The Baptist headlight., 1894-07-11

oil UNUSUAL HuuDef Oh customers. Al
| eventide [ stoo3 and watched the ex
cursionlsts coming home, tagged out
men, women, and children. a gull
stream of fatigue, irritability and
wretchedness, for | should think il
would take three or four DAYS to get
over that miserable way of Sundaying.
1t seemed more like an American
Fourth of July than a Christian Sab
bath.
Now. in contrast. l present one OF
the Sabbaths in one of our best Amer
lean cities. Holy silence coming down
with The day dawn. Business men
more deliberately 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 morning because the stores are
not to be opened, and the mechanical
tools are not to be taken up. A hvmn
is sung There are congratulations
and good cheer all through the house.
The street silent until 10 o'clock. when
there is regular orderly tramp
churchWard. Houses of God vocal
with Thanksgiving for mercies re-
ceived with prayers for comfort. with
charities for the poor. Rest for the
body. Rest for the soul. The nerves
quoted, the temples cooled. the mind
cleared, the soul STRENGTHENED and
our entire population turned out on
Monday morning ten years Younger,
better prepared for the duties of this
lite, better prepare for the life that is
to come.
A Wrong to Employees.
Which do you like best-the Amer
lean Sabbath or the Partisan Sabbath?
DO you know in what boat the Sabbath
came across the seas and landed on our
shores? 1t was in the Mayhower Do
you know in what boat the Sabbath
will leave us if it ever does? 1t will be
IN the ark that floats over a deluge of
national destruction.
Still further, | protest against the
invasion of the Lords day because it
wrongs vast multitude Of employees
OF their rest. The play actors and
actresses can have their rest between
their engagements, but how about the
scene shlfters, the ballet dancers. the
callbOys, the innumerable attendants
and supernumeries of the American
theater? Where is their Sunday to
come from? They are paid small sal
aries at the best. Alas for them. They
appear on the stage in tinsal and tas-
sci, with halberds, or in gauze, whirl-
lng in toe tOrtures, and they might be
mistaken for fairies or queens. but
after II o'clock at night you may see
5hem trudging through the streets in
AIDED dresses, shivering and tired, a
bundle under their arms, seeking their
1Omes IN the garrets and cellars of the
'lty. Now, you propose to take from
thousands of these employees through |
'ut this country, not only all OppOrtu-
llty OF moral culture, but all OppOrtu-
lity of physical rest. For Heavens |
axe, let the crushing juggernaut stop
It least one day in seven.
War on Spiritual Welfare.
Again, oppose this modern invasion
f the Christian Sabbath because it is
war on the spiritual welfare of the
eople. You have body? Yes. You
ave mind? Yes. You have a soul?
yes. Which of these secular halls on
he Sabbath day will give that soul
ny culture? Now, admitting that a
IAN has 2 spiritual and IMMORTAL ma
lre, which one Of the places Of afnuse-
lent will culture it? Which one of
he Sabbath performances will remind
len of the fact that unless they are
Orn again they cannot see the King
ON cf God? Will the music of the
Grand Duchesse" help people at last
} sing the song of the one hundred
nd forty and four thousand? Besides.
you gentlemen of the secular enter
ent have six days in the week to ex-
rclse your alleged beneficial influence,
lght you not to allow Christian insti-
n hot |
unreasonable to demand that if you
ave six days for the body and intel
ct we should have one day at least
+ our immortal soul? Or put it in an
her shape. do you not really think /
lat our imperlshabe soul is worth at
asst one-seventh rs much as our per- j
liable body?
An artist has three gems,-a corne-
IN, an amethyst, and diamond. He :
Is to cut them and to set them. :,
hlch one is he most particular about.
Ow. the cOrneiian is the body. the I
nethyst is the intellect, the diamond a
the soul. For the two former YOU
oppose six days of opportunity. while
u of1er no opportunity at all for the S
ST, which is In value as compared
tn the others like 500, Coz. 900. 600 to u
e farthering. Besides YOU must not =
get that nine-tenths aye, ninety :,
ne one -hundreths of all the Christ v
efforts of this country are put forth q
the Lords day. Sunday is the dav o
which the asylums and Hospitals
the prisons are visited bv Christ b
men. That is the day when the
lth OF our country get their chief m
lgl0us lnformstiOn in Sunday o.
lools. That is the day when the :,
st of the charities are collected. -
at is the day when under the blast C
$4,000 American pulpits, the sin Of u
: land Is assaulted and men are sum pl
ned to repent. When you make
r upon any part of Gods day. yon .
ke war upon the asylums. and the CT
Orm associations. and the homes Of