Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-25

the same thought in mind, and of this I
believe every thoughtful student will be
thoroughly convinced that however wise
and humane and timely may have been the
laws which from time to time have been
promulgated by the worlds most renowned
legislators, it has been found simply i'm
possible to so legislate for future genera
tions that important notifications, or ab-
solute repeal of those laws will not become
necessary with the advancement OF society.
What the Pharisees particularly dlsilked In
Jesus Christ was his disposition to disregard
their fne-spun interpretations and absurd
refuements of law which betokened q spirit
utterly alien to that gospel of peace and
love which he had come to proclaim.
tsTheir ceremonial observances, which
they valued so highly, he swept aside as SO
many cobwebs obscuring the light which he
had come to let in on mankind. Those
laws were all right in their time, but they
REQUIRED notification, and without waiting
tor their formal repeal He nulllhed them
without the slightest scruples.
The Way of Sensible People.
Sensible people have been following the
example of the great Master from that day
to this. They have stood up for the en-
forcement of all good and wholesome laws
at all times, while they have been alive to
the fact that conditions change with the
growth of society and the advancement OF
civilization, and they have therefore recog-
nized the propriety of adapting the laws to
the new conditions, of modifying them to
suit the requirements, or of suffering them
to fall into finnocuous desuetude,' without
once imagining that they had violated any
of their conscientious obligations.
"Within recent period talk has been
INDUCED in of enforcing certain laws which
have lain dormant for a long period, laws
which bear upon the observance OF the
Lords Day. Now [ concede to no one
higher reverence for this holy day than
myself entertain; I am prepared to do all In
nv power to maintain its sanctlty. 1t is on
this verx account that 1 protest against
such extreme and irrational methods as
will most surely result in its ultimate dis
honor. L feel as certain, as 1 do that
the tides will ebb and flow tomorrow as
they have been doing through infinite ages,
that blind and unreasonable enforcement
of Sabbath laws, without taking into ac-
count the fact that times have materially
changed since such laws were enacted, will
eventually issue in their utter notification
or total repeal, and when that consumma-
tion is brought about by the misguided
friends of the Sabbath, they will then know
to their sorrow and dismay what 'Contl-
mental Sunday really implies.
Sunday Papers Here to Stay.
GAS to the publication of Sunday papers,
whatever may be your opinion or mine on
the subject, this much I feel assured OF,
that the Sunday paper will continue to be
published, despite the protests of anybody,
and will be defended by very large class
in the community, and read by regiments
and brigades of Christian professors. In
the meanwhile, instead of wasting our
ammunition in the vain endeavor to suppress
them, would it not be the part of wisdom to
so bring the influence of the church to bear
upon those who publish them that they
NAV be converted into agencies for the ad-
vancement of that truth which is destined
in Gods good time to drive back all error
and flood the world with the light and glory
which shines from the throne of the great
King of Kings?"