The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27

is he most particular about? Now, the
cornelian is the body, the amethyst Is
the intellect, the diamond is 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 100000, 600 to one farthing. Be-
sides you must not forget that nine
tenthS-aye, ninety-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 asy
lums and hospitals and the prisons are
visited by Christian men. That is the
day when the youth OF our country get
their chief religious information In Sun
day schools. That is the day when the
most Of the charities are collected. That
is the day when, under the blast OF co.
600 American pulpits. the sin OF the
land is assaulted and men are sum-
moned to repent. When you make war
upon any part Of Gods day, you make
war upon the asylums. and the reform
associations, and the homes OF the des-
titute, 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
Sabbath because it is war on our pollti-
cal institutions. When the Sabbath goes
are not willing to obey Gods law in re-
gard to Sabbath observance are not fit
to govern themselves. Sabbath-break-
ing means dissoluteness. and dissolute-
ness is Incompatible with self-govern-
ment. They wanted a republic in 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 clattering hoofs. They
"A n France
never will have a permanent republic
until she quits her roiStering SabbathS
I and devotes one day in every week 10
the recognition of God and sacred in
stitutions. Abolish the Sabbath and you
abolish your religious privileges. Let
the bad work go on, and you have "the
commune" and you have 1.-The revolu-
tion," and you have the sun of national
prosperity going down in darkness and
blood. From that reign of terror may
the God of peace deliver US.
Still further, I am opposed to this in
vason Of the Sabbath because Il Is UNI
fair, and it is partial. While secular
amusements I'm different cities are al
lowed 10 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 COM
pei man to shut the door Of his store
while you keep open the door OF your
worldly establishments Nav it please
your honors, judges OF the supreme court,
II 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 establishments to
be open. If IL is right in the one case il
is right in all the cases.
Remember the Sabbath.
money on Sabbath nights in order to paw
the deficits OF the other nights Of the
week Now. in answer TO that say that
If men cannot manage their amusements
without breaking the Lords day they
had better all go into bankruptcy to-
gether. We will never surrender our
Christian Sabbath for the purpose OF
helping these violaters TO pay their eX-
penses. Above all. my confidence is in
the good hand of God that has been over
our cities since their foundation. But 1
call this day upon all those who befriend
Christian principle, and those who love
our political freedom, who stand In solid
phalanx in this Thermopylae Of our
American history, for j believe as GER
tainly as l stand here that the triumph
or overthrow of American institutions
depends upon this Sabbatic contest.
Bring your voices, your pens, your
printing presses and your pulpits into the
Lords artillery corps for the defense or
our holy day Today in your families
and i'm your Sabbath schools recite, Re
member 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
I'm the contest battling for the right we
shall chisel the epitaph, "These are they
who came out Of great tribulation and
had their robes washed anu 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 a burial place in
all this free land, but the appropriate
interment for such a one would be To
carry out his remains and drop them into
the sea, where the lawless 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 institu-
tions Of America. Long live the Chris
tian Sabbath Perish forever all at
tempts to overthrow it,