The Newtown bee., 1892-06-17

OF tue young. WueTeVeT euc DlplS IS held in honor, there you will find the de- sire for education to prevail much more decidedly, than where the Bible is cast aside and scorned. Then, as Christians, an obligation in the fullest moral sense rests upon us, to stand firmly for the moral teaching from the Bible in our schools. But this will be no easy task. It will require much moral courage to meet the frown and scoffing of the un- godly age and the infidel tendency of our day. We therefore need the exhortation of our text, "Quit yourselves like men and fight" That is, be men of principle, men of honor, men of truthfulness and integrity, men of righteousness, so that political ehicanery and ignorance shall find no place in your community. Be men, to stand for the right, even though you must stand alone; use all your influ- ence to make the necessity for general education felt in the community, and, if need be, use the arm of the law, which is your duty as citizen having the well fare of the State at heart.
 Another powerful enemy to morality and our American institutions is Sabbath dissertation. Through immigration, the coming to this country of millions who have never known the moral and elevat- ing power of holy Sabbath, and, there fore, have no higher conception of it than mere pleasure day. Then the dis regard of Sabbath laws, divine and hu- man by the liquor traffic, with the con- nivance at this disregard of law by our pot house politicians, all tend to destroy might have.
 Add to this, the loose views that the Christians and semi-Christians are es- pousing, and you have strong tendency to demoralize the community. You oft en hear the expression, "You cannot make men religious by laws" Very true :; but there is need of law, to keep men within the bounds of civil and moral re- sponsibility. We should not claim to be wiser than God, who gave very strong Sabbath law, and enforced it, with the penalty of death, to the man who wan tonly and willfully transgressed this law. We do not believe that this law was giv- en so much for the day, as for the nor al influence that the observance of the day would have on the nation. As our Saviour saith, "The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. :" You will find the moral uprightness of any peolpe to rise or fall with their re- gard for the sanctity of the Sabbath. Men who have no regard for the Sabbath will soon have little regard for virtue or chastity. You may sometimes find a man, who has been brought up with the principles of the Sabbath, drift away and become indifferent to the duty of Sabbath observance and yet maintain high nor al character for himself, but his children and the community in which he may lead will slide rapidly down in the scale of morality and so with nations. It needs but little reading of history to see this.
 Just at this time, strong efforts are be- ing made to break the national record in regard to the Sabbath, in opening the Worlds Fair on that day and so make it a day of license and drunkenness. There is pretended plea that they purpose to do this in behalf of the laboring classes. But this is false; the laboring class has not asked it, for they need and want their Sabbath. But some of the mana gers, urging the proposition to open the fair, said that they thought it necessary, in order to make more and meet their ex- penses This, think, is the true secret. It is mercenary greed, melted and helped on by Satan, in order to break down our national Sabbath. Many of our public officials seem to be willing tools of his Satanic majesty, in setting before the people disregard for Gods holy day, in making it day for travel or political scheming, etc. Therefore the times call loudly to all Christian people to awake to full sense of the danger that threat ems us, if this flood gate of immortality and ungodliness shall be opened through the greed of the managers and their pan dering to the will of the vicious.
 feel that all Christians and moral peo- pie should refuse to patronize the fair, if iG shall be given thus into the hands of the ungodly. You may say that this would be very great self denial and sac- rifice on the part of Christians and the better portion of our community. Very true, but did not our fathers and broth CTS make great self:denial and sacrifice when they left their homes and went forth to suffer and die for the welfare ot their country and shall we hesitate to stand for the moral institutions of our country because the enemy comes in another form and with ether weapons?
 Shall we quit ourselves like men, shall we be men, if we are unwilling to make sacrifice to uphold principle and the mor- al welfare of our country? Although God may restrain His anger for a time, yet we may be sure that His judgments will find us, as certainly as they did Is- rael of old when they neglected and dis regarded His Sabbaths. Therefore this disregard of Gods holy day will not on- ly open wider the flood gates of all iniqui- ty, but will bring upon us the just judg- ments of holy God.
 NOW, us CHrlSGians, we musG llSnC tnlS tendency to Sabbath dissertation by our own example, making it to us holy day, day of religious delight, Isaiah LVIII, 13, seeking by our life and influence to check the tendency to make it mere pleasure day. Then we should as citi- zens call into service the precepts of the law that the unprincipled may be kept within the bounds of good order. But, if you ride for pleasure and visit on the