The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-23
Sunday

"And He sah unto them, the sabpnth N wps
made for man, aud not man FOR the SAD
hah'--Mnrk H., u,
The day is first to he for bodily rest.
But you don't all need it, Thousands
sleep, eat, and indulge themselves too
much. But this is not the case with the
great majority, whom call the iorll-
nate class. Blessed are those who are
driven by poverty to invention, industry,
care, foresight and prudence. The
mass Of men are toilerS and it is II
blessing to them that one day in seven
is an absolute vacation. The steers are
invoked, the wheels cease 10 run and
the spndes are still, Men can lay
down their tools, the lash OF toll has
no dominion over them They are their
own. The resting is bencdiction and
the twilight Of satisfaction glimmerS on
them. 1t is good thing for many men
who have a chance 10 wash clean ON
Sunday. Self-respcct is essential to
manly character. Pride and praise
hold men up. Without pride of charae-
ter man viii not do right when alone
and with the praise of men he is made
self-respectng 1t makes man feel
good all the week towash clean ana
dress well on Sunday,
A man of luxury who lives in New
York in the winter, with vacation to
Florida, and spends the summer ut
the White Mountains aud Saratoga,
says the Sabbath is for rest. But he
does not know what rest is. The hard
/ lnt
day is a good ironing day for persons
who are all creased up. The keeping
of the Sabbath must be- adapted 10 the
absolute wants of men, There is no one
SUNDAY vigorously parcelcd ont at all.
In the observance OF it life is SO differ
ent in city and country, and in different
communities, that the Sabbath must be
different. One man viii be breaking
another mans Sabbath. The day be-
longs to everybody. 1t is not the priests
day, For n long time the Bible belonged
to the church. but now it is mans. So
the Sabbath-liberty of Sunday is the
same as liberty OF conscience. Every
man must stand on his own judgment.
In the city, hotels must feed crowds,
and customers won't be satisfied with
Saturday cooking, Ferries, railroads
and hospitals must run, Every day the
poor must buy or fast The rich must
not make Sunday an instrument of OPP
preston. The Lord OF the Sabbath
says to the poor man, stretch out your
hand if there is need 10 buy or work. |
see carriages in the street rs | come 10
Church. can't help thinking Of what
Horace Greeley said when looking nj
the carriage around the Old Brick
church in Park Row, with the drivers
waiting for the service TO be over. He
said; Il think the time will come when
the drivers will be inside and the own
ers will be waiting outside
Where do the drivers 90 to church?
When find men with carriages signing
petitions 10 stop the street carS-the
poor mans carriagcs--l say they are
under the dominion Of superstition |
am in favor Of cars that benefit man
and help him TO help himself would
not tolerate popular amusement on sun
day. discountenance paradeS, even
those going to buriaIs. Theaters, races
and every form of mere amu,emcnts |
oppose on Sunday, as opposed to the
general good. No class is so much in
terested in supporting the Bible rs the
great under class Of society. II they
sur at the Bible they hurt themselves.
This book is the volume Of liberty.
The day ought to be marked. 1t ought
to be the pIeasantest day of the week
1t wasn't to me- | was lively and mer-
curial, laughing at everything. ! went
TO church and heard a sermon did not
understand, was walked up with slap
on the head when | went TO sleep, and
when got home | was set down to
learn the catechism. My heart then
sank within me, for | could not memo
rize sentences Without learning it |
could have no dinner. ! have gwen
many hard knocks at Culyini,m and
catechism since then, and the origin
of them all was the deprivation OF those
Sunday dinners. When the sun went
down Sunday might've kept Saturday
might've greeted the outgoing Of Sun
day with joy. There We're never such
fine days as our Sundays in my
youth Henry lFayd Bccchcr,