Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
How they Observe the s'Sabbath
Law I'm the Bluegrass Re-
gt0n.

| have told you once before that
there was no such thing as a Sab
bath or Lords day" or anything
akin to either of these, in the
Christian religion. Sunday and
Monday, or MONDAY, were the
two days set apart by the heather
for the worship of the sun and
moon. One of the things tor
which the Jews killed Jesus was
that he would not keep the sab
bath.
Even if the Sabbath had been
a part of the Christian religion it
would be contrary to the Consti
tuition of the United States to
make a law enforcing a sabbath,
because that constitution does not
allow religion to be enforced by
law. Thomas Jefferson and Tom
Pane and Ben Franklin, who
made that constitution were all
infdels, and they did not take
any religion in theirn.
Some time ago you know told
you about a big ball. or "hugging
MATCH" that the Christians had in
the Opera House in Lexington to
raise money for church charity.
They said that old way of laying
by in store as God had prospered
you like they used to do in the
Apostolic times may have done
we'll enough for those old snoozers,
but it was too slow for this age OF
steam and electricity, so they got
all the pretty girls in town and
got them to dress awful low in
the neck, and all of that part OF
the feminine anatomy circumja-
cent to the neck, and they made
the fellows pay their money at the
door, with the understanding that
they had right to see all they
could see and hug all they could
hug after they got into the circus
The array of silks and satins
and dry goods with foreign names
diamonds and fuss and feathers and
flubdubbery was enormous.
Since then they have under
taken to raise some more money
for Christian charity. The
scheme was stupendous. 1t was
advertised all over the country
They got out a program of the
great charity entertainment, or
the back of which was fine en-
craving of one of our society
ladies giving a big silver dollar to
a famous little beggar girl, the en-.
craving being from a photograph
Of the lady and the girl. 1t looks
SO natural, you know, TO see oul
fashionable ladies stop on the
street and give dollars to little
beggars.
When the great charity show
was over, so far from there being
a single nickel to give to the poor
the expenses of the show wer'
$4,000 more than was taken in it
and now the principal manager o
it who thought he was going t.
get a lot of cheap glory, is mad a
all the others because they arr
leaving him to pay that $4,000
The managers of this Chart,
show comprised prominent churcl
people from all the churches il
this city.
This Christian charity show
was advertised to consist princi
pally of running deer and foxe
and Texas jack rabbits, with dogs
in the large enclosure in front o
the grand stand on the fai
ground.
They had two old deer ant
sent them out to Dog Fennel, nea
me, to fatten. One of them brok'
his leg, and something happened
to the other one, and they didn'
show up. The Texas jack rab
bits did not get here; so it de
volved upon one old fox to max
all the amusement for the peopl
who had paid their half dollar t.
see the show.
The fox was superannuated ant
rheumatic, and as they ha'
kept him fastened up 81
long and failed to wrap VI
his legs in red flannel and 81