The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-20
sUEDBY OBSERVANCE.

America is q democratic country,
but American society would be queer,
to cay the least, if pure democracy
wers prscticsd and permitted By
everybody. For instance, Senator
Rayard holds that il is democratic for
man to eat, and drink what, when
and where be pleases; that Is to say,
il be wants whisky, no law should
prevent him from drinking it at any
and all times when be can obtain it.
Different ideas Sc to the rights OF in
dividuais and Of the community, and
it is seldom that any two agree as TO
what would be purely democratic,
when their respective proper persons
are involved in the application of a
rule. The nearest that American
society comes TO agreeing upon any
OF matter in which individuals and
the whole are interested, is that Sun
day should be- properly observed"
In a body the public-ChT;stian, Jew
and Bob IpgersoII-goes SO far. and
then The scattering begins. and the
differences OF opinion are more
numerous than are the sects and |
classes. What constitutes The proper
observance OF the Sabbath is a matter
that it has been difficult to determine
or agree upon. There is divine com.
mand for keeping it holy, and the
same authority says it is lawful to
heal the sick on the Sabbath, and "to
straightway pull" out the OK or ass
that has fallen into pit. The scrip.
lures sanction the performance CT
necessary labor on the Sabbath, and
civil lass have interpreted this to
mean yariously in various countries,
as the churches in difieTen! countries
differently interpret the remembering 4
of the day snd the keeping Of it hoiy.
In Catholic Italy, France, Spain and
other lands. the church simply re-
quires ibst mass and after
noon service be attended, while {
the rest of the day may
be passed in bilarity, such as q
dancing, playing. drinking and s
kindred sports. In Germany the {
church services must be attended,
but it is thereafter proper to visit coll = =
,eTts ard beer gardens, and indulge f,
n ali manner of frivolous worldly
Sunday is q holiday il o
England, devoted more 10 play than y
hurch-going, to fsasting and quiet
ollIty rather than religious obsorv II
noes. In America, the only civilized St
ountry where the church cannot "
Interfere, the Sunday observance =,
ONES nearer to the divine iule than n
q any other land. This, of course, ldt
oes not apply to the frontier regions fc
7here society is crude, nor TO mining
amps, where the refining influences d
I religion and the higher civilization 81
re held somewhat in allegiance; but "
here the social, literary. and reli-
ious culture Of the age makes itself -
lit, there will De found q near ap- r.
roach to the Sabbath which Christ IL
e6ned. The violators OF that Sab $
ath are breakers Of the civil SIS 3
ell as the moral Law, snd come of
nder the condemnation of public sit
oinion. individuals differ as to nc
hat Is necessary labor. There fr
re some strict Sabbstarisus
no would suppress the Sunday an
sTspaper, and others who would re su
se to read Monday paper because ne
e editors, reporters, printers and of
worked on Sunday to pre-. N
IRE it. These. however, are in tae m
significant 10 noEiiy, whose ergu-
ents and reasoning sTenot regarded
sound by the masses on religious bo
physiological grounds. Others are tt
.rrow in their views as to what conf ev