The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-29

| good people. The Germans WnO spend their Sabbath in their peculiar way are good citizens, love their families, and as far as I know lead upright lives, and look forward to quite as good a hope in the future as their critics over the waters. for my part love the | New England Sabbath with it's quiet | and restfulness. The Germans should
 not be judged by our New England
 standpoint. Let them keep holy day.
 in their own land in their own way their Sabbath is a plant of German
 soil. I hope it will never flourish in | New England, but even there the Sab bath is far removed from the Sabbath | of our predecessors. The old New Eng ! land Sabbath had about 1t much of cold, strong sterility, not unlike it's
 cold, strong granite boulders. I con slider it one of the greatest privileges to
 get into the parks and fields on the | Sabbath-best of all days. The best
 of all places think to study the good ness and wonderful handiwork of God | is beneath green trees, among beauti- ful flowers growing by the side of gen. tie streams as they slowly convey their waters to the great ocean beyond. A thoughtful man can See God in every
 twig and every flower. The parables
 of our Lord were often suggested by objects observed in the quiet seclusion
 removed from heated cities. How
 many thousands cross oceans and con-
 tinents to see the beautiful handiwork
 of man. Surely Gods glorious works
 can be seen in every forest and in
 lakes and on bright mountain sides.
 All the art, skill and cunning of man
 cannot produce even daisy with it's
 wonderful secrets of cell circulation.
 Even Solomon in all his glory was not
 arrayed" equal to those lilies that
 grow among the stones on the plain of
 sharon, By all means let us get into
 the pleasant woods and fields on the
 Sabbath (during some part of that holy
 day) remembering that our Lord him.
 self went on the Sabbath day through
 the corn," and His followers rubbed
 out the golden grains from the ears
 which they had plucked, and ate. Even
 then the Pharisees called them Sabbath
 breakers, and those same Pharisees re-
 marked to our Lord who had healed
 the man with the withered hands, that
 it was not lawful to heal on the Sab
 bath day,
 A Scotch clergyman who had resided
 long in a German city told me that he
 was invited to atterd a prayer meet ing, and, of course, be attended prompt ly. He was much surprised to find the meeting held in a large room where the omnipresent glasses of beer were passing up and down among the people who had assembled. At 8 o'clock the good pastor appeared arrayed in black having a roll under his arm covered with g black cloth; he marched through the assembly and mounted the plat l form. At once he opened his roll and laid his manuscript on the desk. There 1 was no invocation, no hymn sung, not 1 even d remark was made; the pastor l began discourse keeping his eyes all l the time upon his paper, at various times the.good man would turn square | around facing the wall behind him, and then he would very loudly blow his | nose; after reading for nearly and hour, l the end of the discourse was reached, 1 the divine quickly rolled up the pa | per in It's sombre envelope, placed it | under his arm and solemnly marched | with Saxon precision out of the room | The meeting was over. I have narrat- | ed the above as nearly as possible in | the words of the clergyman who re- | peated it to me.
 When a public holiday falls upon | Saturday the German law allows all | shop keepers to open their shops and | sell their wares on the Sunday which | follows. It is a singular and not in- sight to see the shops wide open" on the Sabbath crowded with | Beer restaurants and ci- gar stores are kept open all day Sun day
 Grocery stores, and bread and cake stores, are opened always on Sunday | from to p. n., and this is q boon | to housekeepers, for they buy supplies daily, and rarely ever have anything | eatable in their houses over night, But I suspect they are never caught short on drinkables.
 The authorities are very careful in the transportation of powder and ex- plosives. A few moments ago saw a great wagon pass along the street tightly covered and two flags flying from short poles above the cart, on | each flag was large letter P, twenty feet behind and the same distance in front marched two policemen as a guard. An interesting sight in pree- len is the large number who nightly at- tend the opera, When I do not at .end I like to sit on my balcony and watch the opera-goers roll by; they come from many lands and represent many nations. Ladies from Russia Il italy, France, America, England and from every English colony n the world, even from Australia and New Zealand can be seen here nightly Il The Dresden opera has been great magnet to attract large numbers of TO- aries for upwards of two centuries. Many people spend the winter here merely for the advantages to be oB- aimed at the opera house.
 Music pervades Germany from one md of the Empire to the other, and ( music, too, of the very highest order. The Military band of music, with many performers visit city after city, living grand concerts, and their splen- lid soloists upon the cello, violin, harp, | ,iano and cornet are delight to lis- en to. These musical visitaHons com hence in May and continue until Octo- Ter. These migratory bands of music s emind me of the Swallows which. out li