The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-01

and hosiery and hard ware and lumber and
coal take of their hats to the rumseller.
elected to particular honor. It IL unsafe for
any other class of men 70 be allowed license
for Sunday work. But swing ont your signs,
ye trafickers in the peace OF families and
IN the souls of immortal menl Let the corks
fly and the beer foam and the rum 60 tearing
down the half consumed throat of the ire
briate. God does not see. does he2 Judg
ment will never come, will It?
They would bury the Sabbath very de.
Gently under the wreath of the target com
pany and to the music of all Strakosch'
brasen instruments There while the at
tempt to kill the Sabbath by the stroke OF
axe and fail and the yardstick has beauti-
fully failed, it is proposed in our day to
drown the Sabbath by opening all the grog-
shops. An organized movement il on foot
to get the New YORK Legislature to repeal the
present law which foroids the sale of intoxi
eating liquor on the Sabbath. There are to.
day In the different cities ten thousand
hands and ten thousand pens busy in at
tempting to cut out the heart of our Chris
tian Sabbath and leave it mere skeleton oil
what 1t once was. The effort is organized
and tremendous, and unless the friends Of
Christ and the lovers OF good order shall
rouse up right speedily, their sermons and
their protests will be uttered after the csstte
is taken. There are cities in the land where
the Sabbath has almost persisted, and every
Sabbath 10 night those cities are In full blaze
of tbeatric and operate entertainment. and
il "a becoming practical question whether
We who received pure Sabbath from the
hands OF our fathers shall have piety' and
pluck enough to give to our children ths
came blessed inheritance. The Eternal GOO
helping rs, We will.
PROTEST AGAINST THIS INVASION
Of the holy Sabbath, in the first placy. be
cause il is . war on divine enactment. Goc
| aye, In lsaiah: III thou torn away thy foo
from doing thv pleasure en- Ny holy day
thou shalt walk upon the high places
What did He mean by doing thy pleasurer
BE referred to secu ar and worldly amuse
ments. A man told me he vas never 81
much frightened as In the midst of an earth
quake, when the be asts of the field beloved
In fear, and even the barnyard fowl
screamed Ia terror. Well, IL was when tn,
earth was shaking and the sky was full o.
fire that God made the great announcement
Remember the Sabbath day TO keep i
holy" Go along through the streets wher'
the theaters are open on q Sabbath night
places OF entertainment and tell mt
II that is Keeping the Sabbath holy
Oh" says some one, God won't be dis
b pleased with . grand sacred concert" 4
\ gentleman who was present at o grand %
cred concert" said that during the exercise
there were comic and sentimental songs, in
terspersed With coarse jokes; and there wer
dances and Q farce and tight rope walking
and traPeze performances. 1 suppose i
was holy dance and consecraied tigh
rope. l am not certain about that, however
but this know, it was q grand sacred CON
cert"
i We hear a COED deal of talk about tn
rights OF the people" to have Just sue
am use ments on Sunday rs they want Z,
have. wonder If the Lord has any rights
You rule your family. the Governor role
land; wonder # the Lord has right G.
rule nations and make the enactment: RE
member the Sabbath day 70 keep il holy,
and II there Is any appeal to q higher oour
from that DECISION aud II the men who ar,
warning against that enact uent are no
guilty of high treason against the maker O
Heaven and earth. Thty have Ia our cite
but God on trial. 1t has been the theatre
and the opera houses of the land plaintiff
verses the Lord Almighty defendant, and tn
suit has been begun and who shall come on
ahead you know. Whether it be popular o.
unpopular now announce it a. my opin
ion that the people have no rights save thos
which the great Jehovah gives them. Ii
has never given the right to man to breal
stands He will never give that right
i THE PROPHET ASKS
la question which can easily answer, evil
man rob God?" Yes, they robbed him la
Sunoay night at the thesteis and at the Or
era. house, and charge upon them the infs
nous AID high handed larceny. 1 believ
t with the TAILOR. The crew had been dir
. charged from the vetssl because they woul'
y m - m N 4
Lords day. The Captain went out to &c
sailors he found one man, and he said Z
. him, will you serve me on the Sabbath [?
, mo" Why not2" We'll" replied tn
I old sailor "a man who will rob God Al
, mighty of his Sabbath, would rob me of m.
{ wages II he got a chance" Oh, 1t Is do:
tardly mean when We break the Sabbath
, Suppose you bad seven oranges, aud yo'
J gave to YOUR child six OF them putting tb
> other oIaoge in your pocket for yourself
, and you should find that the child had no
, been satisfied with the six oranges and ha'
. come and stolen your seventh. That Is pre-
, cisely what men do when they break tn
Sabbath. suppose you were poor and yo
. came to dry goods merchant and aske
$ for some cloth for garments snd he SHOULD
: say: ''Tl give you six yards" ad while b
was of from the counter binding up the 81,
: yards you should 90 behind the counter a n
: steal one additional yard. That is VIDA. q,
cry man does when he breaks the Lord
Z Sabbath. God gives uB six days out OF seven
, reserving one for himself, and you will no
/, let Him have 1t. 1t is mean beyond al
, computation.
D am opposed to the Dissertation Of tn
D Sabbath by secular entertainments, becaus
Q il Is O war on the statutes of our State. In
{ law Gays:
1T shall not be lawful to exhibit on th
: 6st day of the week, commonly called Sur
day, TO the public, In any building, garder
IgrounGs, concert room or other room o
place within the city or county of New Yor
/. any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opers
ballet, play, farce, negro rinstrelsy, negr
= or other dancing, or any other en- terrain men
- of the stage. or ~ part Or parts thereon, o
any equestrian, circus or dramatic perform
. auce, or any performance OF jugglers, acre
, bots or rope dancing"
: Was there ever palmer enactment tina
thst2 Who made the law You who at th
ball ot-bsx decided who should 60 70 Alban
' and sit In the Legislature. They made ID
law for you and for your families, and no
I say that any man who attempts to owe
d ride that Law insults you and me and ever
3 man who has the right Of suffrage in ii
/, state of New York.
d Still further protest against this invssio
\ OF the Sabbath because IL IL . foreign va
b Now il you heard ct this moment the boon
u ing OF gun in the harbor or Q shell fro
II some foreign frigsts should drop into OF
II streets, now long would you keep your sea
NJ in the tabernacle? You would want 70 h.
le the foe, and every gun than could be ma