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

charged from the vessel because they
would not work while they were in
port on the Lords day. The captain
went out to get sailors. He found one
man and he said to him: '.Tin you
serve me ON the Sabbath?" 'No. =
'sWhy not?" 'sWell, +" replied the old
sailor, "a man who viii rob God Al
mighty Of his Sabbath would rob me
of my wages if he got chance"
Suppose you were poor, and you came
TO a dry goods merchant and asked for
some cloth for garments, and he should
say: 'I1l give you six yards" and
while he was off from the counter
binding up the six yards you should GO
behind the counter and steal one addi-
tional yard That is what every man
does when he breaks the Lords Sab
bath God gives us six days out Of
seven, reserving one for himself, and if
you will not let him have it, it is mean
beyond all computation.
Again, I am opposed to this desecra-
ton of the Sabbath by secular enter
tainments because it is a war on the
statutes of most of the states. The
law in New York state says:
1T shall not be lawful TO exhibit on
the first day of the week. commonly
called Sunday, to the public, in any
building, garden, grounds, concert
room or other room or place within the
city and county of New York, any in
terlude, tragedy, comedy, opera. bal
let, play, farce, negro minstrelsy, negro
or other dancing, or any other enter
tainment of the stage, or any part or
parts therein, or any equestrian, Giro us,
or dramatic performance of jugglers,
acrobats, or rope dancing"
Was there ever a palmer enactment
than that? Who made the law? You,
who at the ballot-boxes decided who
should go to Albany and sit in the leg
islature. You who in any region exer-
else the right of suffrage. They made
the law for you and fer your families,
and now / say that any man who at
tempts to override that law insults you
and me, and every man who has the
right of suffrage.
Still further: I protest against the
invasion of the Sabbath, because it is
a foreign war. Now, if you heard at
tbs moment the booming of gun in
the harbor, or if shell from some for
eign frigate should drop into your
street, would you keep your seats in
church? You would want to face the
foe, and every gun that could be man
aged would be brought into use, and
every ship that could be brought out
of the navy yard would swing from
her anchorage, and the question would
be decided. You do not want for
eign war, and yet have to tell you
that this invasion of Gods holy day is
a foreign war.
As among our own native-born popu-
lation there are two classes-the good
and the bad; so it is with the people
who come from Other shores-there are
and the lawless. The for
mer are welcome here. The more of
them the better we like it. But let not
the 1awless come from other shores ex-
pecting to break down our Sabbath,
and institute in the place of it a for
eign Sabbath.
How do you feel, We who have been
brought up amid the hills of New En-
gland, about giving up the American
Sabbath? Ye who spent your child
hood under the shadow of the Adiron-
daclxs or the CatskiIls; We who were
born on the banks of the Savannah, or
Ohio, or Oregon, how do you feel about
giving up the American Sabbath? You
say: I'VE shall not give it up We
mean to defend it as long as there is
left any strength in our arm, or blood
in our heartl Do not bring Jour Span
ish Sabbath here. Do not bring your
Italian Sabbath here. Do not bring
your French Sabbath here. Do not
bring your foreign Sabbath here. 1t
shall be for us and our children for
ever a pure, consecrated, Christian,
American Sabbath"
1 will make a comparison between
the American Sabbath, as some of you
have known it, and the Partisan Sab
bath. / speak from observation. Ona
Sabbath morning was aroused in Paris
by great sound in the street: / said:
what is this?n 20, they said, 'this
is Sunday" An unusual rattle of We
hicles of all sorts. The voices seemed
more boisterous than ON other days.
People running to and fro, with baskets
or bundles, to get to the rail trains
or gardens. 1t seemed as if all the We
hicles in Paris, of whatever sort, had
TUNED out for the holiday. The
Champs Elysees" one great mob of
pleasure-seeking people. Balloons fly
ing. Parrots chattering. Footballs
rolling. Peddlers hawking their knick-
knacks through the streets. Punch
and Judy shows in score of places,
each one with a shouting audience.
Hand organs, cymbals, and every
kind of racket, musical and unmusical
When the evening came down,
all the theaters were in full blaze
of music, and full blaze of light.
The wine stores and saloons were
thronged with an unusual number of
customers. At even-tide stood and
watched for the excursionists coming
home, tagged out men, women and
children, a gulf stream of fatigue, ir-
ritation and wretchedness, for should
think it would take three or four days
to get over that miserable way of Sun
daying. 1t seemed more like an Amer
lean Fourth of July than a Christian
Sabbath.
Now, in contrast, present one of the
is one of our best American
cities. Holy silence coming down with
the day dawn. Business men more de-
looking into the faces of
their children, and talking to them
about their present and future welfare.
Men sit longer at the table in the
because the stores are not to
be opened and the mechanical tools are
not to be taken up. A hymn is
sung. There are congratulations