The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-07-05
In tho ark that floats over deluge of
national destruction.

SILL further, protest against tho
invasion Of tho Lords day because 1t
wrongs vast multitude of employees
OF thelr rest. The play actors and act
resses can have their rest between their
engagements, but how about the sGeno
shltters, the ballet dancers, the callboys,
tho innumerable attendants and super
numerarles Of tue American theater?
Where is their Sunday to come from?
They are paid small salaries at the best. |
Alas for them They appear on the |
stage III tipsel and tassel, with halberds,
or in gauze, whirllng in too fortunes,
aud they might be mistaken for fairies |
or queens, but after IL o'clock at night |
you may see them trudging through the |
streets in faded dresses, shivering and |
tired, Il bundle under their arms, seeking
their homes in the garrets and cellars of |
the city. Now, you propose TO take
from thousands OF these employees
throughout this country, not only all
opportunity of moral culture, but al! op.
portunity of physical rest. For heavens
sake, let the crushing juggernaut stop at
least one day in seven.
Again, oppose this modern Invasion
OF The Christian Sabbath because it is
war on the spiritual welfare of the poo.
pie. You have n body. Yes. You
have mind9 Yes. You have a soul?
Yes. Which Of the secular halls on tho
Sabbath day will give that soul any cul.
tu1t? Now, admitting that q man has a
spiritual and immortal nature, which
ono of the places Of amusement will cul-
ture il? Which one Of the Sabbath per.
formances will remind mon Of the fact
that unless they arc born again they can
not see the kingdom of God? Will tho
music Of the "Grand Duchess" help peo.
pie ut last TO sing the song of the ono
hundred aud forty and four thousand?
Besides, if you gentlemen Of the secular
entertainment have six days In the week
in which TO exercise your alleged bene-
lical influence, ought you not to ALLOW
Christian institutions TO have 24 hours?
Is il unreasonable to demand that if you
have six days for the body and intellect
we should have one day at least for Our
immortal soul? Or, to put it in another
shape, do you not really think that our
| limperishable soul is worth at least one
seventh as much as our perishable body?
| An artist has three gems a cornelian,
an amethyst anda diamond. He has to
cut them and to set them. Which one is
he most particular about? Now, the
cornelian ls the body, The amethyst is
tho intellect, the diamond is the soul.
For The two former you propose six days
of opportunity, while you offer no OPP
portunity at all for the last, which is in
value as compared with the others like
500, 900, ,O00,0 900 to one farlhing. Be-
sides you must not forget that nine
tenths s-aye, ninety-nine onehundredths
of all the Christian efforts of this coun-
try are put forth on the Lords day. Sun
day is the day on which the asylums and
hospitals and the prisons are visited by
Christian men. That is the day when
tie youth Of our country get their chief
religious information in Sunday schools.
That is the day when the most of the
charities are collected. That is the day
when under that blast Of 5000 Ameri-
can pulpits, tho sin of the Ian! is as
saullcd and men are summoned 10 re-
pent. When yeu make war upon any
part of Gods day, you make war upon
the asylums, and the reform associations,
and the homes of the destitute, and the
church OF the living God, which Is the
pillar and The ground of the truth.
l am opposed TO the Invasion of the
Sabbath because it is a war on our poll
tcal institutions. When the Sabbath
goes down, the republic goes down.
Men who are not willing TO obey Gods
law in regard to Sabbath observance are
not tit TO govern Themselves. Sabbath
breaking means dissoluteness, and dis
soluteness is incompatible with self gov
crnment. They wanted republic in
France. After awhile they got repub-
lie, but one day Napoleon Ill, with his
cavalry, rode through tire streets, and
down went the republic under the clat-
tering hoofs. They have republic there
again, but France never will have q per-
manent republic until she quits her rois,
tering Sabbaths and devotes one day II
every week to the recognition of Coz
and sacred institutions. Abolish th'
Sabbath. and you abolish your religious
privileges. Let the bad work 60 on
and you have "the commune." and yo,
have "the revolusion," and you have
, tho sun Of national prosperity goin.
) down IN darkness and blood. From tina
reign Of terror may the God of peace de-
/ liver us.
/ Sull further, am opposed to this inva
sion of tho Sabbath because IL is unfair
3 and IL ls partial. While secular amuse
f ments in different cities are allowed t,
be open on the Sabbath day, dry goods
. establishments must bs closed, an,
) plumbing establishments, and the butch
+ er's, and the bakers, and the shoemak
g er's, and tho hardware stores. Now
l tell me by what law of justice you com
= pol man to shut the door of his stor
g while you keep open the door of you
:. worldly establishment. May it pleas
:. your honors, Judges Of the supreme court
. II you give TO secular, places the righ
+ to be open on tho Sabbath day, you have
. TO give, ut the Same time, the right t.
Y all commercial establishments TO be oper
. and TO all mechanical establishments I,
, be open. If it is right in the one case
it is right in all the cases.
| But we arc told that they must go
money on Sabbath nights in order to pa,
the dollcits of tho other nights of tn
} week. Now, in answer TO that SAY
that if men cannot manage their amuse-
ments without breaking tho Lords da,
they had better all be into bankruptc,
together. We will never surrender oul
GhrIetion Sabhoth for The O,1rpoaa n