The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-07-04

! Sabbath cay will give that soul any cul.
tu.t? Now, admitting that man has a
spiritual aud immortal nature, which
one of the places of amusement will cUl.
ture d? Which one CT the Sabbath per.
fo1mances will remind me1 of the fact
that unless they are born again they can
not see the kingdom of Go6? VIII the
music Of the Grand Duchess" help reo.
PIE at last t, sing the song Of the one
hundred aud forty and four thousand:
Besides, Ii YOU gentlemen # the secular
entertainment have six days in the week
ia wh'cl to exercise your alleged bene-
Gcal influence, ought you not to ALLOW
| Christian institutions to have q hours?
Is it unreasonable to demand that if you
have six days for The body and intellect
we should have one day at least Tor Our
Immortal SOU? Or, to put it IN an 'ther
shape, do you not really think that cur
imperlsbGble soul is worth at least one
seventh as much as cur perishab!e tod}:
Al artist has three gems "a c0rnellan,
an amethyst anda diamond. He has to
cut them and 10 set them. Whlcb one is
he most particular about? Now, the
cornelan IS the bod, the amethyst ls
| the intellect. the diamond is the soul.
For the two former you propose SIX days
Of opportunity, while you cfer no op-
pcrtunity ct all foc :be last, which is in
value as compared with The Others Ike
$ICO 600, 200, 900 10 one far hing. Be
sides you must not forget that Dlne-
tentae-- aye, ninety-uine onehundredths
of al the Christian efforts OF this coun-
trv are put forth on the lords day. Sun
| day is the day on which the asy lums and
| hospitals and the prisons are visited by
| Christian men. That's the day when
tie youth tf our country get their chief
religious information in Sunday schools.
Thst is the day when the most OF The
charities are collected. That is the day
| when under that blast Of G0,000 Ameri-
can pulpits, the sin Of the Ian, ls as
saulled and men are summoned 10 re-
pent. When yeu make war upon any
part of GODS day, you make war upon
the asyluns, and the reform associations,
and the homes of the destitute, and the
church of the living God, which is the
pillar and the ground of the tlu!h.
am opposed to the Invasion OF the
Sabbath because it is war on our poll
;ical institutions. When the Sabbath
goes. down, the republic goes down.
Men who ale not willing to obey Gods
law in regard to Sabbath observance are
not FL to govern themselves. Sabbath
breaking means dissolu!eness, and dis
soluteness is incompatible with self gov
ernment. They wanted republic IN
Flance After awhile they got repub-
lie, but one day Napoleon Ill, with bis
cavalry, rode through the streets, and
down went the republic under the clat-
tering hoofs. They have republic there
again, but France never will have per
manent republic until she quits her rcis-
tefing 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 90 on,
and you have 1.-THE commune, and you
have 1.-THE revolusion," and you have
the sun of national prosperity going
down in darkness and blood. From that
reigu of terror may the God of peace de-
liver US.
Still llturther, 1 am opposed to this inva-
sion of the Sabbath because it is Unfair,
and it Is partial. While secular amuse-
ments in different cities are allowed to
be open on the Sabbath day, dry goods
establishments must bo closed, and
plumbing Establishments, and the butch
er's, and the bakers, and the shoemak-
er's, and the hardware stores. Now,
tell me by what law of justice you COM
pei a man to shut the door of his store
while you keep open the door ofyour
worldly establishment. May it please
your honors, judges Of the supreme court,
If you give to secular, places the right
to be open on the Sabbath day, you have
to give, at the same time, the right to
all commercial establishments to be open
aud to all mechanical establishments to
be open. If it is right in the one case,
| tits right IN all the cases.
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 [ say
that if men cannot manage their amuse-
ments without breaking the Lords day
they had better all be into bankruptcy
together. We will never surrender on
Christian Sabbath for the purpose OF
helping these vlolaters to pay their ex-
penses. Above all. my confidence 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 befrlend
Christian principle, and those who love
our political freedom, who stand 10 solid
phalanx in this Thermopy!e Of our
American history, for I believe as certain
" as | stand here that the triumph or
| overthrow of American institutions de
pends upon this Ssbbatic contest
Bring your voices, your pens, your
printing presses and your pulpits into
| the Lords artillery corps for the defense
of our holy day. Today in your families
and in your Sabbath schools recite, Re
| member the Sabbath day to keep il
holy" Decree before high heaven that
this war on your religious rights and the
cradles Of your children shall bring igno
| minious defeat to the enemies ot God and
the public veal. For those who die IN
the contest battling for the right we shall
cbisel the epitaph, "These are hey who
came cut Of great tribulatlon aud had
their robes washed and made white in
the blood of the lamb" But for that
one who shall prove in this mora crisis
recreant to God and the church there
shall be no honorable epitaph. He shall
not be worthy even Of a burial place is
all this free land. but the appropriate IN
terment for such a one would be to Car
rv out his remains and drop them into
| the sea, where the laWless winds which
keep 40 Sabbath may gallop over the
grave of him who lived and died a traitor
TO God, the church and the free lnstitu
tinns Of America. Long live The Chris
ton Sabbath! Perish forever all at
tempts to overthrow il!
Horrible Death.
MACON, June 22.-Mr. John Long, a
we'll known citizen and farmer Of Craw.
L. L L,