Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-06-28

have republic there again. but France
never Will have permanent republic until
she quits her roistering Sabbaths and devotes
one day in every week to the recognition of
4 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 tho
| revolution" and you have tho 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 1t is unfair and 1t is
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
makers. and the hardware stores. Now, tell
me by what law Of justice you can compel a
man to shut the door Of his store while you
keep open the door OF your worldly estab-
iishment. May it please your honors,
judges OF the supreme court IL you give TO
secular places the right to be open on tho
Sabbath day. you have TO give. at the same
time, the right to all commercial establish
ments to be open, and to all mechanical es-
adjustments TO be open. If II is right in the
one case, it is right in all the cases.
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 L say that If the men cannot
manage their amusements without breaking
the Lords day they had better all 90 into
bankruptcy together. We will never surren-
der our Christian Sabbath for the purpose OF
helping these violators 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 befriend Christian principle,
and those who love our political freedom,
who stand in solid phaanx in this Thermo-
pyl9 OF our American history. for / balievs
as certainly as / stand here that the triumph
or overthrow of American institutions de-
ponds upon this Sabbath contest
Bring your voices. your pens. your print
ing presses and your pupits into the Lords
artillery corps for the defense of our hoiy
day. To-day in your families and in your
Sabbath schools, recite "Remember the
sabbath day to keep it holy" Decree be-
lore high heaven that this war on your re-
ligious rights and the cradles OF your chill
dren 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. 'Thrse are
they who came out of great tribuation and
had their robes washed AMI 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 that there shall be no
honorable epitaph. He shall not be worthy
even OF a burial place in all this free land,
but the appropriate interment for such q one
would be to carry out his remains aud drop
them into the sea, where the lawess 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 Sabbath
Perish forever all attempts to overthrow 1t