The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1893-02-18
THE SABBATH.
A Society to be Organized in Ken
lucky, Similar to Other States
to Maintain Sunday as
Day Of Rest.

was in the city this week to effect an
organization of society for the pre-
servation of the American Sabbath.
On Sunday morning Mr.. George adj
dressed the congregation of the
First Presbyterian Church on the
object of his visit. He announced
that DR.. Blayney, the pastor of the
church, had been selected as the
vice-President of the organization
for Kentucky. Though Senator
Hawley, he said on the floor
of the Senate, had stated that
100000 of the people Of the
United States had petitioned for the
closing of the Worlds Fair on Sun
day, the tremendous opposition to
that request brought to bear upon
Congress had aroused the Christian
people of a number of the States to a
sense of the necessity to organize
and provide means and influence to
counterfeit this opposition, if they
hoped to overcome the dangers that
such a dissertation Of the Sabbath
threatened to entail upon the people
of this country. He said that put
ting aside the Divine command to
observe the Sabbath, the physical
nature of man demanded the rest
which millions now were forced to
deny themselves by reason of the
Sunday mail, Sunday trains and Sun
day newspapers. Such enterprises
he thought should be required to
suspend one day in seven, just as
we'll as the merchant or manufacture
or. He argued there was no real
necessity for the mail, the trains, the
street cars and the newspapers.
That the supposed need was merely
the money-maker's arrangement to
continue uninterrupted his business
in order to despatch it with more
on Mondays. He could
see no consistency in a law allowing
a mighty corporation to transact it's
business on Sunday and at the same
time obliging the trades people to
cease their occupations. He thought
there was a gradual approach to a
general disregard Of all Divine and
human law on the observance of the
Sabbath and cited a number of the
large cities of this country in which
not even the theatres and saloons are
closed. Referring to the condition
of Paris, in which he said that one
half of the people toiled on the Sab
bath. that the other half might frolic,
he deplored the infusion in this
country of the habits and customs
of the Eastern Continent, in not one
of which, he said, as day of rest
and religious duty, is Sunday OBJ
served as it is observed in this coun-
try.
1t was for this reason and because
the country was discovered by a
Christian and peopled by men who
came to it as land in which they |
could worship the Lord and freely !
observe his Divine commands, that !
he could say the Sabbath was now
American. He said to
open the doors of the Worlds Fair
On Sunday would be to advertise to
Ill the nations of Europe that this
full of protesting Chri stians
and with law on their statute books
20 enforce the observance Of Sunday,
vas in reality not a whit more deeply
mbued in the religion Of Christ,
when it came to question of dol
ars and cents, than any other coun-
;ry on the globe. He praised the
English for frowning upon and caus-
ng a discontinuance of the New
York Herald in London on Sundays.
The eagerness to amass wealth, the
Of vast numbers Of the
worst classes of Europe, and the
necessity of millions to labor every
lay in the week or to suffer loss of
which may mean per-
laps distress or restitution for them
Ielves and families, were referred to
Is among the most potent agencies
low at week undermining the very
of institutions of this
Whilst black slavery, he
aid, had been abolished in this
country, the non-observance of Sun