The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-06-27

about their present and future welfare.
Men sit longer at the table in the morn
ing, 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 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 thanksgiv-
ings for mercies received, with prayers
for comfort, with charities for poor.
Rest for the body. Rest for the soul.
The nerves quieted, 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
life, better prepared for the life that Is
to come. .
Which do You like the best, the
American Sabbath or the Partisan Sab
bath? Do you know in what boat the
Sabbath came across the seas and
landed on our shoresP II was in the
Mayfower. Do you know in what
boat the Sabbath will leave us, II II
ever goes? II win be in the ark that
floats over a deluge of national de-
struction.
Still further; protest against the
invasion OF the Lords day, because 1t
wrongs vast multitude of employees
of their rest. The play actors and
actresses have their rest between their
engagements; but how about the scene
shifters, the ballet dancers, the call
boys, the innumerable attendants and
supernumaries of the American thea
ter? Where is their Sunday to come
from? They are paid small salaries at
the best Alas for them! They appear
on the stage in tinsel and tassel with
halberds, or in gauze whirling in toe
tortures, and they might be mistaken
for fairies or queens; but after -
o'clock at night you may see them
trudging through the streets in faded
dresses, shivering and tired, bundle
under their arms, seeking their homes
in the garrets and cellars of the city.
Now, you propose TO take from thou
sands of these employees throughout
this country; not only all opportunity
of moral culture, but all opportunity
of physical rest. For heavens sake let
the crushing juggernaut stop at least
one day in seven.
Again: oppose this modern inva-
sion Of the Christian Sabbath because
it is war on the spiritual welfare Of
the people. You have body? Yes.
You have a mind? Yes. You have a
soul? Yes. Which of the secular halls
on the Sabbath day will give that soul
any culture? Now, admitting that a
man has a spiritual and immortal ma
ture, which one Of the places Of amuse-
ment will culture IL? 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? win the music Of the 'Grand
Duchesse" help people at last TO sing
the song of the one hundred and forty
and four thousand? Besides, II you
gentlemen Of the secular entertainment
have sis days in the week in which n
exercise your alleged beneficial infiu.
ence, ought you not to allow Christian
institutions TO have twenty-four hours?
Is II unreasonable 10 demand that II
you have six days for the body and in.
tellect, we should have one day at least
for our immortal soul? Or, 10 put II in
another shape, do you not really think
that our imperishable soul is worth al
least One-seventh as much A. our per
ishable body?
An artist has three gems-a corne'
lian, an amethyst and diamond lie
has to cut them and 10 set them. Which
one is he most particular about? Now
the cornelian Is the body. the amethyst
is the intellect. the diamond Is the soul
For the two former you propose siN
days Of opportunity, while you Offer
no opportunity at all for the last, which
is in value as compared with tine Others
like one hundred thousand million dol
lars TO oae farthing. Besides, you must
not forget that nine-tenths, aye, ninety
nine one-hundredth's of all the Chris
tian efforts o. this country are put
forth on the Lords day. Sunday is the
dag on which the asylums and hospi
tails and the prisons are visited b.
Christian men. That is the day wher
the youth Of our country get theiI
chief religious information in Sunday
schools That is the day when tn,
most Of tine charities are collected
That is The day when, under the bias
of sixty thousand American pulpits
the sin of the land is assaulted an,
men are summoned torepent. WheI
you make war upon aHy part Of Cod
day. Won make war on the asylums, an'
the penitentiaries, and the hospitals
and the reform associations, and th'
homes of the destitute, and the churcf
of the living God, which is the pillai
and the ground Of the truth.
am opposed 10 the invasion Of thI
Sabbath, because IL is war on our po
litical institutions. When the Sabbath
goes down, the republic goes down
Men who are not willing TO obey God''
law in regard to Sabbath observance
are not fit 10 govern themselves Sab
bath breaking means dissoluteness, and
dissoluteness is incompatible with self
government. They wanted republic
In France. After awhile they got re
public; 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
a permanent republic until she quits
her registering Sabbaths, and devotes
one day In every week TO the recoQni-