The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-20
JOSEPH COOKS Plea.
Ho Makes q Strong Argument for
Sunday Closing.
WHAT The UNIVERSAL Law is.
Boston's Famous Divine Shows
Wherein tho Worlds Fair Might
Fail...Hc Dcclarcsthat All Christian
Nations Have Closed Their Exhibits
on tho Sabbath.

tho discourse OF tho Rov. Joseph Cook,
OF Boston, on Sunday and tho Worlds
Fair, Tho Rcv. Mr.. Cook launched
into his subject at once and said:
"The constitution OF tho United
States by two words protects the rights
OF tho President 10 ono days rest in
every seven, for in prescribing the time
when his duties shall DO performed tho
phrase Is used, Sundays excepted.
Now, maintain that every working.
man in tho republic ought to DO pro.
tcctcd in his right to ono days rest in
tho week.-mrs., we'll as the Presidents.
Those two words should be the germ
from which national rest law should
be developed. When the last Worlds
Fair was held in Paris, England COW
cred her exhibit on tho Sabbath, and
her example was followed by tho Eng
disappearing people generally, by our
Representatives. among the others The
continental customs wcre in this re-
spect disrcgardcd. At Philadelphia the
gates were closed and tho saleof whisky
forbidden. am hcre tonight to speak
against proposition that is an insult
to those who desire good government.
When the decaloguc was given the Sab
bath was not then proclaimed
FOR TIE FIRST TINE.
have great respect for an institution
which has lasted SO long. Sunday has
swung too, long on the waves OF time to
disappear. Do you think to abolish it?
Five thousand years have not been able
to do it. What does science say? There
is certain divine authority about
science. Physicians tcllrls that we can
do moro work when VIC rest one day in
seven than il we should work all the
time. Aman works OH Monday. He
begins work on Tuesday at little lower
level, and SO on through the week. He
loses more energy than he gains, but if
he rests on Sunday he rcgains the level
OF the previous Sunday. II he does not
he plunges into the work OF the next
week ut lower level, and finally breaks
down. "a
ut has been shown by experience
that it is better for working man to
work ten hours day for six days than
to work eight hours day for seven. To
turn now to the political! side. What
will happen in this country if you let
the saloonkeepers destroy our Sunday?
Somebody has well said, Liquor and
leisure never meet but for mischief"
Which shall 60 down-the Sabbath or
tho saloon? Little by little you will
secularize your Sabbath ii you do not
close your saloons. The annual number
OF murders has doubled within recent
years. How do account for it? BY
the failure to preserve the proper OBJ
servanco OF the Sabbath day and the
encouragement given, to saloons. The
government must not dictate religion
to any man, but it has right to MAIN
tain civic day OF rest. No government,
that does not maintain the Sunday laws,
is 4 friend Of the toilins poor. No
editor that does not support those laws
is friend to such. l think We could
get along without the Sunday news
paper. You say it has come to stay.
So YOU said about slavery, but tits gone.
THERE ARE YOUNG MEN
that wake up on Sunday morning with
no idea OF how they shall pass the day.
They spend it reading the newspaper.
The class OF people that stay away from
the church is constantly increasing, and
the Sunday newspaper is tho guide,
philosopher, and friend of that class.
Do you expect the pulpit to compete
with horse race or prize fighter Or
Sunday theatrical performance or Sun.
day newspaper by employing their
methodist Sunday papers make it more
and more difficult for the churches to
reach tho masses, and it will become in
creasingly difficult if you allow the Sab.
bath to be still further secularizcd.
"Now. what has the local committee
in Chicago done? They have given per-
mission to restaurants to sell wine, ale
and beer otter the fashion OF hotels?
Now, in, what attitude does this place
tho nationf@ The rum-sellers OF London
have lately scattered whisky on the
sidewalks in front OF their saloons, that
the fumes rising to the nostrils OF pass
crs-by might draw them inside. Is 1t
expected that the Goddess OF Liberty
will sprinkle the sidewalks OF the fair at
Chicago for the shallow reason that We
ought to treat foreigners as they
treat us?-
"You have in this country thirty-five
states requiring that instruction shall
be given to,thc children about the ma
ture and effects OF intoxicating drinks
and tobacco. These states have taken
an attitude that makes tho opening of n
national saloon IN insult to them; is an
insult to our churches also. Here are
four great denominations that exclude
liquor sellers from membership-Con-
gregationalists, Baptists, Methodists
and Presbyterians. When tho
CHURCHES ARE PROTESTING
by their thousands OF members shall
tho government persist in going into
the saloon business for the money there
is, in itp Shall we, in the face OF tho
danger, authorize tho government TO
open saloons?
who will have the final authority I?
The national commissioners, OF which
there aro two from oact state. & ills
upon theiryote that the question turns.
The churches should therefore petition
these commissioners to prohibit tho
selling Of. liquor and the Dissertation Of
tho Sabbath. Massachusetts and Ken
lucky have already passed resolutions
toikeep their exhibits covered on Sun.
day, what ever other states may do. I
am encouraged to believe that the
liquor trade will be outlawcd as we'll as
that slavery has been abolished and tho
Louisiana State Lottery suppressed.
You think that you can do nothing
Y about this question. Letus have some
backbone about the matter" =
Tho congregation by rising vote
passed resolutions recommending the