The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-09


side. perpetual reminder that since
he is not keeping the Sabbath holy he,
not his master, must assume the respOn.
sibility? Is not the servant girl who
is compelled to broil, to bake and to
brew on Sunday that her mistress and
her family, oft with the preacher as
a guest, may dine well, living re-
buke?
"Get right with God" means more
than church going, it means love for
ones fellow man, it means to comfort
the sorrowing, to visit the sick, to lift
up the fallen, to feed the hungry and
clothe the poor. 1t means that lifting
the face to the blue arch of the skies
because of gratitude toward Him is
just as holy as the same gratitude be-
meath frescoed ceilings.
Have we not all known men who
went to church rain or shine, who
never allowed anything to interfere,
yet were destitute of true charity,
destitute of morality, selfish, possessed
Of greed and avarice, tricky in busi-
ness transactions? Truly We have.
On the other hand have we not
Known men, who went to church at
rare intervals, who were honorable,
trustworthy, true, who on Sunday
made it "holy" with tender thought
fulness for their families, who never
turned a man away hungry and above
all committed no intentional wrong
toward brother man.
Joaquin Miller, with his rude phil
osophy, says:
In men whom men denounce as ill.
l find so much OF goodness still;
In men whom men pronounce divine,
find so much of sin and blot,
! hesitate to draw the line
Between the two-where God has not.
Would it not be best for those who
would shut the worlds fair away
from those whose lives are one
perpetual toll, on Sunday, to care
fully and kindly consider that
never produces good re-
suits and instead of resorting to in
tolerance to wisely endeavor how best
to reach and influence those who will
iefy. not obey, and perhaps with song
and sermon in the great white City"
make Sunday beautiful to Him as
we'll as those who have within them
goodness still" even though no
.hurch roof shelters them.
And after that has been said let us
not forget that not all believers are
as to which day was meant
" the commandment. Recently the
Philadelphia Record published the fol-
owing:
at has pleased the bigots who seek
o convert the day dedicated to rest
md recreation into a period of peni-
entail gloom to call Sunday the
American Sabbath" This designa-
ion has been made rather from neces-
ity than from choice, since there is
title in this institution that resembles
he Christian Sunday. 1t is surely
rot the Sunday ofthe early Christians,
Ior is the Sunday of the Founder of
he Christian religion himself. 1t is
he Sabbath of the Pharisees, who de-
him as Sabbath-breaker be-
ause he did not conform to their rigid
of the day of rest. The
D-called American Sabbath which
igotry would establish in this land of
reedom has nothing in common with
he Joyous Sunday of Martin Luther.
o nine-tenths of the Christian world
he sabbatarian code is utterly repug-
ant. The only period in which it was ,
nforced in its letter and spirit was {
uring the brief rule of Puritanism in {
'ngland, which produced one Of the
reatest social and moral reactions {
YER experienced in the history of '
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