The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-07-27
The Sunday Law Question.

RESISTANCE 70 Inc Al1ldlluu Vi AAlS
Sunday law was largely attended
by a respectable and appreeiative
audience Of both sexes. The Rev.
Ne. Hanks, IN calling the assem-
bly, to order, delivered one Of his
pointed addresses, IN the course of
which lie iHferentially charged the
authorities with compromising
misdemeanor by permitting gamb-
ling 10 be conducted as longas the
/ gambler comes up once a month
aud pays the fine Of SO. Il have
been told, he added, that some
Of the members Of the present city
council. who have made the pres
eut Sunday Jaw correspond with
the State law on the subject have
been known 10 adjourn after md
night on Saturday night and then
IN Yiolation Of their own law,
spend al least an hour in a bar
room before they so home. Mr..
Hanks thought that if the bosses
'lehaeel ia that way, there should
got De much expected Of the sub
alterus. OF 30 slightly transpose the
characters IA o quotation from
Virgil Quid fures facient, audent
auum Italia domini He recon-
mended the Inauguration Of a law
end order movement Al he ask
81 for uas the enforcement of law
ad lhe official recreant to his
du.y should g. down to his poliii-
I'd grave Applause.
The Rev. Samuel J. Anderson,
pastor Of ile East Dallas Baptist
Church, gas then introduced to
tle audience by Nh. Hanks, and he
proceeded to deliver e long adj
dress. ID which he economical su-
perlafiges while discoursing from
hygiouic, economic and religious
-iandpoiniz Oh the importance of
observing the Lords day. Under
lie first head be cited scientific
authority TO prove that man loses
a sixth Of an ounce Of oxygen ev-
/ cry day helabors, making an ounce
fr six days, all Of which would be
restored by rest on Sunday. In
this way lie presented a reconcilia-
ton Il science and religion and
evidence Of divine beneYolence. /
H. also cited actual experiment Of
tee proposition that more labor
can be performed in six days with /
one days rest, than in seven con-
iinuous days labor. Placing his
proposition on a broader basis, he
instanesd the case Of Il railroad, /
ca which Sunday labor was forbid /
den. that prospered, while another
railroad on which the dissertation
Of 'he Sabbath was enforced |
dropped till It's stock was quoted
at Il cent? on the dollar.
M Anderson paid his respects
70 the press IN a delicate way.
There we're two communities, he
said one Of them having FIVE and
che other Fix families. The first
community Observed the Sunday
lan and the children grew up TO
De- CHRISTMAS, but the SIX families
spent their time IN hunting and
plas ag baseball You pick
"a up a paper and read about those
comnunifies and you learn how
Bob vas struck out on the fly.
Eou got two OF three columns about
t.at community and you saw moth
~ aboat the Sunday law commu-
lity and Were told as a reason
rly that people would not read
religious uows Some people,
De Hai wanted to read about !
such matters but they did not
read & ia the morning papers be
cause b was not there He ae-
cnsed the United States Of work
ag 10000 people in the postal
department on Sunday, something
England did not do, and yet the
great commercial interests of Lon
don id not seem to suffer. Mr..
Anderson sas quite sure that the
Sunday law was not being enforced
He had been holding Sunday
school at Shady View Park, but
on last Sunday a man told him he
wanted 10 sell beer there, and that
the park was not fit for Sunday
school business. anyhow.
AZ the conclusion OF Mr.. Ander-
sons address the choir sang Hold
RE Fort
The Rev A. ?. Smith, j D..
pastor If the First Presbyterian
Church. vac the last speaker He
read tie Sunday law and then pro-
reeded We do not want any
better !aw than that. and We are
here h. ask that IT be enforced.
That IS ali the request we have to
snake u tie ofsoers; and when
say request do not understand me
as Saying that those officers are
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