News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-19
FOR SUNDAY READING.
SOBER SECOND THOUGHTS FOR A
DAY OF REST.
hescHed from Ruin-Talmage on Sunday
ObservHnce-The Formation of Char
acter-NOtes and Comments,

MR.. TA1MAGE SAYS SUNDAY OUGHT TO
BE KEPT FREE FROM sEoUIAI
| ADJUSTMENTS.
Mr.. Talmage preached on "Sabbatt
Observance" on Sunday. "Men have
found out" he said, "that they can dc
more work in six days than they can in
seven. Travellers have found that they
can get sooner to their destination by
stopping one day in seven. Fishermen
OF Newfoundland testify that they can
catch more fish in six days than they
can by working seven days. Intelligent
man and dead machinery cry out for the
Lords Day. That man gives a mort
gage to death and disease who works on
the Sabbath. Yet there is an attempt
to destroy the Sabbath day on the one
hand by liquor dealers and on the
other by secular amusements. There
are three thousand liquor dealers in
Brooklyn who are moving against the
law prohibiting the sale of liquor on
Sunday. Look at the Sixteenth Ward
of Brooklyn. In that ward there are
six churches, two public schools, and
323 liquor saloons only one of which
observes the Sunday law. In Philadel-
phia, when | lived there, a woman was
found selling molasses candy on Sun
day. The police rose up in its power
and the public declared that no moIas-
ses candy should be sold on Sunday.
She was tried and convicted, yet the
officers of the law with their hands be-
hind their back walked right past the
saloons dealing out liquor on Sunday.
thousands of pens are at work trying
to write down the Christian Sabbath.
[ am opposed to any invasion of the
holy law. Yet some men say we ought
to have grand Sunday-night concerts.
A man who went to one of them said
between the music there was dance
and trapeze performance. But I sup
pose it was sacred dance and conse-
Grated tight rope. There is an attempt
to introduce into this country the Paris
ian Sunday. If you have never seen a
Partisan Sunday you don't know what
degraded thing it is. When the Sab
bath goes down the Republic will go
down. The Sabbath came to us in the
Mayiower: When it leaves us it will
be in the ark that floats above the deluge
of destroyed nation"
THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER.
The Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of
Boston, in discourse on "The Forma-
ton of Character, said that there were
three forces that controlled men in the
of themselves. One was
their genius, or qualities that they were
born with /; the other was knowledge,
or that which they qui-ed from others
or their environment to use a modern
the last was that which
they did themselves toward building up
their il terror life. Washington had had
no advantages over those of his contem-
poraries as regarded the two first, but as
to the last he was pre-eminently distin-
guished aud stood out in history as a
man. While Washington
had latent fire he kept it in subjection,
and in all that ne did he seemed bound
by some supreme law and that law was
his conscience, which bound him to the
his God. He was a man of
strong will, very much disposed to have
his own way, but his will was always
amenable to his reason and to his better
Instincts. Character meant an organized
power, and Washington developed that,
md his life was such manifestation of
patriotism that it constrained men to
believe that there was such thing. He
lid what was so essential in the forma-
ion of characterize steered his life, he
lid not allow it to drift.
Franklin had tried to be virtuous by
making out a list of the virtues, and
when he had become an expert in one
le took up the next. But he found it
did not answer. He discovered that
character was formed like the seed in the
1ower-by development and growth. :.
hESOUED thOM RUIN
"How do you rescue young boys and
girls from habitual attendance upon
liquor saloons ?" An answer to this
question has been found by an organiza-
lion in the city of Chicago.
Mr.. G. G. Bonney, of Chicago, ex-
president of the National Law and
OrJar T,ooorro ryivao q ,,r,,,L>ar of cfort
ling facts in connection with the work
in Chicago. He said that in 1877 it was
by actual count that 80, 900
youths, none of whom were more than
nineteen years of age, and over one
thousand girls of the same age, were in
the habit of nightly attending liquor
saloons in that city for drinking and
dancing. This fact appalled, a great
many Christian people, and on the night
of the 25th of November of that year
six men and two women met in hall to
consult as to the mode to be adopted for
the suppression of this evil.
It was found that the State OF Il
linois had law that forbade the sale of
intoxicating liquors to minors on pain of
penalties and imprisonment. Political
influence, with the accompanying terror
of the liquor interest, has made that law
a dead letter. Several earnest and de-
termined Christian men agreed to see to
it that the law was enforced. Prose-
cution after prosecution followed this
resolve, and the saloon keepers became
alarmed. A Citizens League was
formed, public opinion and the press
were on its side, and in less than year
the number of minors to whom liquor
was sold had been reduced to 5000.
; CHILD MARRIAGE IN INDIA.
Christian missions are beginning to
produce really practical moral fruit in
India. DIR. Morrison, for many years
engaged in mission work in that country
in connection with the English Pres
byterian Church, writes in a most en-
couraging manner. Touching child
marriage and the remarriage of widows,
he says great change of opinion has
taken place. Public opinion has by
various means been tested on the general
question, and several leading Hindoos
have given opinions in favor of legisla-
tive change. Five of the most prom
1nent leaders of the Hindoo faith have
expressed themselves in favor of the re-
marriage of widows, hitherto disalowed,