Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-12

safety. He Fobjected to cards 1st, because they have "a bad name; 2d, they have an r-mastering fascination; Sd, they are gamblers tools; 4th, every saloon keeper likes to see Christians play cards; 9th, they are found in liquor saloons 9th, to say that they can be played without stakes is wrong in theory and practice; 7th, they have been the ruin of thousands; Sth. the player is taught gambling 9th, they encourage idleness and dissipation 10th, they are played by too many who are outside of the church; 11th and 12th, they lead to betting and are associated with other vices. There
 are cold blooded people in the church who
 might not be injured, but there were many whose impulses would surely lead them
 astray by indulging.
 Young men were exhorted to refuse to play cards, even though ridiculed by MT. and Mrs.
 Society, whose ridicule or pity were incense quential and not worth minding.
 The argument against the abolishment of the Sunday laws was much the most able part of the discourse. Briefly, if it is right | to walk in the fields on Sunday, it is right to ride. Though the saint may have his own horse. the stnaer will often have to hire. If he may ride In carriage, he may go on steam ! car excursion. So with the little boat, owned | by one saint. The sinner must perhaps hire. I If he may hire small boat, he and others ! may hire steamboat and there will be no end Of breaking down wholesome rules. The | | spiritual welfare and rest from daily toll. Not day to be kept by man for the days sake, but day for the moral and mental | good of man. Those who want Sunday laws abolished are those for whom the laws are I most beneficial. The law is in the interest
 of store keepers. People spend much money 1 for dress on Saturday on account of the fact that Sunday is day set apart for rest from labor. Abolish the law and vast traffic in Sunday raiment would cease. So the better
 Sunday dinner would fail and thus reduce
 trade. Degrade Sunday to the level of other days and you legislate at the expense of many industries.
 no day of rest for workers. The capitalist \ and manufacturer would demand that work | be done on that day, and the workingman
 must labor seven days for six days income or their equivalent. Four evils would follow the repeal asked for by the infidels 1. the
 lowering of wages ?, more hours of work
 would be demanded; 3, the sacred day would not be for recreation, but for toil; 4, it would be day of toll with no more pay for 1 the whole than was earned in six days To the argument that legislation could fix that matter, the speaker replied that such would
 be class legislation, which is repugnant to American institutions. To abolish Sunday would be to do violence to nature As it is
 now, every man can wipe from his brow the l gr1me of toll once week and for twenty-foul 1 hours be free-free to worship-free to be | his own master.
 The preacher said the cry for repeal of the
 Sunday law came from foreigners who said
 they had no interest in the American Sunday.
 He said: Eff you advise them to go to Europe where they need have no Sunday, they will not go. To do what they ask would l degrade American labor to be like that of
 Europe. Infdelity is at the bottom of this demand for repeal, which would be an in
 jury to society The laws here have no church
 and State relationship as charged. The out l cry against Puritanism is as senseless as l would be claim that it would be better to
 have had no Father of his country than that George Washington should be honored who
 had done much to injure the interests ot
 horticulture by cutting down 8 valuable l cherry tree.