Connecticut western news., 1894-06-28
A Spiritual Necessity.

" HUI O1 tu6 SSCuIt1 udllS tAiO OaD-
 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 24 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 1t 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 l is the intellect, the diamond is the soul | For the two former you propose six days | of opportunity, while you offer no op- portunity at all for the last, which is in value as compared with the others like | S100, 900, 900, 900 to farthing. Besides | you must not forget that nine tenths- | aye, ninety mine one- e-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 pitals 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 Amert- 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 Thiniss- I am opposed to the invasion of the | Sabbath because 1t 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 dissoluteness, and dis | l,,ta ,c, l,l ernment. They wanted republic in
 France. After awhile they got repub- lio, but one day Napoleon III, with his
 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 8 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 l 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 1 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 butcher's, 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 1t | please your honors, judges of the su- | preme court, if you give to secular | places the right to be open on the Sab
 bath day, you have to give, at the same time, the right to all commercial es- | tablishments 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 For 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 | 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 call this day upon l all those who befriend Christian princi- l pie, and those who love our political | freedom, who stand in solid phalanx In | this Thermopyl@ of our American his
 tory, for believe as certainly as I 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- fense 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 | tling for the right we shall chisel the | epitaph, "These are they who came out | of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of | the Lamb. " But for that one who shall l prove in this moral crisis recreant to God and the church there shall be no honorable epitaph. He shall not be
 worthy even of a burial place in all this
 free land, but the appropriate interment
 for such one would be to carry out
 his remains and drop them into the sea,
 where the lawless winds which keep no
 Sabbath may gallop over the grave of
 him who lived and died traitor to | God, the church and the free institu- I tions of America Long live the Chris l tian SahhathI Par;ch forozro.r