Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-15


get themselves eaten up by cannibals. We
pine for the remedy for this gigantic evil,
which is yet locked in the breast of the
professor
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Sunday
Budget gives the following amusing &C.
count of "a sudden conversion Mr..
Charles R. Train, some time attorney gen
eral of this ancient commonwealth, tells
of an incident that happened in his fathers
church III birmingham, "a many years
ago" 1t seems that his father, Baptist
minister, had long wanted instrumental
music in his church, but had been opposed
by several prominent members of his con-
gregation, notably by Mr.. Ben Haven,
near neighbor and friend, who loved the
old ways and was set against innovations.
But at last the pastor, who was one of the
''quisl lind" and apt to carry his point,
GO man into the church who brought
WI nm his bass VOL, prepared to accom-
r5ay the singing of the congregation. Old
Mr. Haven walked into the church and took
ais seat in the front row of pews, putting
his hat, as was customary with those who
sat in the higher seats in the synagogue,
upon the communion table. The open
ing prayer was over, and the first hymn
given out, when the strains OF the VOL
sounded through the church. Amazed,
Mr.. Haven rose in his place, gave one look
up into the gallery where the offending
musician was bending to his work, seized
hat, and marched down the broad aisle in
high dudgeon. Getting outside he tried
to put on the hat, but found that by mis-
take he had taken one several sizes too
small for him; in fact, boys hat. This
gave him pause. He stopped, reflected,
made up his mind that he was wrong, and
thet this was direct sign from heaven to
prove it to him. So he walked meekly
back up the aisle, restored the hat to the
communion table, took his seat, and never
again opposed instrumental music in the
house of God. About the most sudden
case of conversion on record.-"CGWSerie,"
in the Boston Sunday Budget.
The proper observance of the Sabbath
is enioiued by divine commandment. The
Sabbath was made for man, not man for
the Sabbath. In the divine economy, a
proper rest for man and beast is required,
both for mental and physical health. The
following testimonies and experiences, not
of the clergy, but OF statesmen, and men
of wide reputation in legal, medical, lit
erary and commercial life, bearing on
subject attracting considerable
attention at the present time, and
cannot surely be uninteresting to the
many readers of the Timely Topics"
column, and may prove wholesomely in
structive and admonitory:
Eff Sunday had not been observed as a
day of rest during the last three centuries,
have not the smallest doubt that we
should have been at this moment a poorer
and less civilized people than we are."-
Lord MdcdNLGy.
''There is no religion without worship,o or
no worship without the Sabbath" Count
MontGlem6er.
''The more faithfully apply myself to
the duties of the Lords day, the more
happy and successful is my business dur
ing the week.''-Sir hdtthelC Hale.
"A corruption of morals usually follows
a proclamation of the Sabbath. ''-BIGck-
stone.
THE Sabbath as a political institution
is of inestimable value, independently of
its claim to divine authority. "-Adama
Smith.
SUNDAY is day of account, and a can
did account every seventh day is the best
preparation for the great day Of account"
Lord KGmeS.
II can truly declare that to me the Sab
bath has been invaluable" William Wil6-
enforce.
''Give the world half of Sunday, and you
will find religion has no stronghold of the
other."-Sir Walter Scott.
''Where there is no Christian Sabbath
there is no Christian morality; and with
out this, free institutions cannot be sus-
tanned. Justice Mclean.
THE longer live the more highly do 1
estimate the Christian Sabbath, and the
more grateful do 1 feel toward those who
impressed its Importance on the COM
munity.''-Daniel Webster.
In general order, issued Nov. Is, 1862,
President Lincoln commanded that "Sun-
day labor in the army and navy be reduced
| to the measure of strict necessity. The
discipline and character of the national
forces should not suffer, nor the cause they
| defend be imperiled by the PROCLAMATION of
the day OF name of the Most High"
Attorney General Bates of the cabinet of
Mr.. Lincoln, wrote: THE religious charac-
ter of an institution so ancient, so sacred,
so lawful and so necessary to the peace,
the comfort and the responsibility of soci-
ETY., ought alone to be sufficient for its pro-
lection; but that failing, surely the laws of
the land made for its account ought to be
! as strictly enforced as the laws
for the protection of person and
property. If the Sunday laws be
elected or despised, the laws of person