Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-06-14
HOW TO SPEND SUNDAY
HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS FROM LEADING THISA-
Frs OF TaE TINE
Different Ideas Of Rest-Adyiess From Jew, Gentle
and Aposas-wiss Words From Robert
Collysr-A Radical View.
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is one of great interest 70 the people
and 10 the Christina church. Ministers
of religion recognize that the majority
of people in nearly every city do not at
Tend puhlic worship. and the problem
presented by their apparent Indifference
has been the subject Of much thought
ful discussion What, besides praying
and going 10 church, may a Christian do
on the sabbath? The inquiry is full Of
interest for every man and woman in
sympathy with the spirit of progress.
In order 20 get clear and cOmpreheu-
sive idea of the meaning of Sunday OBJ
servance. from the standpoint of both
religious and secular thought, brief ar
ticles have been secured touching the
various phases II the subject, from a
number of prominent men. The articles
are presented below:
WISE WORDS FROM ROBERT COLLYER.
I love 20 think of Sunday rs the one
dav Inn seven which should answer truly
10 lis name in the way We use 10, If we
are wise. for rest and recreation and for
worship in some true aud noble sense.
But for rest first OF all. so that when
thedav comes round those who have TO
work hard AN the week should just sit
still and rest them. This is the chOic-
est boon Sunday can bring to the tired
hand and brain. Ii was the decree OF
the first CariStian emperor that Ihe only
work doneon this day should be TO free
the slave: aud when we take
note how huShed and still the great
toiling world is on sunday, the good
day makes the old decree take on
new meanings and shine with still
fairer light. Sunday is especially the
workinrman'S day. It's the one day in
the seven when the house becomes his
home and those that dwell there his
choicest and best company. There may
be scant time for the good home spirit
10 play among them on other days, but
when sunday comes the clouds lift with
the burden OF toll and care, the family
life is made whole and wholesome once
more. and the recreation OF the house
hold comes. Luther, the prince Of the
reformation, says: If we observe
Sunday the reason should be not
because Moses said We must, but be-
cause nature said we must" Many great
teachers and eXpOunderS of the Mosaic
law would have nothing TO do with the
narrow aud bigoted bondage into which
their own race had fallen, but said the
sabbath should be a day OF Joy and de-
light. 1t should be a festival and not 4
fast or q time for "a cold bite" as we
saw. A day when people should wear
their best robes and meet in zach others
homes 10 break bread after the service.
While so far from its being a day in
which you must do no manner OF work,
they said 10 was far better that a man
should work on the Sabbath, if he must,
rather than depend on others for his
bread. This was the way the nObleSt
and most literal thinkers held the Sab
bath day who still believe it had been
made sacred by Divine enactment;
sacred 10 freedom, not 10 bondage, TO
rest and recreation and the worship OF
the Most High.
So stand by the churches and the
worship 10 which Sunday opens the
wav. aud know of no recreation quite so
sacred and true when l put my heart
into il, no matter whether one stands IN
the pulpit or sits In the pew. But this
bars out no love or loyalty TO other re-
creations that can come and should
come hand and hand with the rest and
worship on good Sunday.
Rest is the prime factor in our sun
day and helps to put oack the balance
of power into the workers own hands
which during the six days has passed
into the hammer, the engine, the types
and the pen. So that the strong hberS
of his nature are touched again, As
our wise woman says, and If there is
good stuff i'm him ambition changes
once more into energy and the
muscles move better when the
rested spirit makes merry music. IL
was observed by true traveller In
France also some years ago now that
spirit Of gloom had come over that sunny
hearted race and a bitter temper, among
the workingmen especially, while ne
traced the root Of il 70 the fact that
they had almost lost track of their Sun
day. l thought OF this myself on the
first Sunday / ever spent in Paris when
counted over thirty separate sort OF
wOrkmen Is hard at work between my
hotel and the church as il IL was a week
dav. And l thought it again six years
after when the fair city was Strewn with
smoking ruins kindled by the Commune
and again when l counted the dead
over there a short time ago. Those
workingmen had grown even more
bitter and Sullen at their
tasks week day and Sunday, and
then the time came when the iurleS
broke loose. The terms of their lives
gave them no fair and reStful Sunday.
And this was no doubt one reason why
they were driven aud are still driven 10
this savage aud ruthless work.
This question of Sabbath day or Sun
day is clearly a question then 10 be set
tied bv each man for himself with no
reference at all 10 what the priests and
churches may say about Moses and the
rest of the old trouble. And as Bishop
HorSeley said long ago: This should
DE done without any interference OF any
man with another or the authority oil
the state" 1t is my day and yours, !
say again, set apart by common consent
for rest, for recreation and Tor worship,
and i'm answer 10 a great general need
OF our nature for these three blessed
things. RoBEHr ColLNEN.
RABBI GOTTHEu'S VIEW OF SUNDAY.
..How TO call the sabbath delight"
Isaiah -, n.
All the English speaking peoples love
quiet Sunday. no matter what theil
belief may be concerning its origin ano
Sanctity. Typical Of this love IS what
Or. Edward Emerson tells OF his great
father. When his boy once ratified his
10Y drum on sunday, he came out OF
his study aud bid him hush, saying; 81
never heard such q noise in my parents
house on the Sabbath and this the
man who renoUuced the Christian min
iStry because be could not connect any
religious sentiment with "eat,ug anc
drinking the Lords supper" i; IS ori
of respect for this feeling that recon-
mend 20 my people 10 abstain ilom