The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-18

tie flower, none the less handsome be-
cause 80 plentiful.
Year by year the public increase In in
terest In base ball, our distinctive Amer
lean athletic game, is very marked. The
game bids fair to live an indefinite pc
Rod and it will not be strange il the
young men of 1888 shall play it with as
much zest as those OF to-day. The one
strongest enemy to its perpetuation 1 see
in itself. More and more it is becoming
goddess game in this that it desecrates
the hottest day of the week. There should
be strictly enforced ordinance in
every city in the land prohibiting the
playing of base ball on the Sabbath day.
The people must have recreation. They
must, must they? And must the people
have recreation and no God? Or, to put
it trihe milder, must recreation come
first and then Godp Not SO, not so. Re-
creation is necessary but it need not
crowd the Creator out of human life and
human affairs. The ultimate result of base
ball playing on the Sabbath day will be
one Of two things, dangerous general
breaking down OF the sanctity of the Sab
bath or the complete subjugation of the
game and the players to the laws OF
God and man. That recreation which is
obtained in defiance OF thess 1aws OF God
and man is not only unworthy the name
but it Isl certain to prove disastrous.
The sooner lsxs sszznst base ball playing
on the sabbath, ans passed, where they
do not now exist, and the sooner those are
enforced now on the statute books, the
better it will be, not only for the COM
munity and the state but for those who
play.
I find this northern city gay indeed in
its winter time sports and pastimes, in It's
carnival and in the attendant scenes
marking this striking event, but find it
a none the less attractive locality in mid
summer. The people from the far south
land have not been slow in availIng them
selves of the rare opportunities here pre-
sented for summer time pleasures. With
in short ride of the city, in a variety of
direction may be found beautiful little
lakes with many cottage along the
beach not few of them pretentious in
size and interesting in architecture. Here
during the summer months, flock the
people from the hot South, and all the
summer through they fish and boat ride,
dance and read, WELD lawn tennis
rackeis and I presume-I am not to be
quoted as authority on the subject-some
of them make love. Well, what of it? Is
there purer, nobler, holier thing in this
world than the honest love of an honest
man for an honest woman and her love
for him? The would. be wits and the shall
low-pated satirist who make much sup
posed fun of the love of man and maiden
could well be In better business. have
little to choose between the mawkish-
ness Of raw, undone sentimentalism
and the feeble efforts OF these men who
have never known what real love is, but
yet who shape their phrases as though
they had experienced all love. There is
not sensible philosopher who will not
tell you that the home is the basis of the
social fabric; there is not man, be be
philosopher, sage, orordinary mortal, who
will not tell you, il he is truths ally, that
love is the basis of the home. From the
Father down to the lowliest creature on
his footstool, the mightiest motive power
in heaven on earth is love. VISA.