Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-06-28

at night you may sec tnem truuBlnB
through tho streets in faded dresses, shiv
cring and tired, bundle under their arms,
seeking their homes in the garrcts and cell
lars of the city. Now, you propose to tako
from thousands of these employees
throughout this country, not only all OPP
portunity of moral culture but all opportu
nifty of physicel rest. For heavens sake,
let the crushing juggcrnout stop at least
one day in seven.
A War on Spiritual Welfare.
Again, I oppose this modern invasion of
the Christian Sabbath because it is n war
on the spiritual welfare of the people. You
have body? Yes. You have n mind?
Yes. You have n soulI Yes. Which of
the secular halls on tho Sabbath day will
give that soul any culture? Now admit
ting that a man has spiritual and i'm
mortal nature. which ono of the places of
amusement will culture itY Which one Of
the Sabbath performances will remind
men of the fact that unless they are born
again they cannot see the kingdom of
GodY Will the music of the Grand Ouch
esso" help people at last TO sing the song
of the one hundred and forty and four
thousand? Besides, If you gentlemen Of
tho secular entertainment have six days
in the week in which to exercise your al
legged beneficial influence, ought you not
to allow Christian institutions to have "a
hoursY Is 1t unreasonable to demand that
if you have six days for the body and in
telect we should have one day ut least for
our immortal soul2 Or, to put 1t in an
other shape, do you not really think that
our impcrishable soul is worth at least one
seventh as much as our perishable body
~ IL
an amethyst and diamond. He has to
cut them and to set them. Which one Is
he most particular about? Now, tho cor
nclan is the body, the amethyst is tho in
tcllect, the diamond is the soul. For the
two former you propose six days of oppor-
tunity, while you offer no opportunity at
all for the last, which is in value as com
pared with the others like 500, 000, 600, 900
to one farthing. Besides you must not for
get that nine tcnths-ayc, ninety nine one
hundrcdths-of all the Christian efforts
of this country are put forth on the Lord s
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 Sunday
schools. That is the day when the most
of the charities are collected. That is the
day when, under the blast of 60, 600 Amer
lean pulpits, the sin of the land is assault
ed and men are summoned to repent.
When you make war upon any part of
Gods day, you make war upon the asy-
lums, 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 the truth
War on Political Institutions.
am opposed to the invasion of the Sab
institutions. When the Sabbath goes down,
the republic goes down. Men who are not
willing to obey Gods law in regard tc
Sabbath observance are not fit to govern
themselves. Sabbath breaking means dis
soluteness, and dissoluteness is incompat
iblc with self government. 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
Gathering hoofs. They have republic
there again, but France never will have 9
permanent republic until she quits hel
FOSTERING Sabbaths and devotes one day
in every week to the recognition Of Goo
and sacred institutions. Abolish the Sab
bath, and you abolish your religious priv
leges. Let the bad work go on, and yOu
have 1.-THE commune, and you have 9TH,
revolution" and you have the sun of ma
tional 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 inva
sion of the Sabbath because it is unfair
and it is partial. While secular amusc
ments In different cities are allowed to b,
open on the Sabbath day, dry goods cstab
| lshments must be closed, and plumbin.
| establishments, and the butchers and tn,
| bakers and the shoemakers, and tn,
hardware stores Now, tell me by wha
| law of justice you compel a man to shu
| the door of his store while you keep opel
| the door of your worldly establishment
May it please your honors, judges of TIL
supreme court, if you give to secula
places the right to be open on the Sabbath
day, you have to give, at tho same time
the right to all commercial establishment
to be open and to all mechanical establish
ments to be open. If it is right In the on
case it is right in all the cases.
Remember the Sabbath.
But we are told that they must ge
money on Sabbath nights in order to pa
the deficits of the other nights of tn
week. Now, i'll answer to that l say tina
If men cannot manage their amusement
without breaking the Lords day the
had better all go into bankruptcy together
| We will never surrender our Christian
Sabbath for the purpose of helping thes
violaters to pay their expenses. Above all
my confidence is in the good hand Of Co
that has been over our cities since thci
foundation. But l call this day upon al
those who befriend Christian principle, an
those who love our political freedom, VIII
stand In solid phalanx in this Thermopylt
Of our American history, for believe a
certainly as stand here that the trump
or overthrow of American institutions dc
ponds upon this Sabbatic contest.
Bring your voices, your pens your print
ing presses and your pulpits into the Lord
artillery corps for the defense of our hol
day. Today in your families and in you
Sabbath schools recite Remember tn
Sabbath day to keep it holy" Deere
before high heaven that this war on you
religious rights and the cradles Of you
children shall bring ignominious defeat {
the enemies of God and the public wea
For those who die in the contest battlin