The Progress., 1893-04-01
appetite as contradistinguished from the


saloon open on Sunday panders to the
brutal IN man, not to man, and is a dis
grace to the Sabbath and not an enforce
ment Of that great commandment that
1t shall be for the benefit of man.
ELEvATING INFLUENCE OF THE DAY.
1t should touch mans moral and spir-
itual nature and upift and bless and
make whole. For that reason l be-
heve in going to church ON Sunday. i
wish could go to church on Sunday
get heart and soul sick sometimes be-
cause l am not able to go to church and
have some one speak to me about high
and holy and divine things. 1T should
be day when man should come in con-
tact, in touch with the divine, with the
uplifting, with the high, the holy, with
the ennobling. 1t should be held sacred
for those uses-that which touches mans
higher range of knowledge, mans spirit
ual nature, in the realm of music and
poetry and art and nature.
l would not be dogmatic and say that
the workingman who tolls in the factory
every day in the week and never sees
Gods fields and never breathes the fresh
air-I do not say the Sabbath is not his.
and he may not go out and see God on
that day-only that he see to it that it is
a worship, a rest, and that the rush and
roar and hell of world of work and an
noyance are laid aside, and he can touch
those spiritual and eternal elements that
make life worth the living. want to
appeal, therefore, today for the preserva-
ton Of this day. 1t is worth preserving.
Let us as nation and people preserveit it.
You know the treaty of Berlin made
provision that Mount Ararat in the
Caucasus should be the outer boundary
of the territory of Russia. The treaty
stipulated IL beyond any possibility of
misunderstanding. Russia understood
it; every European nation understood it
And now they are about to become in
volved in serious difficulty because il
has been discovered that Russia has
crossed Ararat and hundreds and hun
dreds of miles of that territory have been
Russianized. Russia never brought an
army there or said they would cross it,
but there was band of rowing tribes
who occupied that territory. They gave
an ostensible loyalty to the sultan Of
Turkey, but Russia sent her agents down
there and gained influence over these
men until now they wear the uniform
of Russia and proclaim the car of Rus
sia as their monarch. But Russia has
crossed the line, and the treaty of Berlin
does not amount to anything.
So your law amounts to nothing when
in the midst of law you allow abuses to
creep in and destroy it. You have law
to close your theaters on Sunday, but
there is hardly second class theater in
the city that does not have sacred con-
cert. If it was any sort of a concert or
there was any real music about it, it
would not be so bad, but it is neither
concert sacred nor secular 1t is pure
unadulterated hell for the corruption of
men, and no more belongs to music than
the painted faces of the poor miserable
creatures who appear there are typical
of womanhood. 1t is possible to have
your statutory law and your treaty, but
unless you watch they amount tonothing
Remember the Sabbath is a primal ordi-
nance of God, and if you violate it as
nation you will pay for it.
AMERICAS ESPECIAL NEED OF A SABBATH.
If ever a nation needed it, the Ameri-
can nation needs the rest that this day
brings-rest to think and to come near
to God That New England housewife
was typical of the American idea when
she went into her daughters room at the
break of day on cold winter morning
with her candle lighted to assist the dim
dawn, and cried: "Girls, get up; get up!
Don't lie there lazingl Remember, to.
days Monday, wash day; tomorrow's
Tuesday, next days Wednesday-half
the week gone and nothing DONE" As
nation that is the pace at which we go.
We rush over one another and on, and
as a nation and people we must have
that day and have it sacred. No nation
ever has disregarded it and lived in Chris
tianity. Infdel France tried it and broko
down. The French scientist said, 81
know you have outgrown the Ten Com
mandments, but you have got to come
back to the old primal law" As AL
American nation your great men ali
were men who believed in that day and
that days rest. You cannot find man
in craftsmanship or letters or science
in the history of this nation that did not
believe in it.
In fact, as a people the Anglo-Saxon
race seems to have founded its glory
and grandeur ON that fact. 1t is the
one race on which Gods sun does not
set, which seems destined to conquer the
world 1t is the race that rests one day
in seven. When you have done elimi-
mating other races of men and explained
to me the decline and fall of other races
and are confronted with the fact that
the Anglo-Saxon race has not reached
the zenith of its glory, but is yet climb
ing the hill toward the summit, where
God has the crown of the ages to put on
its brow, remember the Anglo-Saxon
race Is the race that observes the COM
mandmsnt for Gods day Of rest.