The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-11

atioDl4 TlHt Is he day Whom the IA, VI
IT the charities are collected. That Is tho
dny when under the blast Of 10, 600 Amor
lean rulpiia, the sin Of the land Is assault.
cd mud men are summoned to repent.
When you make war upon any pnrt "
Gods day, you make war upon the nsy.
lums, and the rvfunn associations and tho
homes ~ the destitute, and the 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 Il Is war ON our political
Institutions. When the Sabbath goes down.
the republic goes down. Men who are not
willing to obey Gods law in regard to
sabbath observance are not fit to govern
themselves. sabbath breaking means dis
solutcncss, and dissulutencss is incompat.
iblc with self government They wanted
republic In France. After awhile they
got a republic, but one day Napoleon III,
with his cavalry, rode through the streets,
and down went the republic under the
gathering hoofs They have a republic
there again, but France never will have a
permanent republic until she quits her
rcisterinF Sabbaths and devotes one day
in every week to the recognition of God
and sacred Institutions Abolish the Sab
BATH and you abolish your religious privi-
legcs. Let the bad work go ON, and you
have the commune and you have 1.-THE
revolution, and you have the sun of ma.
tional 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 inva-
sion Of the Sabbath because it is unfair,
IL al
monts in different cities are allowed to be
open on the sabbath day, dry goods cstab-
lishments must be closed, and plumbing
establishments, and the butchers, and the
bakers, and the shoemaker's, and the
hardware stores Now, tell me by what
law of justice you compel n man to shut
the door of his store while you keep open
the door of your worldly establishment.
May it please your honors judges of the
supreme court, If you give to secular
places the right to be open on the Sabbath
day, you have to give, at the same time,
the right to all commercial establishments
to be open and TO all mechanical establish
ments to be open. If it is right in the one
case, it is right in all the cases.
Remember the Sabbath.
But we are told that they must get
money on Sabbath nights in order to pay
the deficits of the other nights of the
week. Now, in answer to that / say that
II men cannot manage their amuscments
without breaking the Lords day they
had better all go into bankruptcy together
We will never surrender our Christian
Sabbath for the purpose of helping these
violaters to pay their expenses. Above all,
my confidence is in the good hand of God
that has been over our cities since their
foundation But call this day upon all
those who befricnd Christian principle, and
those who love our political freedom, who
stand in solid phalanx in this Thermopyle
of our American history, for l believe as
certainly as l stand here that the triumph
or overthrow of American institutions de
ponds upon this Sabbatic contest.
Bring your voices, your pens, your print.
ing presses and yourpulpits into the Lord
artillery corps for the defense of our holy
day. Today in your families and in your
Sabbath schools recite, Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy" Decree
before high heaven that this war ON your
religious rights and the cradles of your
children shall bring ignominious defeat to
the enemies of God and the public veal.
For those who die in the contest battling
for the right we shall chisel the epitaph,
lhcSt ulC llty WIZ Cstlilc ONb Oh great
tribulation and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of the Lamb.
But for that one who shall prove in this
moral crisis recreant to God and the church
there shall be no honorable epitaph. He
shall not be worthy even of burial place
in all this free land, but the appropriate
interment for such one would be to
carry out his remains and drop them into
the sea, where the lawlcss winds which
keep no Sabbath may gallop over the grave
of him who lived and died a traitor to
God, the church and the free institutions
of America. Long live the Christian Sab.
BATH Perish forever all attempts to over.
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