The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-03-09
SABBATH IN CHICAGO.
VIII THE FAIR CLOSE ON sUyDArsg
ayers OF tho Columbian Exposition to
Remember the Fourth Commandment.


from attending.
Rev. W. '. Tudor, d. D., recently elected
president Of the Alliance. presided. while
Rev. Drs. Hall Newton. Hoge. Cutler, Ian
drum. Turnbull and Kerr occupied seats on
the pulpit platform. DR.. Hall read Scrip
ture lesson and DR.. Turnbull offered prayer
The president then called on Mr.. b. NJ
Quarles. the secretary OF the Alliance. to read
those clauses of the constitution setting forth
the purposes II the Alliance.
Mr.. Tudor announced that as all present
were presumed 10 he Christian people they
were counted as members and invited to
participate IN the business of the meeting.
Dr. Kerr presented resolution of sympa-
thy IN the death OF Rev. Or. Peterkln, which
gracefully set forth his exalted character. use
fulness and ability. The resolution was unan-
imously adopted by a rising vote.
THE WORLDS FAIR.
The action of tho board of managers at a
meeting held just previous 10 the general
meeting WAS read by the secretary. They
adopted a resolution presented at the former
meeting providing for one lay member Of the
committee from each church in addition 10
the ministers. and another expressing their
opposition to the opening of the Columbian
Exposition on Sunday
Or. Tudor then made few very apprOpri-
ate remarks Introductory 10 the regular pro-
ceedings and paid a graceful compliment to
Bishop Randolph. who was expected but
could not come. Ia referring % the Chris
tian world he said: The fences were getting
low and the low fences invite us 10 step over.
There are compartments IN the ark 10 Is true.
but we are all floating on the one grand sea
of future happiness" He announced that DR..
Newton had at the last moment kindly con-
scented 20 take the place Of Bishop Randolph.
who could not be present. and would address
the audience on the Columbian Exposition
and the Sunday obseryances in connection
Herewith.
DIR. NEWTON.
Dr. Newton spoke forcibly and went direct
ly at the question. occupying only about
twenty minutes in tho delivery Of his address.
without going into more than mention OF
the various questions bearing on the subject
He based his opposition on the straight direct
law OF God. Thou shalt keep the sabbath
day and hallOw it, lie said where God days
have been most truly kept blessings have
rested, and where 1t has been kept the
least curses have rested. He sketched tho
religious life of our ancestors. and their moral
lives from the first colonies on through the
growth of the republic. And so on down TO
the present day, along with all the sin OF the
world there has come down from above
spirit of God and caused the observance Of
his Sabbath ordinances. Our country
OF 65.0OO.OOO OF souls, rs great as any the
sun ever shown upon. now invites the nations
Of the earth 10 come IN and look upon us.
Shall we present ourselves IN the best light;
all that is best in material things and little
better than barbarians In spiritual things:
We must present ourselves 10 the world as
Christian people whose fathers were religious
and who themselves are religious. The
hOrdes who come t. us from under
tyranny and oppression pine for lib
erty, and under our free Government
they think liberty is license. but II Is for u5
10 teach them what Is liberty. No state
church. no power of the sword, but a people
bound by a great religious bond. and we
should say 10 these men not only close these
gates, but give Us our holy Sabbath and
teach the world that we have God whom
we honor
I'VE will 90 from all over.the States so many
and so strong that we will cause these men 20
obey the mandate OF God and press forward
the work TO that end that no man in Chicago
shall sin without punishment more than any
where else.
BR. HoGE.
DR.. Tudor said that Dr. Newton's speech
had already raised the question TO a grand
sublimty. and introduced DR.. H0ge 10 the
audience as the Nestor of the Richmond
ministry Dr. Hoge spoke from a few meagre
notes and his address was replete with Origl-
nal thought and elOquence. aud the following
synopsis gives but faint idea of its
beauty. He commenced by saying: 1t
could never have originated in the mind
of man that one day should be kept by
man out of seven. Ii must have been
a divine thOught-a thought by one who
knew man and how TO provide for the welfare
Of his different wants. The Sabbath looks
like no other day. We think the light
sweeter and that there Is color resting on
the fields more beautiful than at times during
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our associations. Nature makes no difference
with Sunday from any other day. Man al
ready had the division of night from day as a
period of rest, and having II never thought OF
other division IL was q divine idea. Expert
ments have been tried 20 make some other di-
vision 10 meet the wants OF man butexperence
teaches that II is one day IN seven and II -
the wisdom Of God which shows us that men
may withdraw from the things that perish
with the rising.
THE GREAT PROP
ut is the great prop Of everything that is
good the basis. the column and the capital that
supports the great fabric of truth and right
eOusness. too.
There must be ways by which the truths
of life may be taught. The Christian Church
is one of these. Ii is the peculiarly Of
the Christian religion that It has IA set OF men
set apart 10 enforce these Christian truths on
the lcDIlt ~ 1VN NbAN ~ "A-.f ''-'N -
minister may do. take the work Of him whom
we now mourn tonight 4 pastor
whose term OF life has ended that he may
take a higher and better position IN the realm
above The most divine OF all the agencies
is the Christian Sabbath. IL You do
not have the Christian Sabbath how
can the Church do its work. the
beneficial enterprises be applied. the sacra-
ment given OF the people meet, Whatever IS
against the Sabbath Is against religion
itself Without the Sabbath you might
as well discharge your ministry and
turn your churches into factories. You
would destroy the greatest blessing IN
the world Think of the eleven n.llion OF
children being taught moral HE lnhdellty
cannot live IN the land rs long as the children
are taught Take away the Sabbath and you
take this away.
THE BASIS OF THE GOVERNMENT.
The Sabbath is the basis upon which the
civil Government rests Our Government
rests on morality and morality cannot exist
without the Sabbath, and therefore 1t has the
protection of the law
II. is often said you can't legislate men into
morality. II is the purest sophistry and am
clad TO have an opportunity To say lew
words on flis subject. Nlne-tentls of
all the statutes are maze Ter
tho uoholdng OF morality and
u,thont laws there would be no morality.
Law upholds virtue and protects those who
dssire virtue against those thet do not. Mi
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