The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-20
DISSERTATION OF THE SABBATH.
Evangelist Munhall Denounces Sunday Camp
Meetings and All Kinds of Sunday Labor.

Meetings and All Kinds of Sunday Labor.
Lea W. Munhau preached at Roberts Park
NJ E. Church yesterday morning and evening
His morning topic was THE Observance of the
Sabbath, his text being taken from the TWEEN
tieth chapter of Exodus, Remember the Sab
bath day anG keep it holy" etc., beginning with
verses bearing upon the subject and the second
chapter of Mark 9th verse. 1.-The Sabbath
was made for man and not man for the
Sabbath" MIR Munhall spoke of the two phases
of the Sabbath question presented in the two
texts; the first indicating that the seventh day
was set apart by God in which man should do no
work, and was to rest and cease from secular
pursuits. He said it was not for him to enter at
length upon why we don't observe the seventh
day and do now observe the first day of the
week. 1t is enough for us to know that through
out all the world among the Christians of every
land the first day is observed as the Sabbath of
the Lord, and since the day is established he
does not see how it is possible for US to observe
any other day
The second text calls to attention the reason
why this day should be observed Man requires
one day in seven as day of rest He is built
upon that plan. Many things go to show this.
A man bought an eightday clock. He was
proud of it and fearing 1t might run down, when
ever he thought about it--every day or two-he
would wind it up. 1t soon got out of order and
he took it to ieweler. AS soon as he looked at
1t he knew what was the matter 1t had been
wound up out of season. 1t was built on the
eicht,day plan
There are six days for man to labor and one
fOrr hI1Si
and worldly thoughts, a day to give to commun-
ion with God. 1t is not a day for idlenesS and
sleep The Lord would get nothing by that sort
of thing The rest that man is to take is
with the Lords affairs, and when SO
than in swinging all day in a
hammock drinking lemonade. II knew bust
ness man on South Meridian street." Mr.. Mum
hall said, "a man of great mental endowments
and great physical endurance. He worked early
ands late every weekday at his business and
would be there also on Sunday. 1t was not
great while until he was taken to the hospital
for the insane and he soon died there That
man would have been alive to-day had he re-
garded Gods law. We know of others who give
this same attention to business and defy the law
of God. have no hesitation in saying that half
the men who are in the asylums to-day would
not be there had they kept the Sabbath. There
are preachers who do not keep this law, who
prepare their sermons on Sunday, and do more
work on that day than the entire seven days
of the week This not the way to do Gods
work. Whatever you do on the Lords day or
cause your servants or the beasts in your barn
to do must bring evil consequences
There is law on the statute books of the
State predicated upon this divine law, which is
for the good of the people. This statute calls
upon the people to turn aside on the first day of
the week from their secular pursuits for that
day. so he that violates the divine law violates
the law Of the land also. There is no man or
woman here protesting to be Christian who can
refuse to observe these things The observance
of this law is required by the Methodist church,
by the statutes of the State, by the word of God
Sunday is instituted that he may come to the
house of God and hear His word Perhaps some
of you protesting Christians send over to the
baker for bread, or get milk of
the milkman. By doing SO you
are violating the law of the land
and by your patronage causing others to do so,
and to violate the law of God Drug stores
keep open to sell cigars to church members
None of these places would keep open if the
Christian people did not patroniZe them. Your
violation of law brings other serious conse-
quences with it. 1t breeds lax observance of
the Sabbath. Your son will go to the Sunday
base ball game to the theater, if it is open,
and he will break your heart and bring your
gray hairs in sorrow to the grave Your little
account of the Sabbath will be the cause of this,
and you will reap what you have sowed. No
matter what Supreme Court has said in the
matter of a cigar being necessity the law of
the land says differently, and you violate the law
when you enter drug store on Sunday to buy
cigar.
You ride upon the street cars on Sunday with
out thought of the poor drivers whom you make
work seven days in the week. sixteen hours a
day for their bread and butter, nor Of the mule
that is entitled to one days rest in seven. If
church members would not patronize the cars
on Sunday, they would not run; if they did not
INV hG Al
lished. Christian people are the newspaper buy
ing people In th' country, and the Sunday
newspaper is doing more harm than all other
things together. The selling of these papers is
in violation of the law of the State. The Sun
day newspaper brings business and the feveriSh
things of the week into the Sabbath.
projecting the secular things into the holiday
The government lends itself to the violation of
its own laws in opening the postofice on Sunday.
Men 60 to the postofice to get their business
letters, and answer them instead of going to
church. You say these are little things So
they are but it is the little foxes that spoil the
vines. The fathers have eaten sour grapes and
the teeth of the children are on edge. The man
who lives in open violation of the law is not
Christian at all. He must forsake his sins, come
away from these things and become an obedent
child or God, else he cannot enter into salvation
The campmeeting of day is not the camp
meeting or years gone by. They are not so much
for the salvation of souls as for recreation;
some religious exercises. The idea of getting
anybody saved seems to be far from the thought
of those who manage them. When they got to
running Sunday trains. / insisted that it was
against the law of the State well against
the law OF God. But they got ten cents from
each ticket sold by the railroad, and they took
the money and became particeps crimnis. At
the cutlery made against the Sunday trains to
Acton they stopped them two years. That
shows the camp meeting folks can stop them.
But they were resumed and the reason thew
are not stopped is because they want that ten
cents. 1t is money making scheme. The
trustees of Acton camp meeting ground voted
to receive no money from Sunday trains, but
when the business report came in, there was
gift from the railroad and it correspondent with
the number of ten cent pieces received for Sun
day fares. They have stretched out the meet
ing at Acton until it covers three Sundays and
they make so much more money. At Loveland
they whip the devi, around the stump. They
CHARGE ten cents adnissi at the gate rha