Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-18
TIE SUNDAY QUESTION.
DThe sabbath Was Made for NIan"A Min
lster's Views.

To the Gazette.
In the midst of so much that is be-
ing said about the Saloons and the
sabbath the enforcement of the
Sunday law etc, it may be no more
than proper fer one of the pastors of
our city to say something. And what
| say, will be very largely for the con-
sideration OF the saloon men.
First admit the justice of your
Plea that IL you are compelled to shut
up, that other business houses should
be made to close UP -also.
The same plea, or law, that would
allow your neighbor 10 keep open his
livery stable, will hold equally good in
your plea to keep open saloons on the
Sabbath. To do otherwise is to dis
criminate between man and man;
between your business and that of
another man.
But will you allow me TO ask your
attention to the following facts? The
Sabbath was made for man. Ny
right in the Sabbath day is a right to
which | am born 1t is what . we
call natural right" like life, liberty
and the pursuit of happines, y
Now, this right no man
can abridge or take from me.
The right to the rest of the seventh
day is so comprehensive, and ALIEN
bracing, that my son and my daugh-
ter, and manservaQt and maidservant,
and my cattle, and\the stranger with
in my gates are to\ share with me in
common the immunities of the day.
The horse that plows my field or draws
my buggy has the SAME right to rest
on the seventh day that lie has to
drink the water of the brook, or to eat
the grass that grows. ! have no more
right to harness him on the Sabbath
day, for the ordinary work of the
week, than | have to deny him his
drink or to withhold his food.
How much better Is a man than an
OK? by so much as the intelligent
creature is better than the dumb
brute. BY so much as the thinking
man Is better than the unthinllinr
horse. And by so far is man entitled
to the sabbath above the horse. The
horse belongs TO the man, and shares
with him the Sabbath, which was
made for man. ] make this point
about the horse in support OF the pro-
osition that my right in the sabbath
Is natural right, one which ! derive
nom my Maker, and therefore cannot
be abridged or denied me by law.
ANY law which would in its opera
ton deny me or abridge my right to
the Sabbath must be in the very ma
ture of the case wrong.
In this am not contending for the
religious use Of the Sabbath, but the
just claim which have to it, the same
as my claim to life itself | call your
attention to this additional thought.
under this head, that there has been
demonstrated the fact that man can
obtain as large a result and better
from the labor of his horse that is al
lowed 10 Erest on the Sabbath day
than can be had by working him
without such rest.
why. sirs; you may have read
short time since in tile "RdH Road
age" a plea by railroad men and
managers themselves for a discontin-
uance of business on the road as far rs
possible on the Sabbath. The fact is.
u locomotive is allowed to run only so
lar at a tine, when it is switched OF
ana al ow d TO cool and to rest
The same machine, iron, steel and
strong metal though it be, will last
longer, aud do more work, and better
work, by having these intervals of
rest These men tell us that thew
MAKE this plea for discontinuance
OF sabbath labor over their roads on
,he score ot economy and the better
hea,th OF the men employed,
WIN All Difference | would ask Won
may you not after all he mistaken |
wheh you say, or when YOU think |
mat sunday Is your best day NAV |
II nor be true that proper attention to /
! man business six days in the week /
win proper rest on the Sabbath will (
)rlnga better result than the ceoseless
'treadmill' method, which knows No
iar. e''en-
1t Is one of the living questions of
ne hour, this Sabbath question. ono
nat VIII not down vt any man, Md
ing. And may ii not be after iii II
ne part OF wisdom with you To coolIy
investigate the matter, and reach tb1
olicibsion that you can make as much
lohey IN the twelve months as Won
m by working ON the Sabbath. WIN
nould there be this endless war he.
ween you and the community Ia
Inch you live? 80
iiaVlng said this much. | trust von
~ nave patience to hear me again on
Eo., ,vn j. ID. MURPHY.
foft Worth, July IS. !
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