The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-11-30
SUNDAY. OasERYAN;Ce.

SUNDAY. ORsERYANCe
There VA I'm amusing discussion
q one II the Minneapolis churches the
other evening upon the question Of
Sunday Observance. The Sunday news.
paper, - asual, came in for = large
share Of cendemnatt ion. The preacher
let the cat out Of tile bag when 10 said
that - man fresl. from the newspaper
ID not 20 we'll lifted for the sermon Is
he would. b had hs been reading his
bible" Aid thts il about where every
discussion OF the kind brings up. The
preacher wants the people 10 give one
day to:hin. - and hear him, and keep
Mp tntereet enough to support him.
We honestly believe that this il the
secret Of the whole Sunday movement.
The preachers keep ssit.ting, it aud
they ws''t' laws to compel people 70
suspend al business AID amusements
and 60 and lear them.
Il vas said 1t thb'Ninntapolis meet
ing that It wxs better for news Loys to
g hungry than to make money selling
Sunday papers, and that the extreme
severity Of the Puritans In regard to
sunday vas preferable to tie present
'ax'ty In tue matter Of Sunday observ-
ance.
The Paritxns fined men for rot At
tending church and forbid benedicts to
kiss their wives On Sunday. II the
clergy '.sd tho power they would renew
the Puritan regime in every State.
That there il no divine command or
requirement concerning Sunday, every
intelligent clergyman and church
msmbsr knows. The sabbath referred
to in the Ten Commandments is the
Jewish Sabbath. or our saturday. Yet
the clergy and the church, people 70 on
violating, this divine co,nmaudnert ~
cOslly - the worst unl,+lipver, and en-
drav"r to make people believe that
Sunday u holy day and that it is 50
BY divine command.
II the commonwealth should declare
that One days rest in every seven is
aecessaty to tic we'll icing VI the peo-
pie. ws think that business, so fur as
possible. should be suspended on that
day. But II the State does % on rel;q-
ioas grounds, and attempts to say how
the people shall observe the day, we
think the State ought to be snubbed
and the law disregarded. There is y
higher law, and Christ declared what it
was - far ~ Il related to the. Sabbath,
When he said that 1.-THE Sabbath vas
made for man." and not man for the
Sabbath. Each individual is to choose
tor himself how he will observe any
holiday. ::
The government Of tic United States
- secular government and any law
intended to enforce Sabbath observ-
a"ce, or any other religious OBJ ,ervance,
10 clearly unconstitutional And SO
any State law to enforce any religious
observance il IN conflict with the whole
spirit and genius of our government.
Down with this everlasting, unceas.
ing demand 1T the religious sects to
have their ''nostrums,'' rs Mrs. Part
ington called them. enforced by law
Let them swallow and enjoy their va.
rious religious patent yen edirs to
their hearts, and stomaci,s' content,
but they t'ave 10 right. either divine or
human. to legislste them into others.
A D1s71NG UlSHKD PHYSICIAN GRE
Ma TED.
WAsnlSoroN, Pa. Nov. 27.-The
fifteenth cremation at the l.emoine
crematory occurred to day. The body
was that Ut pr. Lorenzo ri,epOrt, Il ~.
tired physician NJ Allegheny City, aged
Is years. He Was burn in Germany.
took Part il the revOluti. n of lS4S, and
was forced to exile with Carl Schu,z
and other prominent persons in 1866.
lie has advocated cremation for many
years, and requested in lis will that
his body sh",..d he burned. The body
was placed in the retort ut II 80 Il. M,
aud tie Incarceration was completed at
2 O'Clock. The ashes will TX. taken out
Tomorrow and forwarded to friends.
About twenty-five persons were pres
We notice by Chicago paper that
cremation and vaporizaticn of bodies
are coming into favor in that city. 1t
will probably: come into general use
some day for sanitary and other reas-
ons. There is really no more sense i,
barying the body than there is IN care
fully depositing in the ground all the
hair. whiskefs, finger nails, toe nails,
etc., which are given Oft during u life
ti'noin the bt'dy.
One writer says that tile notion Of
literal resurrection tends to II AXE the
people cling to the old custom of burr.
al. But few people, except the very
ignorant, HOW believe in u literal res.
direction Ut the body. As a Kansas
Methodist preacher demonstrated some
years ago, if the actual body is to I've
raised aid occupied again, all the par.
ticles which composed it during say 10
years. would have to he gathered to-
geti'er and = man would weigh ton or
two in the New Jerusalem. Besides.
the same atoms are often used in sew
er*l bodies aud there will lie IL conflict
~ to which >xxiy shall take them. No.,
this literal resurrection nonsense 10
dying out. Why. even Paul assured
the people Of his day that it was raised
= spiritual" body and not Il natural
body, just what the Spirit"alists claim
in our day. Bit an ignorant and ma.
teriaitstic church las for centuries in
sisted on a literal resurrection, which,
Is not the. worst of the utterly irra-
tiomal, unnat ural and silly doctrines
taught by Orthodoxy.