Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-22
TRAFFIC ON SUNDAY.
The Rev. C. E. Locke Scathingly At
tacks First Day Traders.
LONDON AND EDINBURG BEAT Us
Ih Maintaining Strict Observance Of the
Day of Rest.
SOME POINTS OF COMPARISON MADE

The Smithfeld Street NJ. e. Church was
filled last evening when the pastor, Rev.
Charles Edward Locke, commenced his ad-
dress, at 8 o'clock, on the subject of ''The
Sabbath breaker a traitor against his coun-
try" The reverend gentleman, taking for
his text the passage from Matthew xxi. 81
''They will reverence Ny son"-said:
"Many years ago there dwelt in a common
London lodging house, in poor locality,
in an impoverished condition, without
friends, without anything more to hope for
in this world, a noble type, physically and
mentally, of American manhood. To him
came no honor, to him came no glory, to
him came no recompense for duty nobly
done, for life we'll spent, with friends
around to comfort and console him in his
final hour. There he lay, forsaken and
forlorn, heart-stricken with the glory of
national disgrace and the blackness of in
evitable death lowering over his soul. So
died the traitor. So died Benedict Arnold.
"When Jesus Christ taught in the temple,
surrounded by the chiefs of the people and
the high priests of the nation, He illustrated
His teachings by means OF parallels. In all
His utterances He was especially careful to
inculcate in the breasts Of His hearers proper
respect and reverence for Himself as embody-
ing the law Of God. Reverence is neces-
sity to obedience to the law. Christ under
stood this condition thoroughly, and carried
the execution of this law to the utmost; He
was no aristocrat, He never usurped or
sought any high place among the people.
He was after human souls.
WORKS HE DID ON SUNDAY.
'If man was poor. He was there; if he
had no friends and was in need of help,
Jesus became his friend and succored him.
To explain the fact of His being God, He
went about performing miracles, and He did
these things for no other end than to obtain
the reverence for Himself and His doctrines
which He deemed it essential to His purpose
He should get.
eff there be proper reverance in the
community there must be a proper moral
tone. Virtue will depend on reverance,
and equally will reverance depend on vir-
tue. In this great country of ours we en-
joy perfect liberty; the more liberty, the
larger becomes the personal obligation. If
there be no reverance, there can be no full
fllment of the law. The Sabbath day is
the chief institution for the inculcation of
reverential feeling, and from the earliest
times punishment was meted out to the
breakers of the Sabbath law. So that the
Sabbath day, from the time of its founda-
ton to the present, has been a teacher of
morals, and the upholder of authority, and
an instructor of Gods law"
The speaker then drew a strong comparl-
son between the different methods of observ-
Ing the Sabbath in London, in England,
and in Paris, where, in the former, the day
was observed in the strictest religious sense
and as holy day; but in the latter games of
all sorts were INDUCED in, and trade was in
full swing, horse racing carried on, and
the theaters open. Continuing the rev.
erend gentleman said:
''London observes Gods law Paris makes
the Sabbath a holiday. not holy day.
London stands to-day at the head of all ma
tions in this respect; Paris the reverse.
And how long is it supposed the French |
Republic will last? Not long. Where |
there is no reverence for the Sabbath, there |
can be no respect for authority, and in |
France there is no reverence for the Sab |
bath. In Edinburg the observance of the |
law is enforced; they serve God there. |
Why? Because the law is taken care of In |
high places. There, there are no street cars |
and no restaurants trading The |
Sunday there, as it should be here, ought to |
be observed as mandatory of reverence
for the law.
COMPARED WITH ARNOLD.
'What snail we call the man who breaks
the Sabbath? What would you? 1 would |
call him traitor to his country. 1 have
told you the story of Benedict Arnold. |
Well, 1 would call the Sabbath trader even
as great traitor to his country as was that |
man.
'The chief bulwark Of the republic is
the Sabbath. The keystone to the country
is the Sabbath day, and would call the
breaker of it as deserving to be coupled with
Benedict Arnold. The observance of the
Sabbath is principle upon which depends
the prosperity of the country. The Sabbath
breaker opens up his esta ablishment for trade,
sells buttermilk and other drinks, and so
strikes at the keystone of the arch of the
Sabbath day, and lets fall tine home to
misery and destruction. How is it
with the city of Pittsburg to-day? If
'oreign cities, such as London and Edin-
burg, can observe the day, why not Pitts
burg? If we cannot make up our minds to
observe this day, let us build a high wall
'ound the city at once, and place on it
olacard with, Consigned to the devil
You are honored among other cities because
If the stand you have taken on the Sabbath.
We must continue to deserve the reputation,
md improve on it. Sentiment is on the
ide of the Sabbath observer, and they who
re in opposition must be ranked as on the
ide of the prince of darkness. We have
10 right to go to places where due observance
# the day is not kept, and let us keep away
rom them. The punishment visited on the
hildren of Israel will surely be visited
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