtSELJ W uUt
carry enough money in It for two days; and every
day men must bny or fast, And when men who roll
10 riches undertake to or''ain n Sabbath that will 6p.
press the poor and the needy, they tread sunday under
foot, and make 1t on instrument Of tyranny. There
was q time when the man with the withcred hand. II
he had consulted all the elders and pious men OF the
nation about II, would not have dared t" hold 1t out IN
Sunday but the Lord Of the Sabbath said. 'Stretch
firth thine hand" and tho Lord Of the sabbath says
to ten Thousand poor men to-day. "Stretch forth thine
| hand: tn, 70 Is need to buy, therc 10 need to work
therefore, stretch firth thine hand" The Sabbath wai
nude for the poor and needy: not for tho luxurious
and rich alone.
THE MEN WHO STAND OUTSIDE.
I n%otice-and with No particular apprehension or dis
pleasure. rs I 20 t" church, great many carriages
and coaches standing along the street, especially In
summer, waiting for the services to cover. lcannol
help thinking Of what Horace Greeley once said when
arnund the old Brick C~hnrch-what - now the
" Times" building he saw the drivers kicking theii
feet on the ,ront boards during tho service. Said be
" | think the time will come when the owners Of these
carriages will stand outsidr, and tho drivers will BE-
inside" always think Of the men that have to stay
outside and take care Of the l,or.es. Who breaches to
tn, uf Where TO they go to churchs Very likely they
have church"s. 1t is "nly once o day that they come
In carriages here! and no doubt PROVISION Is nude fol
them. But when | lind N n allie 20 own . pair oil
horses, and tn rOll n church ON their pleasant seats
sign ~ peti; Ions against running strcct-cars-tho poor
mans curriage-on Sunday. | say to myself, These are
men tbaihre under the dominion 0f snperstltion. They
| have simply 3 hereditary nOt!Un that Sunday ought "
be kept" In villages where no such want exists they
are drsirous Of shutting the city ratlr0ad-the pool
mans convenience; and they ride " church themseire:
In Carriages. thus
VIOLATING SUNDAY WITH A PAIR OF HORSES.
Now, l am neither In favor Of railroads In tho sb.
stracL nor mn 1 opposed to them: but II they will take
the workingman back 10 bis family more emily, u
they will take children home to their pasent', II they
| will give men an opportunity u cOlne q long distnhc,
to the church Of their b. art, am in favor OF them
| and II other men take them fr other purposes l do
not care. am In favor OF that which works for thu
poor and the ne. dy and for the men who are ready t.
perish. Sunday that does NOT take care OF the poor
| and the needy Is not Gods Sabbath; II Is the artificial
Sunday o; tho church, Or Of q supcrstiious com
munity.
well It may be asked, would you on the same
ground tolerut. popular nmusrmeRts on Sunday" No
[ would not. I would discountennnce BY every
means that was just md honorable Sabbath day
paradcs, and even military parAdrs that 90 the grave o
u OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES play Ing dolefnl mnsic until they
have got hun under ground, nLd Then turn on theil
heels md come luck with joyful a rains, as much rs t.
Say, " That follow l., out vi the way. l never hear one
o.: those military bands coming back In that way thai
/ do MT pity tho man who is bcn~nth the turf. Pa
radcs, thcnters. races, and every otbrr form Of MERE
amusement and rleasur- on the Sabbath day, are II
violation OF that d y. They are, on the whole, inimica
TO the wants Of the great mass OF the common PEG
pic. That is the rra san why | am opposed to them
They do nU good and they do BARN.. :,
hold that there 10 M class OF people In this world
that are 50 much Interested In the maintenance NJ the
Bible as The gr, st under class Of society. There's M
uther book that has in 1t such stirring truths Vi bu
mainly, or such rigorous doctrines concerning tn.
the dignity Of men, without rrgarrl To their cir
cumstancrs. as that Book. When, therefore, pom
mechanics, laboring men, or those who FRS thei
bOastful advocates, make q slur again.t the Bible, 1t 4
~ II o man, In the interest VI rerublicanism, should
make n slnr against the Consli: ution Of the Unitct
States Here Is the Book l. t enbalms those tlling'
that have been wrought by blood; aud II there 10 evel
t. b. liberty, 1t is to come along tho The lines which
are laid down In the Word vi God. So for the com
mon u, Ople's sake ! advocate the Bible, not as q super
.ritious book that follows theories. but as ~ book tho,
Is adapted ~ practical life.
II there be- ane thing thatfs necessary for thewclf.re
Of the community, II Is that the under class, thOss tha'
labn:, Dung mcn who are away FROM home, every
where throughout the comuunity-it Is that they
should have
ONE DAT IN THE WEEK FOR SELF INSTRUCTION.,
ore day for larger thought one day In which their i'm
~aginalion can soar. one day In which they shall think
"Whut am II Which way am I going! one day in which
they can take their household BY tho hand AID rse
one step upward along the line of . better life, az
| one day In which they shall be permitted " look
! over the horizon and zee In the eternal future those
silent serial waves that best from that other land
uDou this, 9 undlrss and stnrmlsss.
There are no infuoncrs brought to bear upon men
Il chat Mas