The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-07-06


scene Shutters, the ballot-dancers, the
call-boys, the innumerable attendants
and supernumeraries of the American
theater? Where is their Sunday to
come from2 They are paid small
salaries at the best Alas for
.thems They appear on the stage
in tinsel and tassel with halberds,
or in gauze whirling IN toe tor
lures, and they might be mistaken for
fairies or queens; but after twelve
o'clock at night you may see them
trudging through the streets in faded
dresses, shivering and tired, 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
of moral culture, but all opportunity of
physical rest. For Heavens sake, let
the crushing Juggernaut stop at least
one day in seven.
Again: 1 oppose this modern invasion
of the Christian Sabbath because it is a
war on the spiritual welfare of the peo-
pie. You have body? Yes. You have
a mind? Yes. You have a soul? Yes.
Which of the secular halls on the Sab
bath day will give that soul any culture?
Now, admitting that man has spir-
itual and immortal nature, which one
of the places of amusement will culture
it? Which one of the Sabbath per-
formances will remind men of the fact
that unless they are born again they
can not see the kingdom of God? VIII
the music of the Grand Duchesse"
help the people at last to sing the soEg
of the one hundred and forty and four
thousand? Besides, if you gentlemen
of the secular entertainment have
six days in the week in which
to exercise your alleged bene-
fetal influence, ought you not
to allow Christian institutions to have
twenty-four hours? Is it unreason-
able to demand that if you have six
days for the body and intellect, we
should have one day at least for our
immortal soul. Or, to put it in an
other shape, do you not really think
that our imperisha bic soul is worth at
least one-seventh as much as our per-
ishable body?
An artist has three gems-a cornelian,
an amethyst and diamond. He has
to cut them and to set them. Which
one is he the most particular about?
Now the cornelian is the body, the
amethyst the intellect, the dia-
mond the soul. For the two former
you propose six days of opportunity,
while you offer no opportunity at
all for the last, which is in
value as compared with the others
like one hundred thousand million dol
lars to one farthing. Besides, you must
not forget that nine-tenths, aye, nine
ty-nine one-hundredths of all the
Christian efforts of this country are
put forth on the Lords Day. Sunday
is the day ON which the asylums and
the hospitals and the prisons are visited
by the Christian men. That is the day
when the youth of our country get
their chief religious information in
Sunday schools. That is the day when
the m ost of the charities are collected.
That is the day when, under the
blast of sixty thousand American
pulpits, the sin in the land is assaulted
and men are summoned torepent When
you make war upon any part of Gods
day, you make war upon the asylums,
and the penitentiaries, and the hospit-
ais, and the reform associations, and
the homes of the destitute, and the
church of the living God, which is the
pillar and the ground of truth.
am opposed to the invasion of the
Sabbath, because it is war on our
political institutions. When the Sab
bath goes down, the republic goes
down. Men who are not willing tc
obey Gods law in regard to Sabbath
observance are not fit to govern them
selves. Sabbath breaking means dis
soluteness and dissoluteness is inco1n-
patable with self-government. They
wanted a republican France. After
awhile they got 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 permanent
republic until she quits her royster-
ing 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 1.-The commune" and you
have 1.-The revolution and you havd
the sun of national prosperity going
down in darkness and blood From
that reign of terror may the God on
peace deliver us.
Still further: / am opposed to thi
invasion of the Sabbath because il il
unfair, and il is partial While secular
amusements in different cities are al
lowed to be open on the Sabbath day,
dry-goods establishments 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 COM
pei a man to shut the door of his
stire while you keep open the door of
your worldly establishment. May it
please your honors, judges of the SUI
preme court, if you give to secular
places the right to be open on the Sab
bath day, you have to give, at same
time, the right to all commercial esta.b.
lishments to be open, and to all me
chanical establishments to be open. II
il is right in the one case it is right in
all the cases.
Bring your voices, your pens, you
printing presses, and your pulpit's into
the Lords artillery corps of the defenss
of our holy day. To-day, in your fami
lies and in our Sabbath-schools re-
cite: Remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy Decree before
high Heaven that this war on your
religious rights and the cradles of your