Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-07-06

of the Adirondacks or the CNsSills, ye VINO
were born on the banks OF the Savannah or
Ohio or Oregon. how do you feel about CIV
ing up the American Sabbath? You say:
"We Shall not give it up. We mean to de-
fend il as long as there is left any strength
in our arm or bloo1 in our heart Do not
bring your Spanish Sabbath here. Do not
bring your Italian Sabbath here. DO not
bring your French Sabbath here. Do not
bring YOUR foreign Sabbath here. 1t shall be
for us and for orr children forever q
pure, consecrated, Christian, American Sab
BATH"
I will make comparison between the
American Sabbath. as some Of you have
known it. AMI the Partisan Sabbath Ispeak
from observation. On a Sabbath morning
was aroused in Paris by great sound In the
street. I said, "What is ths?" "Oh," thoy
said. "thls is Sunday" An unusual cattle
OF vehicles OF all sorts. The voices SCENE l
more bo'sterous than on other days. People
running to AMI fro, with baskets or bundles.
to get TO the rail trains or gardens. Hseemed
as if all the vehicles in Paris, Of whatever
sort, had turned out for the holiday. Inc
Champs Eysees one great mob OF pleasure
seeking people. Balloons flying. Parrots
chattering Footballs rolling Peddlers
hawkinE their knickknacks through the
streets. Punch and judy shows in score OF
places, each one with shouting audience.
Hand organs, cymbals AMI every KIM OF
racket. musical ani unmusical. When the
evening came doWo, all the theaters were in
full blaze OF music AMI full blaz9 OF light.
The wine stores AMI saloons were thron3ed
with an unusual number OF customers. AT
eyantlde stool and watched tho excursion
lists coming hone, tagged out men, women
an / children, gulf stream OF fatigue, lrrita-
| bility and Indebtedness, for l should tnlnS
1t would take three or four days to get over
that miserable way Of Sundayny. 1t Same
! moro like An American Fourth OF july tlan
4 Christian Sabbath.
Now. in contrast. present one OF the s 10
baths in ons o! our best American cities.
HOLY silence coming down with the day
| dawn. Business men more deliberately LOOK
| ing into the faces OF their children aud talk
! ing to them about their present and future
welfare. Men sit longer at the table in the
morning bee luSa the stores ara not to BE-
opened, and the mechanical tools are not to
be taken up. hymn is sung. Tlera are
congratulations and goo cheer all through
the housa. The street silent until 10 O'Clock,
when there is regular, orderly tramp
caurchwarl. Houses of Col. vocal with
thanksgiving for mercies received, with
prayer for co Mort. With charities for th9
poor. Re-t for the holy. Rest for the soul.
The nerves quietel, thu temples cooled, the
mind cleared, the soul strengthened, an
our entire population turned out on Monday
morning ten years younger. better prepare
for the duties OF the life, better prepared for
the life that is to come.
Which do Won like best-the American
Sabbath or the Partisan Sabbath? Do you
know in what boat the Sabbath came across
the seas an landed or our shores? 1t was
in ths Mayhower. Do you know in what
boat the Sabbath will leave u, IL it ever
goes! It will be in the ark that floats over
deuge of national destruction.
Still further, l protest against the invasion
of the Lorl's daV because ii wrongs vast
multitude of employees OF their rest. Thu
play actors and actresses can have their rest
between their engagements, but how about
the scene shutters, the ballet dancers, the
callboys, the innumerable attendants AMI
suDernune OF the American theatre!
Where is their Sunday 10 come from? They
are pai small salaries at the best. Alas.
for them! They appear on the stage In tinssl
and tassel with halber ls, or in gauze whirl-
ing in toe tortures. aud they might be mis-
taken for fairies or queens, but after O'Clock
at niyht YOU may see them trudging through
the streets in faded dresses, shivering AMI
tired, bundle under their arms, seeking
their homes in the garrets an cellars or the
city. Now. you propose to take from thou
country not only all opportunity OF moral
culture, but all opportunity OF physical rest.
For heavens sake, lot the crushing Jugger-
naut STOP at least oae day in seven.
Again, oppose this modern invasion OF
the Christian Sabbath because it IS a war on
the spiritual welfare Of tho people. You
have a body? Yes You have a mind? Yes.
You have a soul? Yes. Which OF the secular
halls on the Sabbath day will give that soul
any culture? Now, admitting that man
has spiritual and immortal nature, which
one Of the places of amusement will culture
it? Which one OF the Sabbath performances
will remin msn of the fact that unless they
are horn again they cann)t see the kingdom
OF Col?
viii the music of the "Grand Duchess
help people at last to sing the song OF the
one hundred and forty ami four thousand?
Besides, il you gentlemen Of the secular en-
tertainment have six days in the week in
which TO exercise your alleged beneficial In
husncs. ought you not to allow Christian In
stitutions TO have twenty-four hoursf Is 1t
unreasonable to demand thst if you hlve six
DAYS for the body and intellect we should
have one day at least for our immorta! soul?
Or, to put it In another shape, do you really
think our impershable soul is worth 1t
least one-sev9nth as much as our perisaable
body?
An artist has three gens-a cornelian, an
amethyst AMI Il diam0n1. He has to cut
them and to set then. Which one Is he
most particular aboutY Now, the cornelian
is the DO ", the amethyst is the intellect, the
damon is the soul. For tho two former
YOU propose six days OF opportunity, while
YOU offer no opportunity at all for the last,
which is in value as compared with the
others like S1O) 900, 0)O 900 to ono farthing.
Besides vou must not forget thlt njne-tenths
ave. ninety-nine one-hun iratths-ot all
thaChristian efforts Of this country are put
forth on the Lords day. Sunday Is the day
on which the asylums anl hospitals an ths
prisons are visiteI by Christian men. That
is the day when thu youth OF our country
get their religious information In Sun lay
schools. That is tho day when the most oil
tha charities are collected. That is the day
when. under the blast OF $4,000 American
nulpits. the sin OF the Ian is assaulted and
men ara su nnonei to repent. When you
make war upon any part OF GoPs day, you
make war upon the asylums, an the penl-
tentnries, an tho hospitals, and the reform
associations, an the homes OF the destitute,
and the church OF the living God, which IS
the pillar and the grounl OF the truth.
lam opposed to the invasion OF the Sab
bath because it is war on our political In
sttutions When the Sabbath goes down,
the republic goes down. Men who are not
willing to obey Coils law in regard to Sab
bath observance are not fit to govern them
selves. Sabbath breaking means d1ssoiute-
ness. and dissoluteness is incompatible with
| self government. They wanted republic In
France. After awhile they got republic,
but one day Napoleon I'LL, with his cavalry,
rode through the streets, and down wentthe
republic under the Gathering hoofs. They
| have n renublic there again. but Francs
never will have permanent republic until