The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-12
THE SUNDAY QUESTION.
IFS QUICK AND SATISFACTORY
SOLUTION MAY BE
Reached by the Employ ment of More
CleI ks aud Increased Shed and
Compress Facilities.
To the Editors of the Appeal:

To the Editors Of the Appeal:
Having read President HGdden's |
proclamation allowing ali men con-
Bected with the cotton business to con-
tinue their daily employment on Sun
days, and entirely Disappearing OF it,
| beg leave to say few words through
your paper, not with any expectation
of stopping the dissertation of Gods
holy day, but with the hope that this
humble effort of mine may stir up
Christians of greater intellectual en-
dowments to use their powers to dis
suade men from working on that one
day in seven which the Lord has hal
lowed. First, then, we citizens, OF
Memphis profess as q body to be
Christians, and not heathens. What
is Christian A believer in Christ;
md II in Christ, then necessarily in
God and his Holy Word. In this
Holy Word we find Gods command.
ments to men, among them, "Rt men,
her thou keep holy the Slbbath day;
y in it thou shalt do no man
ner OF work, thou and thy son and
thy daughter, thy manservant and thy
maidservant, thy cattle, and the stIau-
ger that is within thy gates" The
question is as to how far this COM
mandment was
MODIFIED BY CUR SAVIOR.
We are told that Christ healed sick
persois on The Sabbath-this was
work OF charity or love; and also that
He sanctioned His disciples obtaining
food which WIS necessary to the main
tenance of health and strength. Judg-
ing from these thirgs all wolk on
Sunday is not forbidden, There are
two exceptionE-works Of charity and
works OF neces ity. / think no one
wou d call it a work Of charity to make
men work all seven days OF the wetk,
though it might be charitable to some
members of our community to save
them from laying out more money in
enlargiDg wal ehouses when trade is so
dull. Then it remains 10 be decided
whether it is work OF necessity if 80,
let us work away with all our powers,
confident of Gods blessing on the
labor; but if not, let us rest on Sun
day, giving thanks to our Heavenly
Father, who has blessed us with such
a sp' eadid crop, lest if We be unthaDk-
full for His good gifts He send the
curse of blighted' season upon us.
1t is said that if we do
not work hard and keep the crop NOV
ing the planters will ship elsewhere
but why not let them, If we have more
than we can possibly handler Every
house in Memphis is doing a
eplenbid business, and why try to do
still more at the expense of the clerks,
who have to work cay and night, and
Sundays too? 1t surely cannot be ne
ceesity to work a man until he has
time TO think of nothing but cotton
True, the clerks are willing to do it,
because if they do rot they will lose
their positions, which are
BREAD AND BUTTER,
and therefore work on Sunday or any
other time is necessity TO them
But the heads Of firms-is it necessity
with them that causes Sunday work
We pray "Give Us this day our daily
bread"; not give us this dPy oul
bread for the rest Of our lives, and
some to leave for our children. Are
there any of our prominent cotton
men who do not receive their daily
bread? Let them and their clerks
work on Sunday. II the planters like
our market so well that the amount
shipped here is more than we car
handle in six days, why not builC
more warehouses and take
on extra CLERKS, the factol
dops not pay for the storing, the plant
or does that. Why try to crowd 1900
bales intl war; ouse of 5000 capacity
unless We wish to make the planter ;
present of storage on 5000 and canno
afford to do it otherwise? The com
presses, also, which are running nigh
and day, aud still ara unable to pres
, fast enough, are lot sufficient for 81
large market. Every year, at thu
: busiest time, business is che cked TO
the want OF more congresses and NOR
} con press room. The fault is laid b.
} the compress on the railroads; but
r the railroads will not put on enougl
} cars, then The congresses ought t,
have enough room to store the cottol
! until moved by the railroads.
NEW COMPRESS OR COMPRISES
with their extra storage room woul'
pay for themselves at leaet and Nigh
put money in somebody's pocket; O
course not so much as ore doing tn
work of two now does. There is n
more necessity for Sunday work il
Memphis than there is in Scotland O
any other place where Sunday
strictly kept, but there are ceriainl
l far more OF this worlds goods to b
> gained, and II we desire to lay u
treasures for ourselves on earth wher
1 rust and moth doth corrupt an
thievs break through and steal, let u
3 not interrupt the flow of dollars int
7 our pockets on Sundays, for the tim
: we have to eat, drink and be merry i
Q this world is very short, but surely
would be much batter for each one {
us to say with Joshua: GAS for N
aud my house, we will serve tb
Lord" Let us then not forsake th
y assembling OF ourselves together o
Sundays to return thanks for ou
many blessings, lest our uneratefu
ness receive some such sign OF God
!, anger as those awful days of 1878 an
! 1879. COTTON MAN.
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