Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-06-29

| family. the governor rules the state,
the President rules the whole land; /
wonder if the Lord has n right to rule
the nations and make the enactment.
"Remem Der the Sabbath day TO keep
IL holy" and If there is any appeal
TO a higher court from that de-
cision, and if the men who are
warning against the enactment are
not guilty of high treason against the
maker of heaven and earth. They
have in our cities put God on trial 1t
has been the theaters and the opera
houses, plaintiffs, VS.. the Lord AL
mighty, defendant; the suit has been
begun, and who shall come out ahead,
you know. Whether il be popular or
unpopular / now announced il as my
opinion that the people have no rights
save those which the great Jehovah
gives them. lie has never given the
right to man break his holy Sab
bail, and as Nsrg as his throne stands,
he neve~ will give that right
The prophet asks a question which
I can easily answer, "Will a man rob
GodP" Yes They robbed him last
Sunday night at the theaters and the
opera houses, and l charge upon them
the infamous and high handed larceny,
/ hold the same opinion as n sailor /
have heard of. The crew had been
discharged from the vessel because
they would not work while they were
in port on the Lords day. The cap
tain went out to get sailors. He found
one man and he said to him. will
you serve me on the Sabbath?" mo. :"
why not?" WELL" replied the old
sailor, "a man who will rob God AL
mighty of his Sabbath would rob me
of my wages If he got chance"
Suppose you were poor and you
came TO dry goods merchant and
asked for some cloth for garments,
and he Should say, I'm give you six
yards" and while he was off from the
counter binding up the six yards you
should 20 behind the counter and
steal one additional yard. That is
what every man does when he breaks
the Lords Sabbath. God gives us six
days out of seven, reserving one for
himself, and if you will not let him
have it. it is mean beyond all compu-
tation.
Again: am opposed to this desc
Grafton of the Sabbath By secular en-
tertainments because it is war on
the statutes of most of the states
The law in New Yorl; state says:
lit shall not be lawful to exhibit, on
the first day of the week, commonly
called Sunday, TO the public, in any
building, garden, grounds, court room
or other room or place within the city
and county of New York, any inter
lude, tragedy, comedy. opera, ballet
pay, farce, negro minstrelsy, negro
or other dancing, or any other enter
tainment of the stage, or any part OF
parts therein, or any equestrian, cir
Gus, or dramatic performance, or any
performance of Jugglers acrobats OF
rope-dancing.
Was there ever a palmer enactment
than that? Who made the law? You,
who at the ballot boxes decided
who should go to Albany and sit in
the Legislature You who in any region
exercise the right of suffrage They
made the law for you and for your fam
lilies and now l say that any man who
you and me and every man who has
the right of suffrage.
Still further: / protest against the
invasion of the Sabbath, because it is
foreign war. Now, if you hear al
this moment the booming of a gun in
the Dor, or if a she'll from some for
eign frigate should drop into your
street, would you keep your seats in
church? You would want to face the 70,
and every gun that could be managed
would be brought into use, and every
ship that could be brought out of tn,
navy yard would swing from heI
anchorage, and the question would be
decided You do not want foreign
war, and yet have TO tell you tina
this invasion of Gods holy day is f;
foreign war.
AS among our own native-born pop
! ulation there are two classes-tht
good and the bad; so it is will
the people who come from othel
, shores-there are the law abiding anC
the lawless. The former are welcom,
here. The more of them the better
we like it. But let not the lawles,
COult lIOin OllltT SuOICS expecting lN
break down our abbath and institut,
J in the place of it n foreign Sabbath
} How do you feel, We who have beer
brought up amid the hills of New
: England, about giving up the Ameri
can Sabbath? Ye who spent you
, childhood under the shadow OF tn,
Adirondacks or the Catskills; We VIII,
were born on the banks of the Savan
! nah, or Ohio, or Oregon, how do you fee
about giving up the American Sab
| bath? You say: I'VE shall not Civ,
! it up. We mean to defend it us Ions
as there is left any strength in oui
arm, or blood in our heart! d. no
: bring your Spanish Sabbath here ID,
not bring your Italian Sabbath here
Do not bring your French Sabbath
here. Do not bring your foreign sab
J bath here. IL shall be for us and GU
children forever pure, consecra ted
: Christian. American Sabbath"
I will mako n comnariSon hetvea,