The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-05-07
PUT IN PLAIN WORDS
4 Powerful Plea for Slbbath Observance
In Butte.
SERMON BY REV. Mr.. WOOD
Showing How All Classes OF Society
arc the Benetactors Of a Sys-
tenn That Oivos a Day of
Rest Each Week.

BUTrE, May 6.-Sermons were delivered
at all Of the churches this evening on the
question of sunday observance. There
were several exchanges OF pulpits and
Rev. Galen Wood of the Christian church
oiiiciated at the First Baptist church and
delivered an interesting address on "Sun-
day Observance and American lnstitu-
lions"
lie said that Sunday is the civil
day of rest which is demanded by the nat
ural necessities of mankind. II wasn't es-
tablished with the idea of making people
religious, but 10 give them one day 5 rest
in seven. which il has been demonstrated
the physical needs of man require. The
religious observance of sunday is simply
incidental. Christians choose to devote
the Sabbath 10 the worship Of God, but
others are at liberty TO occupy tho day rs
they see fit.
Mr.. Wood spoke of the clearly demon
strated ability Of man 10 do better work
when only working six days out of seven
than at any other ratio. lie referred TO
the national experiment that was made
during the French revolution. when the
people of France undertook To have ono
day OF rest in 10. The experiment proved
n signal failure and they were compelled
to return TO the old plan OF one days rest
in seven. Recently in the interest Of
science party of eminent French physl-
clans shut man up in n large glass case
which was hcrmctlca,ly scaled. Frequent
tests were made of the air in the case aud
IL was found that while the man was mt
work he threw oil an abnormal quantity
OF oxygen. which was fully restored while
he was resting. This was conclusive proof
that continuous work wears man out.
la cilies where horse cars arc in use IL is
the practice of the company To have one
seventh more horses than are actually
needed 80 that each horse can havo ono
days rest each week. This business
proposition, which proves that a weekly
day of rest is required as much by ami
mails as by man.
The interests of society are better
served by an observance OF the Sabbath.
Lawlessness and tendency To crime are
greatly increased by a lack Of Sunday OBJ
seryance.
"Not only is it important that there
shall be Sunday observance said Mr..
Wood, "but the kind Of observance is
quite as much to bo regarded. One of tho
chief obstacles TO general cessation OF
labor on Sunday in our community has
heretofore been thc open saloon and
other places of vice Turing the iaborer to
dissipation which units him for the next
days toll, and which Is attended with
other far more serious consequences. What
we all need is a Sunday spent in such a
way as to furnish recreation In its best
sense, recreative rcinvigoration, uplifting
TO higher plane with increased strength,
higher purposes, brighter hopes and
more generous impulses with which TO
90 to the duties of life. This is the
only kind of Sunday that can minister the
blessings the day is designed 10 confer.
To such a Sunday, in America. the chief
foe, next TO total non-observance in GER
tain quarters, is the introduction of the
continental Sunday of Europe. Better,
perhaps, that man should toll without
ceasing than that he should spend one
day in seven in degrading vice. Joseph
Cook says, Give America, from sea TO
sea, the Partisan Sunday, and in 200 years
she will be politically under the heels OF
the feather heads, tho toughs. the sncaks
and tho money gripes. Abolish Sunday
and the social sanity il fosters, and In less
than century the conflict between labor
and capital would issue IN petroleum and
| fire battles
referring to the regard Of the early
| settlers of America for sunday and their
manner of observing 1t. Justice Strong OF
the United States supreme court said in a
| speech at Washington: The sabbath su
/ observed no one can doubt contributed
largely To the formation of That character
which has stood US in So much stead in
our history, and which has been the al.
miratlon of the world. ] verify believe
were our civil laws prescribing the obscry-
ance OF Sunday as a day of rest for all our
people universally obcyed IN Their true
spirit, life. liberty and prosperity would
bc far more secure than they are now. Ii
is time for Christian men. for patriotic
| men, for lovers of their country and fellow
men. 10 arise aud, so FAR us is in Their
power. to exert au influence TO restore the
Sabbath TO what IL vas intended 10 be by
the trainers OF our laws and by out
fathers. The great mass OF our American
people want. as they have ever had, laws
for the observance and protection of 4
weekly rest day of all our people. not be-
cause such n day is Divine institution
but because they believe that such day
properly regarded Is of immense import
ancc to our political and social interests
Whatever benefits the individual Is Of i'm.
portance TO the state. and is worthy o. no
tice by its government This is doub!y
true Of Sunday observance in n republic
for the reason that not only the indiyidua
well being is concerned but the charactct
of the people, who are the soyerelgns
Nowhere OH the globe IL there a
nation which has such influence beyond
its own borders as our own. Great Britain
has more political, but tho United State.
more moral influence than any other ma
tion. II is because OF the advance OF edu
caticn and democracy; It Is because oi
the progress OF Christianity that at the
bottom of the wall of every sirugslln.
people you find American ASPIRATIONS
At the Mountain View NJ. l.. church
Rev. W. Rollins spoke on the origin anC
design OF the Sabbath and the heneticen
results that will follow a right Observance
OF n.
Montana Commaudery No. 3, Knights
Templar, attended at the morning sery
ice at the Presbyterian church IN a body
and listened to an eloquent and aprro
pirate discourse from tho pastor, Rev
Rev. T.. ]. Groeueveld. A beautiful SOM
service was rendered hy a choir, compose,
Of Misses Young aud Royce aud Alessrs
Eenuer, Seller. Patterson and Martin, as
sisted By Orton's orchestra. Mr.. Greene
weld spoke on Sunday observance in thu
| evening.