News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-06-28
A Spiritual Necessity.

Again, l oppose this modern invasion
of the Christian Sabbath because it is a,
war on the spiritual welfare of the peo-
pie. You have body? Yes. You have
a mind? Yes. You have soul? Yes.
Which Of the secular halls on the Sab
bath day will give that soul any culture?
Now, admitting that man has spirit
ual and immortal nature, which one of
the places of amusement will culture it,
Which one of the Sabbath performances
will remind men of the fact that unless
they are born again they cannot see the
kingdom of God?
Will the music of the "Grand Ouch
ess'' help people at last to sing the song
of the one hundred and forty and four
thousand? Besides, if you gentlemen Of
the secular entertainment have six days
in the week in which to exercise your
alleged beneficial influence, ought you
not to allow Christian institutions to
have "a hours? Is it unreasonable to de-
mand that if you have six days for the
body and intellect we should have one
day at least for our immortal soul? Or,
to put it in another shape, do you really
think that our imperishable soul is
worth at least one-seventh as much as
our perishable body?
An artist has three gems-a corne-
lian, an amethyst and diamond. He
has to cut them and to set them. Which
one is he most particular about? Now,
the comedian 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 OPP
portunity at all for the last, which is in
value as compared with the others like
500, 900, 600, 900 to farthing. Besides
you must not forget that nine tenths-
aye, ninety-nine one-hundredths-of all
the Christian efforts Of this country are
put forth Oh the Lords day. Sunday is
the day ON which the asylums and hos
pitfalls and the prisons are visited by
Christian men, That is the day when
the youth of our country get their reli-
gious 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, 900 Ameri-
can pulpits, the sin of the land is as
saulted and men are summoned to re-
pent When you make war upon any
part of Gods day, you make war upon
the asylums, and the penitentiaries, and
the hospitals, and the reform associa-
tions, and the homes of the destitute,
and the church of the living God, which
is the pillar and the ground of the
truth.
Recognition of Sacred Things.
I am opposed to the invasion of the
Sabbath because it is war on our po-
itical institutions When the Sabbath
goes down, the republic goes down.
Men who are not willing to obey God s
law in regard to Sabbath observance are
not fit to govern themselves. Sabbath
breaking means dissoluteness, and dis
roluteness is incompatible with self gov
trnment. They wanted republic in
France. After awhile they got repub-
lie, but one day Napoleon III, with his
cavalry, rode through the streets, and
down went the republic under the clat-
tering hoofs. They have q republic there
again, but France never will have a
permanent republic until she quits her
roistering Sabbaths and devotes one day
in every week to the recognition of God
and sacred institutions. Abolish the
Sabbath, and you abolish your religious
privileges Let the bad work go on, and
you have ''the commune, and you
have "the revolution" and you have
the sun of national prosperity going
down in darkness and blood From that