Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-16
HOW SHALL WE KEEP THE
SABBATH Days
Certain Things Must Be Done,
and Certain Things Need Not
Be Done ON That Day.

BE Done on That Day.
Correspondence Of the Register.
There are two great principles collid-
ing evermore in the moral and social or
ganization Of man.
In the full and perfect exercise OF the
first principle, the principle OF right,
was man created. The other principle
did not exist at that time. the principle
OF wrong. but by permission, or some
way unknown to us, made its first as
sault upon the principle Of right soon
after our first parents appeared in the
Garden Of Eden.
The first principle, the principle oil
right, was established by the Supreme
Creator himself, and was therefore per-
feet and pure and untainted in any way
whatever. Man was made in the full
and perfect enjoyment of the first Prin-
ciple OF right, and was designed by his
Creator to live for ever in the exercise
of that right. Man fell, and great was
his fall to all his generations. The SER
pent, the devil, entered the holy gar
den and seduced man from the first
principle, and from that fatal hour,
through all ages down to n day, have
these two great and first principles OF
our nature been engaged for the mas
terry over each other.
What is the difference between these
two great principles on manP Let Us
see.
The first principle was created by God
himself, and implanted in man Tor him
to act on an2 live under, as he should
be directed by such means OF intorma.
ton or knowledge as the Creator would
ordain. God, being the direct author
of the first principle, then it logically
follows that this is the principle, and no
other, under which We are TO live and
act. God never created anything wrong,
but everything has been good and pure
and holy that came from his hands.
On the first great principle rests our
holy Christianity and all the benetiClent
results realized by man from it. 1t IS
founded on truth, on q living practical
faith in God, and charity is its cap
stone.
1t Is because Of the success OF this
principle in our world over the second
principle, wrong, that our eyes are per-
mitted to see, and our minds and hearts
to comprehend and feel the wonderful
things that are constantly developing
themselves before and around us.
Would we have our present system oil
civilization if it was not founded on the
first principle? Suppose We take away
the first principle and adopt the second,
where will it lead US to? l~ntidelity,
p~aganism under all of it's most hideOus
forms and brutal and degrading intin.
ences, all these, the natural offspring Of
the second principle, would take the
places of truth, faith, charity, on which
our present civilization is founded. We
would have no day Of sacred rest, or
Sabbath day. The second principle is
conditionally opposed to the ~sacredness
of the Sabbath day. Ii would blot 1t
out OF the calendar at once, II 1t was
allowed to do so. God created the Sab
bath day. It's observance by us, as de.
scribed in the commandment, Is y part
of the duty We are required to perform
towards God, under the first principle.
We are commanded to keep the Sab
bath day holy unto the Lord. God has
created the Sabbath, and it is therefore
founded on the first great principle
right. II we violate the Sabbath we are
no longer followers of the first principle,
but of the second-wrong. There Is no
middle ground here. There are but
two principles at work in our nature,
right and wrong. We are always under
the lead OF one or the other Of these
two. Our lives reflect them unmistak-
ably.
The execution OF certain things, or
duties, on the Sabbath day, is, in the
organization OF our society, absolutely
unavoidable. In our mills and factories
we have to keep up constant fires, while
running, and their running time neces-
sarily takes in the Sabbath. Very little
work could or would be done il the fires
in the furnaces lad TO be extinguIshed
every Saturday night, and not lit up be
fore Monday morning. No glass could
be manufactured at all under this idea,
or rule. Many good Christian men have
to work under such arrangements, and
in my judgment, do not commit sin by
doing so. Such q man is not a Sabbath
breaker, willingly, ii at all. Under the
Jewish law, it was q sin to heal the sick
on the Sabbath day. But the great
physician pronounced that law uRcon-
| stitutional and void. There are many
things we can dispense with on the Sab
bath day, which are now allowed in
plain violation oil the statutes. Livery
stables, barber shops, bakeries, meat
| shops, saloons, wholesale drug stores,
excursions, whether by rail or water, for
pleasure, railroad trains, except through
trains, street cars, tobacco shops, and
any employment that does not minister
30 the necessities OF man, all OF these
should be abated at once.
The present move in Wheeling, by
what is known as "the law and order
movement" will not amount TO much,
because the parties engaged IN 1t are
themselves disbelievers in the holy Oh
seryance Of the Sabbath day. 1t Is con-
| ceived in spite by a class Of men who
violate the Sabbath as regular as il
comes round, and they cannot expect TO
enlist the sympathy and help OF that
better class of our people who are
| from principle and practice opposed to
the desecration OF the Sabbath. 1t
would be we'll for our city if these law
and order men," as they call themselves,
were sincere IN their conduct in this
movement. Until they come out and
show their colors by their acts, those OF
q citizens who are loyal to the Sab.
bath will look with distrust and doubt
| on their movement and effort to enforce
the Sabbath laws. We have an element
in our population that is opposed to the
religious keeping Of the Sabbath, and
look upon it simply as a day OF recrea-