Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-06-29

| in onr arm or bloc IN our heart Do not
bring YOUR Spanish Sabbath here. Do not
hrinl, your Italian Sabbath here. Do not
bring your French Sabbath here. Do not
bring your foreign Sabbath hers. II shall be
for ms and for our children forever a
pure, consecrated, ChristiAh' American SAD
bath"
will make comparison between the
American sabbath. as some OF You have
known II, anl the Parisian Sabbath. lspeaS
from observation. On a Sabbath morning |
was aroused ia Parts by n great sound Ia the
street. said. What Is this "Oh, thuy
said, "ths Is sunday" An unusual rattle
OF vehicles Of all sorts. The voices seemat
more boisterOus than on other days. People
running to and fro, with baskets or bundles.
to get to the rail trains or gardens. II seemed
as II all the vehicles in Paris, OF whatever
sort had turned out for the holiday. The
Champs Elysees one great mob OF pleasure
seeking people. Balloons flying. Parrots
chqttering. Footballs rolling. Peddlers
hawking their knickknacks through tho
streets. Punch and Judy shows In a score OF
places each one with shouting audience.
Hand organs, oymbals and every kind OF
racket. musical and unmuscal. When the
evening came down, all the theaters were In
full blaze OF music AMI full hlazs OF light.
Tho wine stores and saloons were thronged
with an unusual number OF customers. At
rventide stood and watched the excursion
lists coming home. tagged out men, women
AMI children, gulf stream OF fatigue. irrita-
hilitv AMI wretchedness for | should think
1t would take three or four days to get over
that miserable way OF Sundaying, l; seemed
moro like an American Fourth OF jury than
Christian Sabbath.
Now, in contrast, | present one OF the = ~
baths in one OF our beat American cities
Holy silence coming down with the day
dawn. Business men more deliberately LOOK
ing into the faces OF their children an talk
ing TO them about their present aud future
~elfglr. Men sit longer At tho table n the
morning, bac tuso the stores are not to be
opened and the mechanical tools are not to
be taken up. 4 hymn IL sung Tlers are
con CALCULATIONS an good cheer all throu yh
the house. The street silent until 10 O'Clock,
when there is II regular, orderly tramp
churchwarl. Houses OF Col vocal with
Thanksgiving for mercies received, with
prayer for comfort, with charities for the
poor. Rest for the holy. Rest for the soul.
The nerves quietsl, the temples coolei !, the
mind cleared, the soul strengthened. an
orr entire population turned out on Monday
morning ten years younger, better prepared
for the duties OF the life, better prepared for
the life that Is to come.
Which do you like best--the American
Sabbath or the Partisan SABBATH Do YOU
know In what boat the sabbath came across
the seas AMI landed on our shoresf II WAS
In tho Mayfower. Do you know in what
boat the Sabbath will leave u, II II ever
goes 1t will be in the ark that floats over
deluge OF national destruction.
still further, | protest against the Invasion
Of the Lords day because II wrongs n vast
multitude OF employees OF their rest. Ths
play actors and actresses can have their rest
between their engagements, but how about
! the scene shutters, the ballet dancers, ths
callboys, the innumsrable attendants aui
| sup-rnumcries of the American theatre?
Where Is their SUNDAY 10 come from They
| are pail small salaries ut the best. Alas
| for them They appear on the stage In tius3l
| and tAssel with hHlber 3, or In RauZs whirl-
| ing in toe fortunes. aud they might be mis-
| taken for fairies or queens but after o'clock
| nj night you may see them trliging throu III
| the streets In fadei dresses, shvering ant
tired n bundle under their arms seeking
| their homes in the garrets and cellars OF the
| city. Now. you propose TO take from thou
! sands of these employees throughout this
country not only all opportunity ot moral
| culture, but all opportunity OF physical rest.
! For heavens sake, let the crushing lusRer-
! naut 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 people. You
| nave DO1yf les. lou nave u nluu( 1tS.
! You have souli Yes. Which OF the secular
halls on the Sabbath day will give that soul
any culture? Now, admitting that u man
| has a spiritual AMI Immortal nature, which
| one OF the places of amusement Will culture
| It? Which one OF the sabbath performances
will remln men OF the fact that unless they
are born again they cannot SEQ the Kingdom
| OF God?
VIII the music of the Grand Duchess
| help people ut last to sing the song OF the
! one hundred AMI forty AMI four THOUSAND d!
Besides II YOU gentlemen OF the secular on.
tertainment have six days In the week In
! which to exercise your alleged beneficial in
| hueuce. ought YOU not to allow Christian In
stttutions to have tw1nty-tour hour~t IL II
unreasonable to demand that II you HAYS six
| days for the body and intellect we should
! have one day at least for our immortal souli
Or. to put II In another shape, do you really
| think our impershabe soul Il worth at
least one-seventh IA much as our psrshaOc
| boly?
An artist has three gems u cornelian, an
amethy3. AMI diamond. He has to cut
! thea and. to set them. Which one Is he
most particular aboutP Now, tho cornelian
is the body, the amethyst is tho intellect, tho
diamond is the soul For the two fern "
you propose six days OF opportunity white
you offer no opportunity at all for the last.
others like 800, 0O0, 600, 900 to one farthiug.
Besides you must not forget that nine-tenths
Aye ninety niue one hundredths OF all
the Christian efforts OF this country ara put
forth on the Lords day. sunday is the day
on which the asylums and hospitals AMI the
prisons are visited by Christian men. That
Is the day when the youth OF our country
get their religious information 10 Sunday
schools. That Is the day when the most oil
tha n FIa AL fnI nhaf Ia hnl ut
when, under the blast OF 60, 900 American
pulpits, the sin of the land Is assaulted and
men are summoned to repent. When you
make war upon any part OF Gods day, you
make war upon the asylums, AMI the peni'
tentaries, and the hospitals, and the reform
associations, and the homes OF the destitute
and the church OF tho living God, which Il
the pillar aud the gr"au VI tho truth.
l am opposed to the invasion OF the Sab.
bath because II Is n war on our political In
situations When the Sabbath goes down
the republic goes down. Men who are mol
willing to obey Gods law in regard to Sab
bath observance are not ut to govern them.
selves Sabbath breaking means dissolute
ness, and dissoluteness Is incompatible with
self government. They wanted republic In
France. Alter awhile they got republic
but one day Napoleon Ill. with his cavalry
rode through the streets. and down went the
| republic under the gathering hools. TheJ
have republic there again, but France
never will have permanent republic until
she quits her FOSTERING Sabbaths and devotes
one day In every week to the recognition Of
God and sacred institutions. Abolish the
Sabbath, and you abolish your religious
privileges. Let the bad work go on and you
have "the commune" and you have 'the
revolution" and you have the sun OF national
prosperity going down In darkness and
blood. From that reign OF terror may the
God OF peace deliver US.
still further, | am opposed to this invasion
OF the Sabbath because It is unfair and 1t IL
partial. While secular amusements In diff
ferent cities are allowed to be open on the
Sabbath day, dry goods establishments must
be closed and plumbing establishments, and
| the butchers. and the bakers. and the shoe