The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-25
Translated from the Freie Presse April 18TH.
SUNDAY DEVO1IONS.

an EXQUISITE dinner. 1t always was day OF
ioy, of comfort and rest. Every one who Is
yoked to his work during the week feels like
the horse relieved of its harness, which runs
neighing over the meadow.
But then comes class of mankind (?) who
stint every 10y, who wish to enchain in ignOm-
nous letters the free will of man, and to make
us hate the day that we need for life.
These same people who were brought up IN
darkness and superstition will demonstrate
with us that Sunday" is a day instituted by
"their God" and of course he is the God OF
all, as day of fasting and prayer. on which
no one must enjoy himself, on which he can
not be as free as on weekdays, on which he
must do nothing in any shape, day which is
to him day Of languor and uncomfortable
ness.
What do these people know of Sunday?
They utter an untruth when they claim it is
day Instituted by God. We will prove the
contrary. Thou shalt keep holy the Sabbath
day." is a law constituted by Moses, another
law by the same religious founder reads: ''Six
days Shalt thou labor, the seventh day is the
Lords S, on this day shalt thou rest" These
two laws have absolute reference to the Sab
bath, the Saturday, or "SchabeS" of the Jews,
the day which has been kept since the days OF
Moses to the present according to devine law
as the day OF worship.
II the Sunday saints wish to claim antiquity
for their Sunday celebration they must date
back to the laws of Moses, and then they will
have to proclaim Saturday as the day OF rest.
their Sunday has not been instituted by
founder of religion and much less by any God.
Considering Jesus of Nazareth bona tde
historical character, for we have no more posi-
tive proof for his existence, than We have tor
the existence Of Brahma or Buddha, then the
history of his life shows and specially his last
days that he observed the Mosaic laws and
consequently kept holy the Sabbath day, but
he always protested against the too strict en-
forcement with all energy, which is proven by
his parable of the ass and the we'll
Christ was lew and as such he celebrated
the Saturday as day of rest. What right
have Christians who are nothing else but re-
formed Jews, to slight and condemn the Sab
| bath day, and instead claim the first day of
| the week as the day of rest.
The first centuries of Christian chronology
| were chaos of confusion, disorder and per-
secution of the most hideous atrocities. What
| day really was taken or considered as the
| Lords Day, or celebrated as such, is unknown.
| Only in the fourth century the Roman empe-
ror Constantine elevated Sunday "Dies Soils"
to the legal holiday.
Now, who was this man to whom Christian
| ity is indebted for its Sunday and its power?
Let us keep strictly to history, this incorrup-
tible Judge Of the world, which rewards and
Furnishes to all eternity.
The Roman emperor Constantine was the
greatest monster ever covered by human
form. He was a mixture of Heather and
Christian; he prayed to Apollo, the god of the
sun, and covered his affairs with sacrifices. He
spread the belief that he had seen this god
| Apollo with his own eyes, after he finished,
in A. d., 344, the building of the city of Con-
stantinople, and that he built it in consequence
of revelation from said godhead. On the
18th of May, eight days after laying the foun-
dation of the future city, he got Valens to cast
his horoscope. In the same year he pub
lished two edicts, to which reference is
hereby made for the benefit of those who do
not know Of them, the first was the observa-
ton of the ''Dies Solis," the day of the sun,
consequently not the Lords day, and the sec
ond contained the order to, in all doubtful
cases call on the "Aruspices or sooth-sayers
tor information" who knew the future by the
| flights of birds, etc.
In the year 3I5, he had medal cast with
the inscription "Solis Invicto Comiti" "To
the invncible companion of the sum-" by
which he meant himself. Another medal had
the god 'Anubis" on one side and his own
bust on the other. Constantine's conversion
to Christianity was accomplished by the Christ
ian bishop Eusebius, because he promised this
monster of depraviy forgiveness of his sins,
and the following are the sins to which we are
indebted for our Sunday.
Constantine murdered with his own hands
his own son; while his hands were still reek-
ing with this blood he presided over the
church council at "Nicaea," where out Of
the and then thirty-two gospels the new existing
four were chosen and were made the begin
ming of the now new testament.
Already before the death of his own child
he murdered his wife's father Macmillan, also
the husband Of his sister Anastasa,
Bassianus, also his nephew. son hf his sister
Constantine this is in itself good index of
sin, but it does not even contain the worst
He put his wife, Fausta, in bath of boiling
water, he murdered his best friend as we'll as
his brother-in-aw.
1t is shuddering to read of such atrocity.
But the crowning of disgust shows itself
when christian bishop acts as sycophant to
such monster.
Eusebins writes, "Life of Constantine, book
3, chapter q. medal was cast to comment
crate and perpetuate the memory of this saint,
one side contains the bust of this pious man
with band around his head, the other side
showed him sitting in and driving a chariot
while hand was stretching from heaven to
receive him.
Now, heaven that receives such creatures