New-York tribune., 1886-02-01
SUNDAY roR THE MASSES or TIE PEOPLE.
TIN, ppv p rtrnER NEWTON on OPENING THE IL

TIL, pry r urBER NEWTON on OPENING THE IL
nrARIEs-A PRACTICAL LABOR REFORM.
.Thc most practical bit of labor reform ever
secured Wa, the institution OF the sabbath said the
Rev T. Heber Newton in All Souls Church protestant
FuScopaD Yesterday In speaking the " True sacreH-
ness of Sunday" "When we preachers grow dhu' ana
prosy and stupid your thoughts wander down town. ana
while the parson drones on tho pcws driving rat
ting business remember hearing OF certain notea
lawyer who church regularly, paying TOT hiSL
priced pew as good investment for as he once owned
he found nothing conducive u thinking out his tan
aled cases as the quietlng influences OF the pulpit
The danger to rOsS day lies in the lnsldiois hl
proaches the spirit OF gain Let u4 Keep our caDDun
tweny-.oUr long. even though our Operators ~
recrraton The trus sabbath has always carried IN II
more less OF this idea of recreation Inc nnclsnt Je"
5h sabbath was day Of joyous IaihiJ H'c' ~ was
feast day IN Israel not iHst gay -, . ,...oL
thus was it also IN the early Chr stIan chupcn ,
was a hereto. Tine Roman Catholic Church has always
rIjsr to reyetse the ancient idea Of hcresy. ana
iuaie II cons ia eating dinner ana indulginS
M hearty laugh on runday. In tAs iecOShllIOh "i ou
ay AS feast day or festival is involved the whole qnrs
ron of the lawfuiness OF innocent amusemcntS. Of
puro pleasures on that day. The danger OF sanctio1
ug item IS plain before to-day. We had truly sacred
concerts for while. but soon thorc came 70 DC lcu,u
under the term sacr concert variety OF eulertan
mont which might well satisfy tho most coStno1 int3n
mind III religion. Strauss and Ohenbach arc tho TeIl2
Harry IIm gives sacred concert wLere the
loudest music is tho noise OF the hsticuh-
mr theatrical managers to gnt out the batto which
present j. iaSluE Over me Uril - va & oJ -,
std2e yourselves call pure the chufch Oh the
future vi. dispa'sionatey consider the question OF
theatre opening ON sunday evening -
We are not Compromising VITA conscience or yleIu-
ing dangerous concession 10 popular canor III auVo
eating the opening libraries and museuiDB on sun
day afternoons and evenings We urging legitimate
S %ttorc .e nf the ay which is sacred TO tho higher
life OF the intellect. Let tho Church open wide every
uD o o beore s1 ih hungry throng into the most holy
nFt rtIf and llsI
iako dirrrily into her hands the work OF popn-
larZing education sunday with the view OF
leading thought into noble feeling, knowledge into WIS
dom truth worship what finer Use could be made
OF oar church buildings, the SUNDAY evenings when
they closed, than to them Tor popular lect
ure, u which the ain should De not merely to give
Lnowl-dcr but such knOw.oigc should lead 70 nober
life aud prpt1uuder awe II auy OF You men OF hrans
who lstn TO me this morning suud feel moved to un-
drrfakc snch y mission of religious education for the
WOrkug-pcOpe Ot our city, know OF one chuIch whose
doors will DO thrown open to this true task OF our stcreu
How shall we secure tds highest end OF sunday for
the mas, oi men TAe pulpIt must be filed with living
men WHO nave learned truth tuer sIuls, who are
IN mind and open at The tOp who have seen sns
later than the times Ot the ancient jews VINO can oea
with the problems Of our present world VINO caI
breathe upon souls oi their hearers iatA ana hopo
and cnarity.'
DISCUSSING A COMPREHENSIVE SUBJECT.
In the BoomnCda.c Reformed Church the
Rev Carlos Martyr discussed " The American sunday
the Museums the Press, ana the IIaf saturday Holi
day" IN doing so, he slii, among other things
The Sabnath Is fast becoming what politicians call
burning question. The Journals, with Que or two ex
crpuous against II, AID these exceptions are only
Indifferent on the subject A. rIe the journals come
lrou the people aud back 10 the people that Is to say
thy only reflect what i, IN the air Like the stage they
only mirror people ana human Uature. TIE sheet
tire average editor Is Dut an echo Oi the original npn
ION tle a-srs A. In the movement OF snake, the
tail AWAY, moves the head II IS with these average
Journals. All who in opposition to the eabhath may
be- placed in OF three cll>ss Those who were born
over the sra aud who como here with their autiSaO-
htc notions deeply seated IN tlcT natures recl ant
Americans who have gone 10 Europe and innlbed farS
ian gOdlr-Suc-s; 1hdeis, whose president l. x g. IN
rcrsOlI and secretary :. T. Putnam. But We cannot al
ford o give up peculiarly American Institution rs
thr .hlaih We ought to spend part OF the day IN
the worrhp God; q part In own homes with our
wives aud little oucs part in social meetings. and uso
n T., tiiuc specially appropriate FOR deeds OF kindness
aud 0. charity and mercy.