St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-12
A State Meeting in Behalf Of
Its Strict Enforce
ment.
W. F. Crafts, the Champion
Of the Blair Bill,
Speaks.
DR.. Burrell Turns Over the
Sunday Newspapers a
Little Bit.
Officers of 8 Prominent So
ciety Are Chosen by the
Meeting.

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had an interesting all-day meeting yes
terday at the Westminster church. The
morning services began at $3.50. Rev.
j. B. Donaldson conducted the services
of opening devotion. Rev. w. K.
Marshall presided.
The first paper was by Rev. C. A. Van
Anda on the topic. "Divine Authority
of Sabbath" The discourse touched
technically on which day of the seven
was the Sabbath.
Rev. DR.. II. G. Mabie had paper,
"Change of Day" being the subject. He
quoted scripture to show that the Lords
day was changed by Divine direction
from the seventh to the first day of the
week.
Prof. q. P. JudsOn touched on the
practical question under the subject
'The Economic Value of the Sabbath"
Rev. r. Christie, of the House of
Hope Presbyterian church, st. Paul,
discussed the "Secular Advantages of
the Sabbath" His paper also was to
show the value of the Sabbath as day
for physical rest.
In the afternoon the attendance was
very large for mid-week convention.
The programme was varied consider
ably from the way it had been an
nOunced, but was very interesting
one.
Bishop Fitzgerald was the first speak
er. His subject was: 1.-The Church
and the Sabbath" The bishop spoke
briefly and to the point, as is his Gus
tom.
c. T. Thompson was the next speaker
and he dwelt on the state legislature.
''Fictitious Blue Laws" was Rev.
w. +. McKee's subject. DR.. Charles F.
Thwing, of Plymouth church, had
an argumentative paper on the Sab
bath and the Home.'' The closing
paper was by w. F. Crafts. secretary of
the American Sabbath union, New
York. The gentleman has long been
speaking on behalf of the Sabbath, and
has line of argument full of thought.
and convincing language. Besides this
he is good speaker. His subject yes
terday afternoon was the ''American
Sabbath"
While he would praise the power of
organization he would impress the fact
that individuality must not be over
looked. He told an interesting story of
a Syracuse man, who becoming i'm
pressed with the enormity of the evils
growing out of the cheap Sunday ex-
cursions from that city to Niagara,
wrote letter to Cornelius Vanderbilt.
LAS you go to your church Sunday, and
|, the fourth commandment is read,
and you are about to respond" it
said, ''think of the men whom you are
forcing to work, of careless dissipation
on the holy day that you are promoting
| in lives of young men and women;
ir1y oil f1,n hof vr1o from
/ it and eXclain, Lord, have mercy on us
and incline our hearts to obey" The
/ great railroad king answered, thanking
| him. and assured him the excursions
sho uld be stopped, and they were
Great results are possible by individual
/ work. As to organization it was no.
addition, it was multiplication.
+ A new idea in his address was that
every preacher should have two special
ties. With some let the second he tenn
perance, with others missions. and
many, he thought. should take up the
fight against Sunday dissertation. In
speaking of the work OF their union he
said it had two great, strong arms. The
right arm was to quicken and uphold
the spiritual Sabbath; the left arm was
a great deal of difference, he held, be-
tween the Christian and civil, OF,
as he termed it, American Sab
bath. However, the two must work
together. There were many laws in
the Bible that correspondent with civil
laws. While religion forbade the evils
as sin against God, the state forbade it
as crime against man.
He then made an open fight against
the opponents of the Blair bill. To the
objection of unconstitutionality, he
said there was quick answer for all
those who took the word of the supreme
courts. every one of which, he said, had
held Sunday laws to be constitutional.
A Sunday liberty for the one, that made
a Sunday slavery for the many, he said,
was the liberty they demanded.
In regard to the foreigners who came
into this country with the cry of liberty
he made happy illustration in Iiken-
ing them to Cambyses, the great Per-
sian conquerer of the Egyptians, who,
taking the sacred cats of that land. laid
them on the shields of his men and
marched through the land of the Nile,
conquering it with never blow. These
foreigners, taking our sacred word
liberty were penetrating the same
stratgem.
The strongest argument against the
Sunday law he said was in the con-
scientiOus Jews and Adventists, who
would be effected by it. These he liked
as 100 to 100000 who we're now equally
damaged by the Sunday toll.