The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-14

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abstinence customs of the Buddhism and
onammedanism. One reason, in the
Judgment OF many. why these evils have
adequately recognized the promotion of
personal and social ethics as an integral
and Important part of its work.
A columbus discovered a neglected hem
isphere, so we are just discovering a neg-
lected hemisphere OF church work-the
hemisphere OF social ethics. This hemi-
nent, and not recognized in the eighteenth
century creeds and disciplines of our
churches, but only in more recent resolu-
tons, which are not law, but only advice.
The ink on the Presbyterian General As
sembly's resolution against admitting liquor
dealers into church membership was hardly
dry before a prominent Presbyterian church
that assembly resolutions are mere
advice. The three great denomina-
byterian Inc the United Presby-
terrain resolved that no Christian
man should vote for a license party, imme-
diately after which resolutions came the
denomination having a specific and binding
ethical c~reed-in this respect to be COM
ethical Developments Of this century, but
In pledging It's new members to avoid spe-
cifc Sins most frequently praeticed."
papers, and in its temperance pledge.
though a total-abstinence church in prac-
f fdssi includes, nSrn de only spurious is,t LIQUORS. a
@ o~t "a NhhtAyf
when fermented and malt liquors were con-
sidered temperance drinks.
SABBATH REFORM IN THIS CENTURY.
we are told that the complicated civili-
cation of the nineteenth century requires
that Sabbath observance and Sabbath laws
should be relaxed. Nay, this is a new rea-
son why they should be maintained and
strengthened Did Adam, to whom the Sab
bath law of work and rest was given before
the fall-did he, who knew nothing IF
'cut-throat competition and 'soulless cor
porations,' and hard masters and
wearying tricks of trade need a Sabbath
law more than we do to-day, when sin
has put its curse into the Edenic blessing
was reproclaimed. did those Hebrew herd
ers, moving on at three miles per hour,
need a law to protect them against the ov-
day, who drive their iron dragons a mile
a. minute with hand on the throttle, eye on
d Inc track, every power alert pa those
bee Elisha was called to be a prophet
have seen IN that region a modern blowing
ing together as they kept step with their
slow oxen, need a Sabbath law more than
the lumbermen in our Northwestern saw
mills, who saw one hundred thousand feet
of lumber a day, and must watch the swift
moving circular saw with closest attention,
lest it saw the lumberman in place of the
" Dlu IA ldTIn Ol DOdZ, WItIt Tic
friendly cooperation of labor and capital
left nothing to be desired-did hat and
other such places of that age require a Sab
bath law tor the protection of servants
more than it is required by the millions of
employees to-day, whose master is neither
man nor woman, neither brute nor hui
man. but the ghoul with a soul We call
corporation? Did Dorcas, sitting out in the
sunlight beside her cottage, distaff in hand,
leisurely spinning and weaving the coats
and garments for the little orphans that
MIA we'd at her foof-diH cho re0nire the nrO-
lection of a Sabbath law more than the
young girl of fourteen in a modern mill,
working a dozen hours per day in the close
air and changing noise, under a hard mas
ter?
Turning to the more recent times when
the foundations of this republic were laid
on the Bible. the Sabbath being assigned a
prominent place among American institu-
tions. did our fathers, when they lived half
a mile apart. curtained at night with the
tected quiet more, than their sons in the
tenements of to-day, where going to bed at
night is often Like the charge of the light
the nat at the right, noises in the, fiat at
the left. noises in the fiat below: the high
fddle-diddle of a midnight dance on the
just beyond the wall on the right; a piano
through the wall on the left making love
on that side and hate OIL this side at mid
night, while the fiat below does its share
in the torture by an early start on a fishing
excursion to murder sleep in the morning.
when nearly all the work was in the open
air, !. forest and field. was there no need
to protect the toilers' right to one days
release from labor. than now when many
thousands work at night and in the mine.
and thousands more in sitting shops? Is
there more excuse FOR keeping thousands
toiling On the Sunday mail now. when a
letter Is carried from New York, TO San
Francisco in five days. than in our fathers,
days when such a journey took five months?
Was there less excuse for our fathers TO is
sue Sunday papers when news crossed the
Atlantic in two months. than there is for
us when the news of Europe reaches US by
telegraph the day before it happens?
Every change In the world since the Sab
bath was instituted has been a new reason
why Gods Sabbath laws and ours should
not be changed. They came TO the kingdom
for such a time as this. More than ever be-
fore. we should see to il that neither our
selves nor others cause any Sunday work
except of necessity or mercy"