Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-07-12

'-"CtatriJ lOOAllg into the races Ol
their children, and talking to then
about their present and future welfare.
Men SIT longer at the table in the morn
ing. because the stores are not to be
opened, and the mechanical tools are
not TO be taken up. A hymn is sung.
Ihere are congratulations and good
cheer all through the house. The street
silent until 10 o'clock. when there is a
regular, orderly tramp churchward.
Houses of God. vocal with thanksgiv-
ings for mercies received. with prayers
for comfort, with charities for poor.
Rest for the body. Rest for the soul.
The nerves quoted, the temples cooled,
the mind cleared, the soul strengthened
and our entire population turned ont
on Monday morning ten years younger,
better prepared for the duties of this
life, better prepared for the life that is
TO come
Which do you like the best the
American Sabbath or the Partisan Sab
BATH? Do you know in what boat the
| Sabbath came across the seas and
landed on our shores? 1t was in the
Mayfower Do you know in what
boat the sabbath will leave us, if it
ever goes? Ii will be in the ark that
floats over deluge of national de-
struction.
Still further; | protest against the
invasion of the Lords day, because il
wrongs vast multitude of employees
Of their rest. The play actors and
actresses have their rest between their
engagements; but how about the scene
shutters, the ballet dancers. the call
boys the innumerable attendants and
supernumaries of the American thea
ter? Where is their Sunday to come
from? They are paid small salaries at
the best. Alas for them! They appear
on the stage in tinsel and tassel with !
halberds, or in gauze whirling in toe
tortures, and they might be mistaken
for fairies or queens; but after T.
o'clock at night you may see them
trudging through the streets in faded /
dresses. shivering and tired. a bundle /
under their arms seeking their homes |
in the garets and cellars Of the city.
Now, You propose TO take from thou
sands Of these employees throughout
this country; not only all opportunity /
Of moral culture. but all opportunity
of physical rest. For heavens sake let
the crushing juggernaut stop at least
one day in seven.
Again: ! oppose this modern inva-
sion of the Christian Sabbath because
il is a war on the spiritual welfare of
the people You have a body? Yes
You have a mind? Yes. You have
e-t,I1 " with, 80 a.. 5....,,l .,. halls !
on the Sabbath day win give that SOU
any culture? Now, admitting that a
man has a spiritual and immortal ma
ture, which one of the places Of amuse-
ment will culture it9 Which one of the
Sabbath performances win remind men
of the fact that unless they are born
again they cannot see The kingdom of
God? VIII the music of the Grand
Duchesse" help people at last to sing
the song Of the one hundred and forty
and four thousand? Besides IL you
gentlemen of the secular entertainment
have six days in the week in which to
exercise your alleged beneficial intiu-
encc, ought you not to allow Christian
institutions To have twenty-four hours?
Is it unreasonable TO demand that if
you have six DAYS for the body and in
tellect, we should have one day at least
for our immortal soul? Or, to put il in
another shape, do you not really think
that our imperishable soul is worth at
least one-seventh as much as our per-
body?
An artist has three gems-a corne- ,
liam. an amethyst and a diamond. He ,
has to cut them and 10 set them. Which
one is he most particular about? Now
The cornelian is the body, the amethyst
IS the intellect, the diamond is the soul ,
For the two former you propose six
lays of opportunity, while you offer ,
40 opportunity at all for the last, which
S in value as compared with the others
ike one hundred thousand million dol
airs to one farthing Besides, you must ;
lot forget that nine-tenths aye, ninety
line one-hundredth's of all the Chris
ian efforts of this country are put /.
orth on the Lords day. Sunday is the
lay on which the asylums and hospi- :
ais and the prisons are visited by
,hristian men. That is the day when 1,
he youth of our country get their :,
hief religious information in Sunday
chools. That is the day when the /.
most of the charities are collected.
That is the day when, under the blast !.
f sixty thousand American pulpits !
he sin of the land is assaulted and i
len are summoned 10 repent When !,
GU make war upon any part of Gods =
ay, you make war on the asylums, and !.
he penitentiaries. and the hospitals, :.
nd the reform associations. and the :,
ONES of the destitute, and the church :
( the living God, which is the pillar
nd the ground of the truth.
l am opposed to the invasion of the
abbath. because it is war on our POI
teal institutions. When the Sabbath II
oes down. the republic goes down d
len who are not willing to obey Gods =
NV in regard to Sabbath observance -
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