The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-06-30

men of the fact hat unless they are
born again they cannot see the King.
dom of God? Will the music Of The
Grand Duchesse" help people at last
to sing the song of the one hundred
and forty and four thousand? Besides,
if you gentlemen of the secular enter
tainment have six days in the week in
which to exercise your alleged bene-
fetal influence, ought you not to allow
Christian institutions to nave twenty
four hours? Is IL unreasonable to de-
mand hat II you have six days for the
body and intellect, we should have n
day at least for our immortal soul?
An artist has three gems-a comedian,
an amethyst and a diamond. He has
to cut them and to set them. Which
one is he the most particular about?
Now the c~ornelian Is the body, the
amethys the intellect, the diamond is
the soul. For the two former you pro-
pose six days of opportunity, while you
offer no opportunity at all for the last,
which Is in value as compared with the
rest like one hundred thousand million
dollars to INT farthing. Besides, you
must not forget thai 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 asylums and the
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 most of
the charities are collected.
am opposed to the invasion Of the
Sabbath, because il Is a war on our po-
litical institutions. When the Sabbath
goes down, the republic goes down.
Men who are not willing to obey Gods
law in regard to Sabbath observance
are not fit to govern themselves. Sab
bath breaking means ~dissoluteness,
and dissoluteness Is incompatible with
self-government. They wanted a re-
public in France. After awhile they
got a republic; but one day Napoleon
Ill, with his cavalry, rode through the
streets, and down went the republic
under the Gathering hoofs. They have
a republic there again; but France never
will have q permanent republic until
she quits registering Sabbaths and
devotes n day in every week to the
recognition Of God and sacred institu.
tons. Abolish the Sabbath and you
abolish your religious privileges.
Still further: am opposed to this
invasion Of the Sabbath because il il
unfair, and 1t is partial. While secu-
lar smusements in different cities arc
allowed to be open on the Sabbath day
dry goods establishments must be
closed, and plumbing establishments,
and the butchers and the bakers, and
the shoemaker's and the hardware
stores. Now, tell me by what law OF
door of his store while you keep open
the door Of your worldly establish.
ment.
But we are told that they must ge,
money on Sabbath nights in order &c
pay the deficits of the other nights OF
the week. Now, in answer to that
say, that II men cannot manage theil
amusements without breaking the
Lords day, they had better all go int<
bankruptcy together. We will never
surrender our American Sabbath fol
the purpose of helping these VIC
lators to pay their expenses Above
hand Of Cod that has boon ov.,
our cities since their foundation RI,
I call this dav mon ali those who ha
friend CHRISTIAN principle. and tbos.
who love our political freedom. whr
stand in solid phalanx in this Their
mopvlae of our American history. fo,
believe as certainly as l stand her,
."A. N"e r'u.ap. Ut Overthrow o
american institutions depends upoI
this contest.
Bring your voices, your pens, your
printing presses, and your pulpits int