Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-10

from this chosen method of OBJ
serving or enjoying the day.
Rev. DR.. Henry G. Potter takes the
view that the confounding of Sunday as
day of rest with Sunday as
day of pleasure, travel or labor will
bring to the laboring population
burden they are unable to bear, and he
assumes that this phase of the matter is
the problem of all others that awaits solu-
ton.
Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby, with his usual
propensity to jump at conclusions, pro-
claims that "the Sunday laws should be
most strictly observed, and that it is for
the interest of the whole community to
form united public opinion against open
stores and mental labor on the day of pub
lie rest.'
Rev. DR.. VIM. M. Taylor is not sanguine
about the power of legislative enactment.
In his judgement it ought to be iterated
and reiterated that ''the Sabbath among
US is to be conserved, not by legal enact
ment, but by the character, example, in
fuence and evangelistic activity of the
church members of the land"
Rev. DIR. o. H. Tiffany says he is not
surprised by occasional evidence of Sun
duy license, but still he is not dismayed,
and inclines to a hopeful view for the flu
ture.
Rev. DR.. VIM. Ormiston comedies that
pure air and social fellowship are human
necessities, but still is deeply grieved and
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fathers is practically doomed and is des-
tined to be swept away.
Rev. DIR. Thomas Armitage speaks like
the man of comprehension he is, submit
ting that the solution of the problem
is vested in the dual character of
our Sabbath, in its civil and
religious bearings. The state has recog-
nized the day by law as civil institution
for the social, moral and political blessing
OF the commonwealth. 1t is secure on the
basis of economic principles. Its relig-
ious charater is inseperabIy united with it's
civil privileges. he observance of Sun
day as day of religious worship must be
left to moral suasion, to the healthy ex-
ample and. practice of religious men.
Reform by this process is
slow but sure, and the Christian Sabbath
Is not lost because some of its present as
poets are not of Puritan strictness. The
Sabbath is retained in American life. and
the mutual action of legal and moral infiu-
ences will retain its essential features for
all time
In the foregoing is presented a view
of the working of different
minds, all tending, with one excep-
ton, to the same general corclu-
sion, and it may be remarked that these
views are valuable. This is peculiarly
nation of freemen, and with the civil re-
spect now and always paid to the Sabbath
there is no danger that its observance both
as day of physical rest and spiritual
edification will ever be abandoned. The
Sabbath of the forefathers, if it may be so
termed, IS not the Sabbath of to-day, any
more than are the old blue laws of a re-
mote period the living enforced statutes of
this period. There is no tendency in the
direction of taking away from the Sab
bath its character as a day of rest.
AS to its spiritual observance,
it is not in the province of civil law to di-
rect or control that, and to attempt to do
so is repugnant to the genius of civil and
religious liberty, on which is founded the
welfare of nations. The republic has not
lapsed into so low moral state that the
conscience of its people may not be trusted
upon this matter.