The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-29

HAL mas spiritual anu tiIiulordi liz
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 aro
born again they cannot see the King
dom of God? win the music of tho
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 benz
fetal influence. ought you not 20 allow
Christian institutions to have twenty
four hours? Is it unreasonable to de-
mand that if you have six days for tho
body and intellect, we should have one
day at least for our immortal soul? Or,
to put it in another shape, do you NOT
really think that our imperishable
soul is worth at least one-seventh as
much as our perishable body?
An artist has three gems-a comedian,
an amethyst and diamond. He has
to cut them and to set them Which
one is he the most particular about?
Now the comedian 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-hundredths 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 charities are collected.
l am opposed to the invasion of the
Sabbath, because il is war on our po-
litical institutions. When the Sa bbath
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. Sab
bath breaking means dissoluteness,
and dissoluteness is incompatible with
self-government. They wanted a re-
public in France. After awhile they
got 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 again; 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-
tions. Abolish the Sabbath and you
abolish your religious privileges.
Still further: am opposed to this
invasion of the Sabbath because it is
unfair, and it is partial. While secu-
lar amusements in different cities ara
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 a man to shut the
door of his store while you keep open
the door of your worldly establish
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 Z
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
call this day upon all those who be-
friend Christian principle, and those
vino love our political freedom, who
stand in solid phalanx in this Their
of our American history; for r
believe as certainly as / stand here
that the triumph or overthrow Of
American institutions depends upon
this Sabbatic contest.
Bring your voices, your pens. your
printing presses, and your pulpits into
the Lords artillery corps for the de-
tense of our holy day. To-day, in your
families and in your Sabbath schools,
-ecite: Remember the Sabbath day
20 keep it holy" Decree before high
Heaven that this war on your religious
tights and the cradles of your children
shall bring ignominious defeat to tina
enemies of God and the public veal.
For those who die in the contest bat
ling for the right we shall chisel
he epitaph: "These are they who
anne out of great tribulation, and
lad their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb" But
or that one who shall prove IN his
moral crisis recreant to God and the
hurch there shall be no honorable ep-
taph. He shall not be worthy even OF
! burial-place in all this free land; but
he appropriate interment for such an
me would be to carry out his remains
md drop them into the sea, where the
awless winds which keep no Sabbath
nay gallop over the grave of him who
ived and died traitor to God, thu
hurch, and the free institutions of
Imerica- Long live the Christial Sab
'ath. Perish forever all attempts to
verthrow it.