The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-06-30

VINO spent your childhood under the shadow
OF the Adrondacks or the Catskills. We who
were born on the banks of the Savannah or
Un'o ,n or Oregon, how doyo feel about Civ
ing up the American Sabbath? You saw
We shall not give II up. We mean to de-
iend 1t as long as there is left any strength
IN our arm or blood in our heart Do not
Sr,ng your Spanish Sabbath here. Do not
bring your French Sabbath here DO NOT
bring your foreign Sabbath here. II shall be
for us and for our children forever a
pure. consecrated, Christian, American Sab
bath"
L VIII make comparison between the
american Sabbatb, as some of You have
known It, AMI the Partisan Sabbath. Jspe,k
from observation. On sabbath mora!ng I
was aroused in Paris by n great sound in the
street. | said, what Is this?" "Oh" they
said, this Is sunday" An unusual rattle
OF vehicles OF all sorts The voices seemed
more bo'sterous than on other days. People
running TO and fro. with baskets or bundles
10 get TO tue rail trains or gardens IL seemed
as II all the web 'cles In Paris, of whatever
sort, had turnei out for the holiday. The
Champs Elysees one great mob OF pleasure
seeking people. Balloons flying Parrots
chattering. Footballs rolling pedtijers
hawking their knickknacks through the
streets. Punch and Judy shows in n score OF
places, each one with shouting audience
Hand organs, oymbals and every kind OF
'"SNN'' "uSlChi UnmuSIcH'. when the
evening came down, all the theaters were in
iuil blaze OF music and full blaze of light
Inc wine stores AMI saloons were thropved
with an unusual number OF customers At
eventide stood and watched the excursion
lists coming home, tagged out men, women
and children, a gulf stream OF fatigue, irrIta-
biiity and wretchedness, for I should think
II would take three or four days TO get over
that miserable way Of Sundaying II seemed
m0rH Ike an American Fourth OF July than
Christian Sabbath.
Now, In contrast present one OF the Sab
baths IN one OF our best American cities.
holy silence coming down with the day
lawn business men more deliberately look
ing into the faces OF their children and talk
ing to them about their present and future
welfare. Men sit longer At Inc table in toe
morning, because the stores are not to be
opened, and the mechanical tools are not To
he taken up. hymn IL 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 Col, vocal with
Thanksgiving for mercies received with
prayer for comfort, with charities for the
poor. Rest for the holy. Rest for the soul.
The nerves quIetei. the temples cooled. the
mind cleared, tho soul strengthenei, AMI
our entire population turned out on Monday
morning ten years younger. better prepared
for the duties OF the life, better prepared for
the life that is to come.
Which do you like best American
Sabbath or the Partisan Ssbbath2 Do YOU
know In what boat the Sabbath came across
the seas and landed on our shores? II was
In the Mayhower. Do you know I'm what
boat the Sabbath will leave ia, II II ever
goes II will be I'm the ark that floats over a
deluge OF national destruction
stu further, ! protest against the Invasion
oil the Lords day because II wrongs ypst
multitude OF employees OF their rest. The
play actors and actresses can have their rest
hair an on anita h,,s Iu
the scene shifters. the ballet dancers ths
"allboys. tho innumsrable attendants and
supernumeries OF the American theatre2
Where Is their Sunday 10 come from They
are paid small salaries at the best Alas.
for them They appear on the stage In tinsei
and tassel with halber Is, or In gauze whirl-
ing In toe tortures, aud they might be mis-
taken for fairies or queens, but after o clock
NJ night you may see them trudsIng through
the streets in faded dresses, ehiyerino AMI
tired, bundle under their arms, seeking
their homes In the carrots anl 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 sCke, let the crushing jugger-
naut stop at least one day In seven.
Again. oppose this modern invasion OF
the Christian Sabbath because II IL a war on
the spiritual welfare OF the people. You
have body2 Yes. You have n mind2 Y.s
You have n soul2 Yes. Which OF the secular
balls on the Sabbath day will give that soul
any culture2 Now, admitting that a man
has spiritual and immortal nature which
one Of the places of amusement will culture
M Which one OF the Sabbath performances
will remind men OF the fact that unless they
are born again they cannot see the kingdom
OF God2
will the music of the Grand Duchess"
help people at last to sing the song OF the
one hundred and forty and four thousandp
Besides, II you gentlemen OF tho secular en-
tertainment have six days I'm tho week in
which to exercise your alleged beneficial In
huence, ought you not TO allow Christian in
stnutions to have twenty-four hours7 Is II
unreasonable TO demand that II you have SIX
days for the body and intellect we should
have ono day nj least for our immortal soul?
or, to put II In another shape, do you really
think our imperishable soul is worth at
least one-seventh as much as our perlshable
body
An artist has threc gems-a corneiian, an
amethyst and n diamond. IIe has to cut
them and 20 set them. Which one Is no
most particular aboutT Now. the corneliau
is the body. the amethyst is the intellect, the
diamond is the soul For the two former
YOU propose ak days OF opportunity, while
YOU offer no opportunity nt all for the last
which Is I'm value ~ compared with tho
others like 800. 900 900 900 TO one farthing
Bes'dee YOU must not forget that nineteenth,
aye. ninety-nine one-huniredths- nj;
IN" Christian efforts OF this country are nut
forth on the Lords day. Sunday IL the day
on which the asylums and hospitals and tho
prisons are visited by Christian meu. That
IL the day when the youth Of our country
get their religious information In SUNDAY
srho Dls. That is the day when the most OF
the charities are collected. That Ia the day
when. under the blast Of 60, 900 American
pulpits. the sin OF the lani - assaulted and
men are summoned 10 regent When you
make war upon any part OF Gods day, you
make war upon the asylums. and the peni-
t"ntaries, and the hospitals, and the reform
associations, aud the homes OF the destitute,
aud the church ofthe living God. which IL
the pillar and the ground OF the truth.
am opposed to the invasion OF the Sab
hath because II IL war or our political in.
stuutions. When the Sabbath goes down
the republic goes down. Men who are not
willing to obey Gods law in regard 10 Sab
bath observance Rre not fit 10 govern them
selves. Sabbath breaking means dissoluts-
ness, and dissoluteness IL incompatible with
self government. They wanted n republic In
France. Alter awhile they got n republic
but one day Napoleon III, with hts cavilry
rode through the streets, and down went the
republic under the ciattering hoofs. They
have republic there again. but France
never Will have permanent republic unfit
she quits her roist terinC S1bbR, his AMI devotes
one day In every week TO the recognition OF
God aud sacred institutions. Abolish the
Sabbath, and you abolish your religious
pTiVilpUpg 4 at Ia huH