St. Paul daily globe., 1886-06-21
Rev. Drs. Christie and Smith Discuss
Shaving and Picnicking on the
Sabbath Day.
Iabies Whose Mothers Do Not Want Them
Waiting to be Given
Away.
The New General Manager of the
Ryan Hotel--Saunter1ng on
Sunday.
$ Amusements-- Roundup of
Events That Made One
Days News.
SUNDAY PICNICS.
Rev. Dr. Smith Tells of Two or
Three Kinds.

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Three Kinds.
DR.. S. G. Smith preached last evening on
the question: ''Shall We Picnic on Sun
day?" The First NJ. E. church was thor
Oughly flied, the pastor having the happy
faculty of drawing very large audiences.
Dr Smith spoke substantially as follows:
have heard that in times past there was a
very dreadful Sabbath on this planet, when
children were compelled to sit in straight
backed chairs for hours and study the cate
chism, it being mortal sin TO go into the
yard. Then they had two Sunday schools
and three sermons each Sunday. The SER
lnols were two hours long, ard more people
attended then than so to hear short sermons
now-a-GayS, partly on account OF the quality
OF the sermon as well as the length. Nine
teen out OF twenty of the best people came
from homes where this was the
rule. Now, I am not in sympathy
with the Puritan Sabbath, nor am in favor
OF its being perpetual holiday. The prophet
OF the Olden time spoke of the Sabbath as "a
delight" and between the Puritan and the
Old Bible Sabbath there is mix-up. The sub
sfitute for both is what we want to consider.
Some people have picnic at home, get up
late, dress by and by, eat big dinner, go out
for Il drive. eat lunch and go to bed, perhaps
having worked in an hour to write letter.
a practical business man told me that there
Was more kicking on Tuesday than any other
day. because people ate and slept too much
&nd had the dyspepsia on Sunday. He is not
very pious, and sometimes goes to the Office
ON Sunday. yet he insists that people shall
get up Ut the same hour and eat the same
meals on Sunday as on other days. You
cant steal the Sabbath away from the Lord
by ja,Hming it into the other six days. The
next picnic shall speak of is the picnic in
the woods 4 hard-workng man gets q rig
and drives his family to the cool woods on
IL.
stream and the green grass are there, and the
cool breeze fans his brow. Now if the
world is so constituted that this is the work.
ingrlanS only chance to get into the WOODS,
then would give him more Sundays,
ESPECIALLY IN THE SUMMER,
to go out there. But, as general thing, it is
not the wOrkingmen who talk of this. They
usually think more of Sunday than the richer
class. l deny that, as final development of
social economy we are reduced to Sunday as
Il holiday, or else have none. l am kept from
faVOring the idea of Saturday half-holiday,
for experience in England shows thar many
get drunk before night. The picnic in the
woods might be pious one with the Bible
read and a prayer offered, but supposing six
people, not of the same family, go out in a
tiree-seated spring wagon. They can be
joined by six others, and then get some bot
ties Of beer and band. and where can we
draw the line? AS a matter of Sunday OBJ
servance, don't see any difference between
journeying to a camp meeting or to beer
garden. The next picnic I wish to speak of
is the picnic in the saloons. / do not know
why this is kept up all over this country, for
there are only five states in which Sunday
closing law is enforced. l wish every busi-
ness man would follow the pattern of some
institutions and pay their help on Monday
instead of Saturday. In Ireland 14,000 ar
rests are made every week day, but on Sun
day the saloons are closed and there are only
4,G00 arrests. Crime has diminished in Scot
land since the Sunday-closing law, as it it did
in New York during the three yerrs 1867 to
10, when the Sunday law was enforced. DR..
Rocher showed that in Germany women
usually commit suicide on Sunday, and men
on Monday. The woman alone with her Sor-
row and trouble on Sunday takes her life.
The man after days carousal awakes dis
gusted at himself and commits suicide. There
is no such remedy in materia medica for q
permanent cure as day in the house of
worship, when a mans mind is Gained
and he makes himself an heir to
all that is good and holy, Sab
bath devoted to good thoughts, to good
deeds. from which a man emerges as giant
strengthened with good wine. A Sabbath of
worship is essential to Sabbath of rest. The
question is whether you will have q Sabbath
day, or whether you will toll seven days. I
Call your attentian to Germany, where petit
tions are going from every trade to the
Germany is
BOUND DOWN WITH TOLL.
That picture of the German quietly drinking
beer on Sunday and not getting intoxicated,
is q deuson and lie. I refer you to Austria,
TO Belgium, to France, where the people are
canoring for a Sunday like yours. 1t is
necessary that Sunday should have the sane
ton of the law to be observed. The lives of
the churches depend on this question. In
Berlin, Germany, only 2 per cent. of the pop
uiatiCn attend church. In Edinburgh, Scot
land, with a sanctified Sabbath, 85 per cent
OF the people attend church. Shall your
young men live in hotels and boarding houses
without social restraints, or shall they be
church attendants? Out of this Vesuvius of
tramDlIng on the convictions which men have
held sacred in all time, the great civilizations
o. the past have been wrecked. And do you
think our civilization bears charmed life?
] tell you God loves his own. There is not q
law OF society or morality that man may
break with impunity. l speak of this sub
iect out of the gravity of the occasion. If
God lie God follow Him, or if Mammon, then
follow him.
DR.. Smith announced that next Sunday
evening he would close the series with a
discourse on The Christian Sabbath" and
would answer questions relative to the
Sabbath that might be sent in during the
week.