The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-19
RELIGIOUS.
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II WORKINGMANS SABBATH.
Wolves in Sleeps Clothing Shallow
Pretenders-The Sabbaths of the
Pharisee' and Purit4n-The Lords
Day-Why it is Sacred.
Pulpit Review of Current Events by Rev. Thos.
Dixon, Jr., for Sunday, My 3, 1891.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., preceded
his sermon this morning by the follow
ing review of current events:
1t is curious to note the socialistic
trend of all modern thought. 1t mat
tiers not from what source the discus
sion may take it's rise, it is certain to
mingle in the flood of a world vide
social propaganda before it's force is
spent. A distinguished English states
man and thinker has recently said :
I'VE are all socialists now" We are
all socialists. The capitalist who fights
the laborer is combining to defeat
competition. He cannot open his
mouth on any great economic prob
lem, and not play into the hands of
the social refOrmer before he shuts it.
The Conservative Government of Great
Britain seeks to outbid the Liberal
minority in it's efforts to advance the
interests of the laboring masses Re
ligious questions are to-day interviewer
with the great social question. The
social question is in itself a great re-
ligiOus question.
THE FOR MAN
The observance of the Sabbath turns
now not on the Mosaic law, but on the
interest of the wOrkingman. And this
is a profoundly religious turn in it's last
analysis. It has brought the question
back to Christ and His work and words
for readjustment. 1t has brought the
whole subject back to Christ's sum-
mary-"The Sabbath was made for
man, not man for the Sabbath" By
IMAM Christ meant the human race
in it's broadcast sense-mankind. The
workingman is "man"-mankind.
They are the people. Christ Himself
was of this mass. He was the Gear
penter's Son." He delighted to call
Himself the ''Son of Man" The agi-
tator, who presents his argument in
the name Ofthe workingman, hasreally
discovered the true foundation of the
sanctity and devinity of the day
namely, that it was made for MAN.
THE
There are hundreds of humbugs and
swindlers that hasten to present their
specious plea in the sacred name of
"Man"-the wOrkingman. Every
scoundrel who seeks to turn Sunday
into a little hell on earth tries this
argument. With loud mouth and Wig
Orous breath he advocates the claims
of the workingman. Every fakir who
wishes to shuttle his cards for the bene-
fit of the greenhorn desires freedom to
d~esecrate this sacred day in the name
of the workingman. The gambler
wishes to run his faro bank and race
course for the same reason.
SUNDAY BASEBALL.
The gangs of beer that
disgrace the national game under the
management of a second-rate organ
i%zatiOn, hold their boisterOus orgies on
Sunday in the name of the poor work
ingman. Sunday excursions all fly
this flag. The fisherman bats his hook
on Sunday in the sacred name of labor.
The men who seek to utterly destroy
man, soul and body, demand this. ad-
ditional day in which to damn him.
They demand it in the name of the
"workingman." The only working
man benefited is the swindler who
works his jaw-bone for the benefit of
home industry, in securing this de
mand.
THE sunday SALOON.
SIX thousand hell holes called saloons
are kept open on Sunday in New York,
IN the name of the workingman. The
saloon is the one curse of the working
man. Through it's allurements he dis
sipates manhood, money, life. 1t
utterly blasts his whole being, mental,
moral, social, domestic, political. 1t
burns up his brain. 1t drags him down
into ruin and crime. It units him for
his work. 1t blasts his home, kills
his wife, brutalizes and p~auperizes his