The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-25

| he most particular about Now the cor
nelian is the body, the amethyst is the IN
tellect. the diamond is the soul. For the
/ two former you propose six days ofOppor-
tunity, while you offer no opportunity at
\ all for the last. which is in value as COM
| pared with the others like one hundred
| thousand million dollars to one far
I thing. Besides, you must not forget
I that nine-tenths, ay, ninety-nine one
/ 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 hospitals and the
/ prisons are visited by Christian men.
/ That is the day when the youth Of our
country get their chief religious infOrma-
/ ton in Sunday schools. That is the day
1 when the most of the charities are col
/ lected. That is the day when, under the
/ blast of sixty thousand American pulpits,
! the sin Of the land is assaulted and men
are summoned to repent When you make
war upon any part of Gods day, you make
war upon the asylums, and the peniten-
tiaries ard the hospitals, and the reform
associations, and the homes of the desti-
tute, and the church of the living God,
which is the pillar and the ground of
the truth.
l am opposed to the invasion of the
Sabbath, because it is a war on our polit-
zeal 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 DISCO
luteness is incompatible with self-gov-
eminent They wanted a republic in
France. After awhile they got a repub-
lie; but one day Napoleon Ill, with his
cavalry, rode through the streets, and
down went the republic under the clat-
tering hoofs. They have a republic
there again; but France never will have
a permanent republic until she quits her
registering SabDaths, 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 go on, and
you have 1.-THE commune" and you have
THE revolution aud you have the sun
of national prosperity going down in
darkness and blood. From that reign of
terror may the God of peace deliver US.
Still further: l am opposed to this in
vasion of the Sabbath, because it is I'M
fair, and it is partial. While secular
amusements in different cities are al
lowed TO be open on the Sabbath day, dry
goods establishments must be closed, and
plumbing establishments, and the butch
er's 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 estab-
lishment. 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, and to all me-
chanical establishments to be open. If it
is right in the one case it is 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 amusements
without breaking the Lord day, they
had better all go into bankruptcy to-
gether. We will never surrender our
Christian Sabbath for the purpose of
helping these violators 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 befriend
Christian principle, and those who love
our political freedom, who standsi in solid
phalanx in this Thermopyl9 of our Amer
lean history; for l believe as certainly as
| stand here that the triumph or over
throw of American institutions depends
upon this sabbatic contest.
Bring your voices, your pens, your
printing presses, and your pulpits into
of our holy day. To-day, in your families
and in your Sabbath schools, recite: ere
member 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 de-
feat to the enemies of God and the public
veal, For those who die in the contest
battling 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
prove in this moral crisis recreant to God
and the church there shall be no honor
able epitaph. He shall not be worthy
even of burial-place in all this free
land; but the appropriate intermert for
such an one would be to carry out his re-
mains 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 a traitor to God, the
church, and the free institutions of
America. Long live the Christian Sab
bath. Perish forever all attempts to
overthrow it,