The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-05-11

day. The choir sang "Gloria in Exc,
sis" from the Twelfth Mass, and L
Gushing read from the thirtieth chapt
OF Nehemiah, beginning with the t
teenth verse. The choir sang Hyu
No. 72, "Day Of Rest and Gladness."
Rev. Dr.. Gushing spoke a few wore
! introducing Rev. Dr.. George, sta
ing at the same time the positio
that be and his fellow workers in th
churches OF the city have taken with ri
gard to the Sabbath and its observance
DR.. George spoke frst OF the day as
day that all should be thankful fol
a blessing that all should thank
Christian ancestry for as an heiritag
greater than any other that is enjoyed a
their gift to a world; day OF rest 70
mind and body aud q day for beautiful
worship. "God made the Sabbath da
when He made the earth and observe,
It in the making OF the universe; II
chiselled 1t into the rocks OF Noun
Sinai; He commanded His son, Jesu
Christ, 10 observe it, and none havr
been more devoted to It's sacred ooserv
ance than He, and it has come down t.
us through long aud unhroken line o.
ChristiRns."
DR.. George does not look upon thu
Sabbath question as an economic ques
tion. 1t Is in his mind a matter io
Christian consideration; not merely I
civil Sabbath. He thinks these yer!
well in their places and he promises t
help even that kind Of q movement, bu
he looks upon the Christian Sabbath
movement as lar above any such CORsiS.
Grafton. "The laR Of the Sabbath, satt
DR.. George, "is law OF God, a divine
law, and it should be discussed from that
standpoint, for westand upon the law o.
God when we demand a proper observ'
ance Of the day."
THE EUROPEAN SABBATH.
"Let the people of this country riss
up and decide once and for all the ques
ton whether we arc to have Christian
Sabbath; a day OF rest aud peaceful
Christian pleasure, or what il known as
the Continental Sabbath. This is the
worst day OF the week on the continent
OF Europe. The day Is made the time
for all kinds Of improper pleasure. 1t
a sort OF Fourth OF July; a day lor
merrymaking and drinking and gaming.
This sort Of feeling towards the Sabbath
seeins to grow With wonderful rapidity,
too. 1t is crgrslting itself upon this
country very much more rapidly than
is well for the nation. In st. Paul, st.
Louis, Chicago and all through Califor.
mia and the Pacific slope the day is not
the peaceful, quiet Sabbath that il once
was and should be.
The Doctor began to enumerate the
things that tend to demoralize the Sab.
bath day by naming as the chief and
greatest, the Sunday mail service. he
said 1t was instituted about 1910, when
the news OF the war about to begin at
that time was wanted 80 badly that the
mails were run on Sunday to satiafy the
demand. After the war was closed the
work was kept up uninterrupted, and
has been going on ever since. He
thanked God that there was about to be
an effort made to arrest the work, and
he thought it would be successful. He
discussed the point whether the Sun.
day mail service is a necessity.
Ho said there is no Sunday mail serviCe
in London, none in Toronto, and there
are hundreds OF cities that do as much
business as any city in the United States
that have no Sunday mail service. To
show the absurdity Of the Sunday mail
service he divided the letters into three
classes. First, there are the letters OF
which include love letters,
ettcrs from fathers and mothers to sons
and daughters and vice versa. He did
not think these letters were OF import.
lnCe to keep 5000 men at work on
Sunday. Friendship and love that will
lot keep from Saturday night TIL Mon
lay morning is not worth having"
BUSINESS LETTERS.
The business letters were the next dis.
,ussed. Business he thinks Is carried
4 little too far. He respects and loves a
nan who is faithful to his line Of bust.
less and puts forth every effort to make
. success oft, but he did not think that
business should take preference OF the
welfare OF the business mans soul.
Suppose a busiaess man gets his letters.
He has a lot OF bills, bills Of lading, re-
ce;pts, orders for goods and the like,
ihinEs that he can no make no use OF
till Monday morning. He gets these
letters and reads them and eau do no
more till Monday morning. He can not
ship the goods that are ordered, he can
not answer the correspondence, and he
will not enter the receipts. Why might
be not as well leave these letters In the
office till he need thems?"
His third class OF letters are tho sick
letters, letters that notify some one Of
the sickness OF relative or friend.
These letters might end come excuse be-
lore the others, but he did not think
they were a necessity. Before there
wers any Sunday trains and Sunday
mail service there was no more sickness
and no more suffering. "Then again."
he said, "the friend can be notified by
telegraph the next day and the message
will reach It's destination quicker than
It would il it had been sent by mail the
day before"
Concerning the Sabbath trains be said
that II 1t was right Tor the United Statesto
conduCt ite mail aervice,it was Just as pro-
per for the trains 10 run, and il it was not
wrong Tor the trains al great corporations
to be in operation on Sunday 1t was no
more wrong for other kinds OF business
to be conducted on that day. He held
the first and highest power that recog.
nized the Sabbath as day OF labor as
responsible for the rest. He gave
q very dramatic and forcible de.
Bcription Of a Fort Wayne freight train
on 8 steep grade somewhere near his
home and told how 1t annoyed the peo.
pie in his church. Helikened it TO the
devil. 1t darkened the sky and threw
out flashes Of lightning and screaChed as
II in defiance Of God Almighty and all
his laws and commands, He tore to
pieces the excuse offered by She railway
companies that the Sunday trains are
run for the benefit Of those who care to
go to church on Sunday.
SUNDAY PAPEBs.
he criticized Sunday newspapers
and could find NO good in them. He
told Of paper that he had once known
Of that caught a great many Of the
M r;alton yaaHnra U,tih a ColunTI Of " at