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


to break down our Sabbath and institute
In the place OF il q foreign Sabbath.
HOW DO you FEEL.
We who have been brought up amidst the
hills OF New England, about giving up the
American Sabbath? Ye who have spent
you childhood under the shadow OF the Adj
rondacks or the Ca skills; ye who were born
on the banks of the Tennessee or the Sa-
vannah, how do you feel about giving %
the American Sabbath You cay, I'VE shall
not give 1t up. We mean to defend it as
long as there Is any strength lett In our arm
or any blood in our heart" Do not bring
your Spanish Sabbath here; DO not bring
your French Sabbath here; do not bring
your German Sabbath here. 1t shall be for
Us and our children forever a p1re, conse-
Grated, Christian, American Sabbath
| will make comparison between the
Sabbath as some of you have kno wn 1T. and
the Sabbath of Paris speak from observa-
ton. One Sabbath morning / was aroused
In Paris by great sound in the street
said: What is this2 "0h," they said, this
| is Sunday" An unusual rattle OF vehicles
OF all sorts. The voices seemed more boist-
erous than on other days. 1t seemed as II
oil the vehicles of Paris had turned out for
the holiday. The Champs Elysses, one great
mob of pleasure seeking people; balloons
flying. parrots chattering footballs rolling,
peddlers hawking their knick- knscks
through the streets. handorgans and every
kind of racket, musical and unmusicaL
When the evening came down all the the
aters were in full blare OF music and full
blaze Of light The wine stores and saloons
were thronged with an unusual NUMBER OF
customers AT eventide stood and watched
the excursionists coming home, tagged out
meu, women and children; gulf steam o.
fatigue. irritability and wretcbedness; for
should think it would take three or four
d avs to get over that miserable way OF Sum-
dayipg. II seemed more like an American
Fourth of July than q Christian Sabbath.
Now, in contrast, present one OF the Sab
baths in one OF our best American cities.
Holy silipcs coming down with the day
dawn. Business men more deliberately
looking into the faces of their children, and
talking to them about their Or, sent and fu
ture welfare; men sit longer at the table in
the morning because the stores re not to be
| O oened and the NE ca anical toos are not to
be taken up.
/ THERE ARE CONGRATULATIONS
and good cheer all through The house.
Houses of God vocal with thanksgiviDgs for
mercies received, with prayers for comfort,
with CHARITIES for the poor. rest f)r he body,
i re st for the soul the nerves quieted the tenn
| Piles cooled the mind cleared, the soul
strengthened, and our entire population
turned out Monday morning tan years
this life. better prepared for the life that to
come. which do you like best, the Ameri-
can Sabbath or the Partisan Sabbath? Do
you know in what boat The Sabbath came
i scrss the seas and laDde d on our shores2 Ii
was In the Mavfiower. Do you know In
what boat the Sabbath will leave US. 1t ever
goes? 1t will be in the ark that floats over q
deluge Of national iniquity.
u Still further: protest against the inva-
sion of the Lords day because 1T wrongs a
vast multitude of employees OF their rest.
The bar-tendir in case OF the gr0g shop, and
lin the case of the theater the sceneehifter,
the ballet.dancer, the call.boys, the innum-
cradle attendants and supern itineraries.
They are paid small salaries at the best
You see them on the stage in tinsel and tss.
sci, or you see them In the gauze whirling on
i toe-tortures, and you mistake them for IA
ries or Queens; but after IL o'clock al night
you may see them drudging through the
streets in faded dress $. shivering and tired,
seeking their homes in the garrets and cellars
of the great city. Now you propose to take
from thousands OF these employees through
out this country, not only all opportunity
i of moral culture but all opportunity OF
physical rest. Let the crushing juggernaut
stop one day in seven
oppose this invasion OF the Christian Sab
bath because ii is war On the spiritual vel
4 fare of the people, You have q soul2 Yes
bath dry will give that soul any culture2 II
you gentlemen of the restaurant or the Op.
era have six days In the week In which to
exercise your evangelical and heavenly in-
fuence, ought you not to allow Christian in
stitutions to have twenty-four hours? Is 1t
4 unreasonable to demand that IL you have 81 Z
Gays for the body and the intellect, We have
one day at least for our immortal SOUR Or,
to put II in another shape, do you not really
think that our
i IMPERIsHABLE SOUL
lis worth at least one-seventh as much as our
perishable body? You must not forget that
lninety.nine one hundredths OF all the Chris.
tian effort of this country are put forth on
the Lords day. That Is the day in which
the asylums. and the hosoiia s, and the pris.
Ious are visited by Christian men, That lie
the day when the youth Of our country get
their chief religious information. That is
the day when the most of The charities are
collected. That is the Gay when, under the
blast of $4,000 American pulpits. the sin OF
1.-THE land is assaulted aud men are sum
Il moned to repent. When you make war
upon any part OF Gods day you make war
i upon the asylums, and the penitenitaries,
and the hospitals, and the reform associa-
lions, and the homes of the destitute, and
the Church of the living God, which is tie
pillar and the ground OF ruth.
I an opposed to the invasion of the Sab.
bath, because it is war upon our political
institutions. When the Sabbath goes down
1.-The Republic goes down. Men who are not
!, willing TO obey Gods Law In regard to Sab
bath observances, are not fit to & Dvern them
selves. Sabbath breaking means dissolute-
ness, and dissoluteness is Incompatible with
selt-government What is the matter with
repuplicanism in Italy and Spain? No Sab
bath. France never will have permanent
republic until she quits her registering Sab
baths. Let the bad work go on and GU have
the commune and you have the revolu
ton and you have the sun OF national
prosperity going down in darkness and IN
!, blood. From that reign OF terror may the
= God of Lexington and Gettysburg deliver
|, us.
Still further: am opposed to this invasion
! OF the Sabbath because 1t is unfair, 1t Is par
. tial. Why has il been during the past few
weeks that some of the theaters have been
. allowed to be open and others have not
Why not have all open? Go further and
, see how unfair IL is. While operas ana the
atsrs in different cities are allowed to bs
open on the Sabbath day, dry goods estab
|, llishments must be closed and plumbers es
Establishments and the butchers anu thu
= bakers and the shoemakers, and the hard
: ware stores Tell ne by what law OF justic
!. you compel me to shut the door of my stor
y while you keep open the door Of your thes
: : ter? May II please your honors. Judges O
d the Supreme Court, when you give to To
!, opera and the theater the right 10 b
= open on the Sabbath day, you ought to Civ
P ct the same time the right to all commercis
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