The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-11-16

full commonplace to the man. The
latter, however, neither spoke nor
moved an eyelash. The remark was
repeated, but still there was no au-
swer. Mr.. Williams, believing the
man TO be deaf and dumb, turned ~
inquiring look ON the wife.
Whats the matter?" he asked.
"Oh, said she, hes got no time to
talk. Every minute is precious TO him.
All that lot of uppers has got TO be fin
ished by 10 tonight, and took back,
and then he'll bring me and the little
uns q bite of food. If he wastes even
| five minutes TO jaw, maybe he'll be too
late TO deliver the work, and we ii have
nothing to eat afore tomorrow, unless
| take half o. my work back.
| She spoke euncomplainingly, as if such
a state Of things were quito to be ex-
pected. When her own sewing was
hurriedly finished she drew quick
breath of relief, wrapped the waist
coats in ragged bit of paper, slipped
an old shawl over her head and hastened
out, still in silence, to carry home her
work.
Did the wretched family ever have
time to speak2 It almost seemed as
If dead silence were there the rule of
life.
And in face of worldwide facts like
these there are men who write about
the workingman's desire to see the
wheels of this big world move round
seven days in seven, and pose as his
champion in every effort made to break
his Sabbath's 8 rest.
Second-We do not hesitate to ac-
knowledge-and hasten to add that
we are glad of it-that in this con-
fict ecclesiastical tradition has failed
to make out case. We have not got
Sabbath because we have the Ten
Commandments. This commandment
is merely the first crude translation on
stone of the great law that had existed
from the eternities. Our Sunday does
not rest on the commandment letter of
the Jewish ritual. If so, we celebrate
the wrong day and utterly fail to fulfill
the letter of the law. The Sabbath of
the Mosaic ritual is our Saturday. No
man who knows anything about the
subject has ever disputed it. We do
not keep the Sabbath day because we
are commanded in SO many words to
keep a specific day.
WHY WE KEEP THE SABBATH.
We keep the Sabbath day because it
is our privilege God given and
Christ given one-of resting one day
in seven. THE Sabbath was made for
man," said Jesus. 1t was Gods gift
of love to his tired children. The Sab
batarian zealot who would restore the
Journalism of pharisee's Sabbath is
the enemy of Jesus Christ, for he is the
follower of them who slew him.
Nor is the man who would restore
the gloom and the absurdity of the
early Puritanic Sabbath in this day any
less the enemy of true Christianity.
The life of our stern ancestors, while il
had elements of heroic strength, had
about it's religion a narrowness, a big
otry and meaness that it were better tc
forget than seek to perpetuate. Listen
In book in which Jonathan Trunbul
recorded the minor cases he tried a:
: justice of the peace is this entry: "Hii
|, Majesties Tithing man entered com
plant against iona. and Susan Smith
/ IlldJ Ou Illt lIOIN . NldO NlNll
service, they did smile" They were
: : found guilty, and each was fined 8 shil
lings and costs. But it was the "smal
boy" whose behavior in the meeting
. house provoked the Puritan elders Il
groan in chorus, "Foolishness is bount
in the heart Of child"
The boy behaved badly because h,
. was seated with other boys, instead o
o with his father and mother in a family
pew. They were herded together OF
the pulpit and gallery stairs, and tith
, ingmen and constables were appointed
: = to watch over them "and see that the.
behave themselves comelie and us
such raps and blows as meet.
In one parish it was ordered in tow
meeting that there be some sticks Sc
up in various places in the meeting
: house and fit persons by them and t.
= = use them"
4 1t is this spirit carried into the inter
probation of Scripture that has done 81
! much hurt to the cause of Christ, as i
!, has fingered as a strange discord in tn
= light and harmonieS Of modern life.
: From Waterville college in 1888
z. graduated II young man whose mothe
. had designed him for the ministry
But he refused to enter it. One Of tn
" professors in Waterville, on u certain
occasion, delivered a sermon in tn
= = chapel, in which he claimed that non
u but the elect could be saved; that o
y protesting Christians not more than on
u in hundred could reach heaven, an
!. that heather people would have NOR
y consideration Of the Almighty IN th
future life than men of Christian nj
> tions who hear but do not profit by tll
! word of God. The rules of the colleg
. made attendance upon religious serN
Ii ices in the chapel compulsory. AftC
this sermon the young man pctitT0ne
: to be excused from further attepdGnC
. on these services, giving as II reaso
Il that, according to the proportion STATED
!, not above six persons in the colleq
= could be saved, and as there were nil
= = worthy professors, all of whom wcl
u doctors of divinity, it would be pr,
! sumption for him to hope for salvation
and therefore in attending church
:; was only making damnation the MOI
y sure and terrible.
u The name of that young man WI
Benjamin F. Butler.
u Form and ritual and tradition an
l. ceremony may be one thing and Chri
+ tianity another, as the following adve
A - l.