The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-09

moral law No Sabbath observance resting on
convenience, or pleasure, or the aesthetic TASTE
Or even our physical or moral we'll being, can
bring the conviction we need. We must have
Sabbath whose bssic authority rests on the WORD
OF God, If We .are 10 bind the average con-
science so a. to be felt--fe.t as conviction and
acknowledged in the conduct OF life."
The arousIng OF the Christian conscience
should be followed by the creation OF public
sentiment. Not only the church must have lis
conviction but tie community al large must De
brought into sympathy with those convictions
if they are to be carried out. We want Sab
bath sentiment In the community rs well as q
religious conviction in the church for the proper
observance OF the day. To this end the people
must be educated regarding the claims o. the
Sabbath. The physical and moral benefits OF the
day must not be overlooked. II man was
only beast OF burden one days rest
in seven is needed. Experience has proved that
longer life and more and better work is accom-
plished when the master gives his cattle their
sabbath rest. But man Is more than beast OF
labor, and Tor the development OF his higher
nature he must have his seyenth-day oreaE IN
his tresdmill round. 1t is a TACT that should De
emphasized that the grandest Development OF
manhood is found in those countries where the
Sabbath is held most sacred. We must preach
sermons and give lectures and scatter literature
that shall inform the people regarding ths
moral and physical benefits of proper ooser'-
alce of the day. The benefits OF the CHRISTIAN
Sabbath supported by the free word OF GOD may
be we'll illustrated by two maps OF the world.
Let the countries where there IL the truest
liberty, the noblest and pursst manhood and
womanhood, the highest intellectual attain
ments, together with the greatest material pro-
gress be represented white, ana as these press.
t1gs decrease let the colors grow darker Until
the lowest In this scale of civhizatlon snaii 10
LETT black. Then draw another Map anu tneee
.t.s, C~Ik .t, 10 1,Sf NJ.
supported by free Bible make whits, ana as
the sabbath is not 50 well observed, ara tns
Bible suppressed, color darker, until you reach
the Sabbathess land that has no word OF 4oo'
which should be black. Compare the two nlaps
and you will find them nearly alike. EXchanse
OF titles would not much affect the accuracy OF
the maps That truest ibsrty is consistent Win
and follows Sabbath Observance may be SHOWN
from history. The men who have given their
lives for human liberty, as rule, have peen
those who have held one day In seven sacred 10
rest and worship. 1t was Cromwell, with MS
Sabbath-keeping Puritans, that fought En-
glands battles for civil and religious nperly'
while the Sabbathless loyallsts fought TOR the
despotism OF the king. 1t was the Sabbath
keeping Pilgrims who battled with cold and
famine and the wilderness to lay the Iounda-
tons of q government whose cornerstone
should be the equal rights Of all.
For the blighting effects on personal liberty OF
q Sabbathless land we need only call attention
to the ignorant, blundering, insane, suicidal
efforts OF the Sabbathless communists OF CONT
mental Europe, whose abuse of liberty is forcing
their governments TO an abrdgement OF the
freedom the people already enjoy that the
state may be saved from oralnless.
conscienceless, destructive anarchy. "Leveling
all days to one plane prepared the way for Inc
attempt to level all men TO one plane, that the
Industrious might have no more than the Idle,
md tnA rutu for hcst
fools"
Let such facts be presented to the people as
among the reasons for civil as we'll as religious
Sabbath. Bring home to the intellect the iac's
OF physical aud moral we'll being dependent on
the Sabbath will bind the conscience Win
religious conviction and you will have a Sab
bath sentiment then that will secure anu sup
port all proper Sabbath laws.
Right sentiment and Christian conviction
should cuminate In righteous law. But the
object of that law should be rightly explained.
We should not permit ourselves to be misrepre'
sented. The enemies of the Sabbath are max
Ing every effort to have our position on SUNDAY
laws misunderstood. We are charged with
"seeking to abrldge the liberties OF the people,"
"to make people religious by law" "to compel
men to attend church," "to unite church and
state" "to discriminate against secularists aud
foreigners''-in fact, there seems no limit 10
their charges. These charges should not go I'M
answered The fundamental idea of the law
should ever be kept TO the front, "the securing
to the people the right Of one day in seven As u
day of rest and worship" All that
the law can do is to protect
the people in this right. Law in its purpose can
do no more-it ought to do no less. Other
results may follow; they will, tor no law, more
than any man. liveth to Itself alone A law to
protect the people in their right to the Sabbath
as day of rest and their privilege to worship
nx,j ,.,jN To- hos rpofi Sn n
the Sabbath that interfere with these rights II
the laboring man Is to have his Sabbath rest the
capitalists must close his mills His right to
the day of rest will close the business OF his
employer that irterferes with that right. A lazy
to protect the people in their day OF rest will
suppress those recreatious on the Sabbath that
interfere with that rest. II the lsboring man is
to have his Sabbath, then the pleas
ure seeker must give up those pleasures
that require the Sunday labor OF others to pro-
vide. The law that compels him to do this is
not g religious and civil law. 1t is not for the
purpose Of advancing religion, but protecting
civil rights. 1t is not o suppression of his lib
erty any more than all rights Of his neighbor
suppress his liberty; ones liberty always ends
where his neighbours rights begin. II does not
tell him how he shall employ his time; it does
not compel his worship; it simply says it must
be in some way not TO interfere with his neigh
boris rights. Neither the capitalist nor the
pleasure seeker, or even the laborer, is COM
PEELED by law to attend worship. They are
simply commanded so to observe the day not
to interfere with others rights. Such laws
are just They are consistent with truest
liberty. They should be enacted and en-
forced. The god of the country iustities
the request. We ask it not as a concession to
our religious opinions; we demand il as pro-
lection to our civil rights. To propagate our
views we appeal to reason; TO protect our rights
we appeal to law. Let not be driven from
this position By the enemN The laboring men
and the Christian citizen have rights
which greed and lawiessuess and giddy thought
lessness should be made to respect. Because we
have an element, largely foreign born, who de-
mand the customs of continental Europe grated
on our American institutions III the name OF
liberty, is no reason why we should yield. Says
Bishop Potter, OF New York: at is as utter an
impertinence for the Freedman or German, for
the Jew or the Mohammedan TO come here de-
manding that we waive the customs and repeal
the laws that halI0w our Lords day, as that
we should surrender our language for
the dialect of the Black Forest or
our marriage relations for the domestic usages
OF the sultan" Let then maintain our
American Sabbath, and If our friends from over
the sea do not like our customs we shall make
no law to bind them 10 stay. They will fad at
least this much OF freedom, freedom to leave.
But let Us not forget the many who are not Of
this class who will give us their support Let
u prepare the way for righteous law by arous-
ing the Christian conscience; let Us in every
legitimate way educate the people regarding the
benefits of Christian Sabbath that we msy
have public sentiment in favor Of right laws.
Bradstreet's agency report. twenty seven fail
ures IN the Pacific coast states and territories
for the last week.