Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-06-29
A SnirifnnI NaceasitH.


Again, 1 oppose this modern invasion
Of the Christian Sabbath because it is a
war on the spiritual welfare Of the peo-
pie. You have body2 Yes. You have
mind? Yes. You have a soul? Yes.
Which Of the secular halls ON the Sab
bath day will give that soul any culture?
Now, admitting that a man has spirit
ual and immortal nature, which one of
the places of amusement will culture 1t!
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-seyenth 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, 600, 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 on 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, 600 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 I
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.
l am opposed to the invasion Of the /
Sabbath because it 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 Sabbath |
breaking means dissolutcness, and dis |
soluteness is incompatible with self gov |
eminent. 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 a republic there |
again, but France never will have a /
permanent republic until she quits her |
FOSTERING Sabbaths and deyotes 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 60 on, and |
you have 1.-THE commune, and you |
have "the revolution, and you have |
the sun Of national prosperity going |
down in darkness and blood. From that /
reign Of terror may the God Of peace de-
liver US.
Still further, am opposed to this in
vasion Of the Sabbath because it Is un-
fair and it is partial. While secular |
amusements in different cities are allow
ed to be open on the Sabbath day, dry |
goods establishments must be closed, |
and plumbing establishments, and the |
butchers, and the bakers, and the shoe |
makers, and the hardware stores. Now, |
tell me by what law of justice you can |
compel a man to shut the door Of his !
store while you keep open the door Of |
your worldly establishment May it |
please your honors, judges Of the SUI
preme court, if you give to secular |
places the right to be open on the Sab
bath day, you have to give, at tho same |
time, the right to all commercial cs /
adjustments to be open and to all .
mechanical establishments to be open.
If it is right in the one case, it Is right
in all the cases.
A Call Tor Help.
But we are told that they must get
money on Sabbath nights in order to
pay the deficits Of the other nights Of
the week Now, in answer to that 1
say that if the men cannot manage
their amusements without breaking the
Lords day they had better all go into
bankruptcy together. We will never
surrender our Christian Sabbath for the
purpose Of helping these violators to
pay their expenses. Above all, my con-
fidence is in the good hand Of God that
has been over our cities since their
foundation. But l call this day upon
all those who befriend Christian priuci-
pie, and those who love our political
freedom, who stand in solid phalanx in
this Thermopyle Of our American his
tory, for believe as certainly as l stand
here that the triumph or overthrow Of
American institutions depends upon this
Sabbath contest.
Bring your voices, your pens, your
printing presses and your pulpits into
the Lords artillery corps for the de-
tense of our holy day Today, in your
families and in your Sabbath schools,
recite, Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy. Decree before high
heaven that this war on your religious
rights and the cradles of your children
shall bring ignominious defeat to the
enemies Of God and the public veal
For those who die in the contest bat
fling for the ri oht xVa shall cbicpl thp