Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1886-02-06

these ere limited by tho rights of
other men in them also. The only
natural rights therefore which YsD
forfeits rs a necessssy compensated
for bis civil rights, are those which
conflict with be rights Of others. A
m mny not steal because such sies'~
ing implies a corresponding damc "a
TO the rights of some other man, and
the same is true of all acts that 1re
Justly prohibited by the civil lav.
But a man under any just Legislation
can pley any game upon any day,
that does not conflict with the rights
OF any citizen. Matters which sre
purely question of private conscience
do not come within the purview OF
civil law, and the man who appeals
TO the law to make another man con-
form to lis views in mere question
OF conscience, msnifests q spirit of
iyrf Any that should be rebukeds5y xly
Legislative body.
Gases OF this kind are only legit-
imately the subjects of moral sussion,
and the stste justly and properly pro-
tects churches aud other institutions
that propose to use this ip1uerce,
aga nst any possible violence Of suoh
81 may propose 10 interfere with thass
rights. This think is fair abstr ,c5
Of the argument from secular stsad
point.
l. remains now to be seen If thrre
is any more substantial basis for The
Senator's bill, TO be found in the prin-
ciples Of the Christian religion, even
should we grant that it is right 10
enforce religion by law.
Regarding the observance OF a
Sabbath as a Christian institution,
there are some very interesting
facts. with which it has seemed TO
me that Christian people arc sur
prisingly unfamiliar, and which is
explained by the fact thet there is
such unanimity of sentiment about
il, that the scriptural teachings upon
the subject have never been much
discussed.
1t is significant fact that in the
New Testament which claims to-
thoroughly furnish" requisite in
formation regarding the duties Of
Christians, there is not single llno
from Jesus or any New TestsmaLt
writer that enjoins the observance Of
any Sabbath, Jewish or Christian,
or that sets apsrt any day upon which
Christians are TO refrain from any
labor or play, that they may props rly
uov >J;. any Ctdcr Cay. II w al
suppose that 50 prominent a reli gious
ordinauca as it now is, was an ordi-
nance Of the religion taught by Jesus
and his immediate followers, sDd
while either accidentally or purpose
ly omitted from their written teach
iugs, was nevertheless tacitly under
stood among them as a religious or
diDance, then it becomes equally as
strange that in a book which is sup
posed to rehuke all the varisties o.
sin known at that day, in no single
Instance does it rebuke anybody for
the violation of the Sabbath.
Jesus is represented as having in
stituted ceremony which consisted
in eating bread and drinking wine,
and which WAS instituted sin memory
q t" him, or to perpetuate his MEM
ory.
His disciples arc Represented as
having subsequently, abserved the
memorial service or restitution "upon
the first day Of the week." aud that
statement is the only alIusiou in the
New Testiment TO any fact thas char
acterized that day. That they gb-
-tained from any play or labor on
that day, that they would not have
inoulg, d in upon any other day, sp-
pear 10 bs au assumption purely
grat1iious
L. is significant fact that che
Jews continually charged him w,,A
iisteg9i dug the Sabbath, while tlsy
uever cudrge hirn with the violation
II any uther nrecept i'll the decslogue,
aud tha5 in his replies to them as
lever asserted his purpose to observe
n, blt said instead 'ihe Sabbath is
made for man and not man for the
Sabbath" that bis religion was a
me wine in new bottles" and not
new patch upon aad OLD garment,
that his religion "cometh not with
obseTvation," that the Kingdom Of
OF haGgcn was within you," and that
l's ordinances were not such AS his
followers should "appesr unto men"
tD Go, but ware to be done in secret
and not letting the left hand know
wbsy the right haud did.
When men tasted they were 20
,ake pains to wash their faces and
aunoint their heads, or comb aud
brush them as Wa would say AT this
day, and set just rs they ordinarily
did SD ihat their pious purposes
would not be remarked. All such
secreilyeuess and heart privacy RS
this, were perfectly inconsistent With
that pubic demonstration when
necessarily accompanied tho obsery-