St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-22
THE PEOPLES SABBATH.
Rev. 8. w. Sample Tells What 1t
Should Be.

The Lyceum continues to be popular
place of resort for Sabbath evenings,
and Rev. Samples ability to entertain
seems to know no diminishing. He
spoke last evening to a crowd that was
only less by a part of the "nigger
heaven" than the great concour5e at the
mass meeting of Sunday ago. THE
Peoples Sabbath" was his theme. After
tracing down the history of the Sabbath
institution from the time of Moses, who
he thought was deserving or some latter
day consideration for the part he played
in founding it II for no other reason, he
came down to the consideration of the
theme in its relation to the modern
affairs of men. Chief of these, in the
light of recent events, was the Sunday
saloon issue, a matter on which Rev.
Sample has thus far given no taste of
his temper. He believed in the stricL
enforcement of the laws. he said.
the executive of city should have no
power to use his personal discretion in
rigid enforcement of it would soon ere
ate sentiment which would compel its
speedy repeal. The law, he declared,
should defend the Sunday against
greed. Its mission was to defend the
rights and interests OF the people.
Plutocracy, monopoly, the saloons,
needed no law to protect their rights.
And in this connection the peoples
rest day was a thing that should
be protected from the hands of
greed. Moreover, the law should
protect the people against the saloons.
The saloon was nuisance that was tol-
Grated. 1t was here on sufferance only,
and in no position to ask favors. It
would be done away with in time, and
until then it should be kept under coll
troll by the law. AS for the Sunday
saloon, experience proved that it was a
foe of Su nday rest, and should not be.
Still, If allowed to go on in its greedy
course, he thought it might be good
thing In that it would hasten the march
of public sentiment to tile point where
the saloon would be driven out entirely.
He left no room for doubt, how
ever. that i'll his own mind the
Sunday saloon above all others was an
unmitigated nuisance and should be
stamped out. AS for the Sunday thea
ter he would draw no Sunday lines.
Any performance suitable to any other
day III the week was ali right for Sun
day. The worlds fair he would have
open on the Sabbath as we'll. On this
point he could not agree with his evan
gelical brethren that it would be an in
suit to God.
For his part, he thought there was a
good deal of preaching, particularly
that which advocated an eternity of
punishment as part of the carica-
ture of Gods institutions, that was
an insult to God, but he wasn't going to
ask to have it stopped by law. A more
preferable way, he thought, would be
to compel every preacher whose creed
taught that to preach it. He believed
that would hasten the time when it
would be put away forever. 1t was not
possible for the state to define what was
duty to God, and yet, in demanding the
closing of the worlds fair Sunday, the
people were doing just that. The
worlds fair was to be great educa-
tional institution, and for that reason
alone should be open every day of the
season. More than that there
was the second worlds fair to
be in Chicago in 1898, the
DEVILS worlds fair. the saloons, the
gambling bells, the brothels, were all
uniting with the godly people in the
agitation for Sunday closing. They
wanted the day for their own Obstructed
use. 1t was an established maxim in
war to do what your opponent doesn't
want you to do, and the rule would ap-
ply in this instance, but the people do
as the foes of the saloon would not
have them do. Let the worlds fair be
open seven days in the week, aud six
hours in the day. -