The Progress., 1894-04-07
THE WORKNAN'S DAY.
IN ALL NATIONS SUNDAY BRINGS C55-
6A-lON OF Toll,

~, AWAY vith Sabbath Law.
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The natural law Of weekly Test Is
common to all nations. It existed IIolh
the earliest history Of oar race. HIS
torv nbiIcsophy and mythology run not
contrary t. the septenary DIVISION "r
fine If prevailed among nations most
diversified in h4h,t and most remote
from each Other i'll time and place;
o,nour PcrsianS. Chaideans. Egyp-
fans, Hindoos and ancient Chinese "n
tho fartbcr,noSt cast and the Scandlna-
vians on fine northwest. 1t has held ITS
n1ace among the Jews through the long
aces Of their cnecbered history and ex-
;sts NOT only among Christians and Mo
b,r,nedan nations today, but is the
ALMOST universal law.
The wisdom OF the divine natural law
of cessation from hard labor one day
ont If seven is almost universally &C
L,ow,odaed, Experiments have been
oo5a in all deDartments, and it has
been fonnd ont that less work can DO
done in seven DAYS than in six, and that
tbo - DAYS Of the year devoted to rest
ara an addition rather than a subtrac-
4;o, Dr panl NEsmpvor, professor OF
,voione in the University of Leipsic, in
a treatise discussing the Sunday ques-
tion from purely scientific standpoint,
snms M his argument by saying, If
religion calls the seventh day the day
Of the Lord the hysienist, for the rea-
son that have exhibited, will call sun
dav 4the day of man. At the Dub
lin meeting of the British Association
For the Advancement of Science Oh the
4th Of September, 1857, Mr.. Bjanconl
nrasented in q scientific paper the re-
suits Of his extensive experience in es-
tablishing and maintaining Ireland $
system Of public cars. II found" said
he. "tbat | could work horse with
moro ADVANTAGE eight miles a day for
six DAYS than six miles day for seven
DAYS, and therefore l discovered by not
working on Sunday | made a saving OF
. per cent" And it is chiefly this
arithmetical and physiological fact
which preserved the Sabbath as a civil
institution since Constantine Coleridge
said that God gives civilization in it.
Sundays 50 springs year Lord Ma,
caulav, in speech delivered in the houst
of commons in 1916, after mentioning
the fact that the Sunday of 800 year,
would give so years Of labor, if devoted
to labor, says: For my own part [ have
not the smallest doubt that If we an(
l. our ancestors worked just as hard on TIT
Sundays as on the week days we shOuIt
have been at this moment poorer PEG
ple than we are; that there would have
been less production than there has been
and that the wages of the laborer woul'
3 have been lower than they are, and tina
some other nation would have been nov
making cotton stuff5 and WOODEN stuff
and cutlery for the whole world. o
9 course" he adds, Il do not mean to sa,
that a man will not produce more in
week by working seven days than b
working six days, but I very much doub
O whether at the end Of the year he vii
generally have produced more by worl;
inc seven days than by working six day
5 a week. We are not Ioorer, but richer
G because we have through many age
s rested from our labor one day in sever
That dav is not lost. Whole industry
SUSPENDED. While the plow lies in I'll
J. fallow. while the exchange is silen
X while no smoke ascends from the fat
y, tory. a process is going on quite as iii
nortant to the wealth of the nations ;
d apy process which is performed on mo,
IS busy DAYS Man, the machine of N;
chines--.the machine compared wit
which all the contrivapces Of the Wat
" and Arkwrights are wortbless-is r
pairing and winding up, 50 that he r
turns to his lahors Monday with clear,
intellect, with livelier spirits. with r
ie newed corporal yigor. Never will | b
O. lieye that what makes q populate
i; stronger and healthier and wiser al
! better can ultimately make it poorer.
= effort against Sunday laws. Let Il
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