Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-25

N-ff- %@e-N ~ AAsAl AAlla u tDlTlNlUk ana lflle Il
mortal naturr. which ono OF the PLACES oi
amusement viii culture III which one Il
tho sabbath periuEa innccs win remind
mon Of tho fact that ualess they arc born
ngnin they cannot sec the Kingdom OF |
COD WIN tho music Of the Grand Ouch.
csso'' help people at last TO siss tho song !
OF the ono hundred and forty and four
thousandf Besides, II you gentlemen OF
the secular entertainment have six days
In the week IN whseh 70 exercise your al.
legged beneficial influence, ought you not /
10 allow Christian Institutions TO have "a
hoursH Is II unreasonable to demand that |
II you have six days for tho body and in |
tollect we should have one day at least for |
our immortal souli Or TO put II In an
other shape, do you not really think that |
our imporlshnhlo soul Is worth at loast one
seventh rs much as our perishablo body
An artist hrs uire gcnls---a corneiian,
an amethyst and diamond. lio has 10 !
cut them and to set them. Which one Ia
he most particular abouts Now, tho cor
nelian Is tho body, tho amethyst Is the in
tellect, the Diamond 50 the soul For tho
two former you propose six days Of oppor-
tunity, while you offer no opportunity at
oil for tho last, which Is IN value as COM
pared with the others like 500, 600, 600, 900
to one farthing Besides you must not for
got that ninc-tenths-aye, ninety mine one
hundredths-of all tho Christian efforts
Of this country are put forth on tho Lords
day. Sunday Is the day on which the asy.
lums and hospitals md the prisons nra
visited by Christian men. That is tho day
whom the youth Of our country get their
chief religious Information in Sunday
schools That "a the day when the most
OF the charities arc collected. That Is the
day when, under the hlnst OF 60 600 Amer
lean pulpits, the sin Of the land is assault
ed and men arr summoned TO repent,
When YOU make war upon any part Of
Gods day, you mako war upon the nsy.
lums, and the reform associations, and the
homes OF tho destitute, and tho church Of
the living God, which Is the pillar and the
ground Of the truth
War on Political Institutions.
am opposed TO the invasion of the Sab.
bath because u Is war ON our political
institutions When tho Sabbath goes down,
] the republic goes down. Men who are not
| willing to obey Gods law In regard TO
Sabbath observance nru not flt 10 govern
| themselves. Sabbath breaking means dis.
soluteness, and dissolutenoss is incompat.
ible with self government. They wanted
republic In France After awhile they
got u npubllc, but one day Napoleon III,
with his cavalry, rode through the streets,
and down went the republic under tho
Gathering hoofs They have republic
therc again but France never will have a
permanent republic until she quits her
rolstering Sabbaths and devotes one day
in every week to the recognition OF God
and sacrod institutions Abolish the Sab
bath, and you abolish your religious priv.
leges. let the bad work go on, and you
have "tho commune, and you have tho
revolution, and you have the sun of ma
tional prosperity going down In darkness
md blood From that reign Of terror may
the God OF peace doliyor JUS
Still further, am opposed 20 this inva-
sion Of the Sabbath because II is unfair,
and It is partial While secular amuse-
mcnts in different cities are allowed to bo
open on the Sabbath day, dry goods cstab-
lishments must be closed, and plumbing
establishments, and tho butcher'a, and tho
bakers, and the shoemakcr's, and the
hardware stores Now, tell me by what
law OF justice you compel man TO shut
the door Of his store while you keep open
tho door Of your worldly establishment.
May IL please your honors, judges of the
supreme court, u you give to secular
places the right to b. open ON the Sabbath
day, You have to give, nc the same time,
the right 20 all commercial establishments
to be open and 10 all mechanical establish
ments 10 be open. II II Is right IN the one
case, II Is right In all the eases.
} Remember the sabbath.
But we arc told that thoy must gel
money on sabbath nights In order to pay
tho deficits Of the other nights Of tn,
week Now, In answer TO that ! say thai
II men cannot manage their amusement,
, without breaking the Lords day thel
: had better all 10 into bankruptcy together
We will never surrender our Christian
: Sabbath for the purpose OF helping thes'
violAtors 70 pay their expenses. Above all
, my confidence Is In tho good hand Of Coz
that has been over our cities since thoil
foundation But call this day upon al
those who befriend Christian principle, ant
those who love our political freedom, WIN
stand In solid phalanx in this Thermopylu
OF our American history. for believe a
certainly ns stand here that the triumph
! or overthrow OF American institutions do
ponds upon this sabbatio contest
Bringyo voices, your pens, your print
ing presses and your pulplts into the Lord
artillery corps for the defense Of our hul.
e day. Today In your families and In you
I
/ Sabbath dny TO keep It holy" Deere
before high heaven that this war on You
religious rights and the cradles Of you
children shall bring ignominious defeat {.
t the enemies Of God and the public veal
0 For those who die In the contest battlini
; for the right we shall ohisel the epitAph
"Those are they who oaIno ont Of grea
3 trlbuiation and had their robes washe'
and made white in the blood Of the Lamb.
4 But for TINT one who shall prove In TIL
? moral crisis roorrant to God and tho chusol
= there shall 30 no honorable cpitaph. II
5 shall not be worthy even OF burial plAe
in all this FREQ land, hut the appropriate
Q interment for such ono would DO &
. carry out his remains and drop them int
1 the sea, where tho lnwless winds whicl
: keep no Sabbath may gAllop over the gray
r Of him who lived and died traitor {
p God. the church and the free institution
Of America Long I've tho Christian Sal
lathl Perish foroyer all attempts TO over
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