The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-05

Rev. c. H. Strong breaches on the
Observance Of the S2bbllh.

he Sees No Objection TO Druggists
Selling Soda Water on sunday
Three Parts of the Human Nature
Which Require Rest and Recreation.
Rest and Recreation as Necessary
to the Body as TO the Soul.
Rev. Charles II. Strong Of ST. Johns
church preached one of his characteristics
strong and eloquent sermons yesterday
taking for his subject: The Observance
of the sabbath
issermou was peculiarly applicable just
al this time and under prevailing clrcum-
stances, and he spared no words in max
ing apt local references. He began his
sermon by defining and briefly outlining
the natural law and the civil law in this
connection, explaining the difference be
tween them, and showing how far in his
Judgment the civil law in regard to Sab
bath day observance should bear upon
and affect the natural.
The observance Of the Sabbath Mt the
present time, he said, is unsatisfactory
both TO irreliglous and religious people.
Every one in a community, he said, who
is not hardened i'm ways of evil, desires to
see the seventh day properly observed, but
the question is, how far that propricty in
its observance should 60
MIR. Strong told of an Instance he had
noticed IN one of the New York papers,
where an old apple woman who sold ap-
pies on Sunday at the foot of the Brook
lyn bridge. was turned out of
church for what her fellow
church members were pleased to call her
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was her only means of livelihood and she
had "a family Of children to support. BY
her sales on Sundays she Noted almost
enough to pay her rent. One of the men
VINO was foremost in urging her dismissal
from the church was keeper of a hotel
which was kept open for business every
day in the year. This he characterized as
narrow-minded bicotry 1t was carrying
the observance Of the Sabbath entirely
too far
Referring to matters nearer home. Mr.
Strong said it is perfectly right and it is
the duty of the civil government TO keep
closed all places of amusement or carOusal
on the sabbath day, which tends to lower
the standard of public morals or 90 inter
fcre with the peace Of the community
But he spoke Of the crusade against the
drug stores which sell soda water and
cigars on Sunday us an effort to rake up
and enforce the Old Sunday blue laws,
which have long ago fallen into disuse,
and which should long ago have been re
pealed. He did not discuss the motives
for enforcing such laws, but thought if
they were to be taken up and put into
force they should be enforced to the letter
until the public Gnds them so thoroughly
obnoxious that the people will clamor for
their repeal
Mr.. Strong discussed the three different
obserYances of the Sabbath day the jew
ish Sabbath, the Puritan Sabbath, and the
Sabbath as observed by the Christians TO-
day. The views in the latter case We're,
of course, the far more liberal With the
Christian there is body, soul and spirit
Soul is taken in the acccptation of the
old Greek term from which it is a trans
lation, meaning mind and intellect Hence
there are three different sides TO
the nature of a human being,
each of which demands its appro-
pirate rest and recreation. The soul and
the spirit should be satisfied on the day
tellectual recreation, while in other cases
IL Unnecessary especially with those who
do physical labor, that the body should
have rest and recreation. The preacher
said he saw nothing wrong in one taking
a drive or a short trip to the seashore
Sunday afternoon after having attended
religious worship in the morning
The sermon was an able one and full of
thought. 1t was a practical talk and
apace with the times. Mr.. Strong spoke
OF the bigOtry prevalent among many
classes of those protesting Christianity in
regard to this matter. His views are in
sympathy with thos of many others, and
they always carry weight with them.