The Globe-republican., 1894-06-29


call boys. the innumerable attend
ants and supernumeraries of the
American theater? 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 the tortures, and
they might be mistaken for fairies or
queens: but after 1e 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 thousands of these en-
plcyes 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: l oppose this modern iuva-
sion of the Christian sabbath because
it is a 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
man has spiritual and immoral ma
ture. which one of the places of amuse-
ment 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 King
dom of God? Will the music of the
Grand Duchesse" help people at last
to sing the song of the one hundred
and forty and four thousand? Besides,
, if you gentlemen of the secular enter
, tainment have six days in the week in
; which to exercise your alleged bene-
fetal influence. ought you not to allow
Christian institutions to have twenty
four hours? Is it unreasona bic 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?
An artist has three gems-a cornelian.
an amethyst and diamond. He has
to cut them and to set them. Which
one is he the most particular about?
Now the cornelian is the body. the
amethys the intellect. the diamond is
the soul. For the two former you pro-
pose six days of opportunity, while you
offer no opportunity at all for the last.
which is in value as compared with the
rest like one hundred thousand million
dollars to one farthing. Besides, you
must not forget that nine-tenths. aye.
ninety-nine one-hundreIths of all the
Christian efforts Of this country are
put forth on the Lords day. Sunday
is the day on which asylums and the
hospitals and the prisons are visited by
Christian men. That is the day when
the youth of our country get their
chief religious information in Sunday
schools. That is the day when most of
the c.larit;es are collected.
l am opposed 70 the invasion of the
Sabbath. because ii is 4 war on our po-
litical institutions. When the Sa bbath
goes down. the republic goes down.
Men who are not willing to OBJ, Gods
law in regard to Sa bbath observance
are not fit to govern themselves. Sab
bath breaking means dissoluteness.
and dissoluteness is Incompatible with
self-governEent. They wanted a re-
public in France. After awhile they
got a republic: but one day Napoleon
I'LL. with his cavalry. rode through the
streets. and down went the republic |
under the Gathering hoofS They have |
a republic there gain: but France never |
will have permanent republic until |
she quits registering Sabbaths and |
devotes one day in every week to the |
recognition of God and sacred institu-
IL, H., AoL
abolish your religious privileges.
Still further: lam opposed to this |
invasion of the Sabbath because it is |
unfair. and it is partial. While secu-
lar amuseneHts in different cities are
allowed to be open on the Sabbath day.
dry goods establishments must be
closed. and plumbing establishments.
and the butchers and the bakers. and
the shoemaker's and the hardware
stores. Now. tell me by what law of
justice you compel man to shut the
door of his store while you keep open
the door of your worldly esta blish-
ment.
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
without breaking the
Lords day. they had better all go into
bankruptcy together. We will never
sure nder our American Sabbath for
the purpose of helping these vio-
lators to pay their expenses 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 be-
friend Christian principle, and those
who love our political freedom. who
stand in solid phalanx in this Their
of our American history: for
believe as certainly as l stand here
that the triumph or overthrow of
American institutions depends upon
this Sa bbatic contest
Bring Your voices. your pens. your
printing presses. and your pulpits into