The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-10-05
THERE Is NO SABBATH. 4
What. Was Such Died With
Judaism and Should Be
50 Recognized.

If Misguided People rIust Have
the Sabbath They Must Re-
| build the Temple.
A Day OF Rest Is r1ockery, a
Delusion, ii 1t Is to Be a
Day Of Gloom.
| In ST. Andrews Cathedral, Little Rock,
Ark, recently Rev. Dr., Callaghan, one
| Of the best known priests in the diocese,
came out squarely against the Epworth
League movement to close up all stores
on Sunday. His congregation was large
ly made up of nun-C Catholics, and it was
evident that his position met with unan-
imous approval.
"At times said DR.. Callaghan, there
passes over American society spasmodlc
frenzy in its (religious despotis1n's) be
half-a blind, foolish pernicious effort to
| impose upon freed Christian souls and re-
deemed society the yoke Of which St.
Peter said, in condeunning the Pharisees,
the slave drivers of Israel, That neither
they nor their fathers could bear They
speak Of the Sabbath, these sincere,
| we'll meaning but misdirected people,
and it's violation. There is no Sabbath.
It died with Judaism. 1t perished with
the sacrifice of the temple. The tempor-
ary day of worship, with all its accidental
ordinance, perished with the fgurative
typical worship. The major included the
minor, the greater contained the less. II
the Mosaic law, as the Christian must
admit, perished by the hand Of God, who
only made it a preparation for something,
then into the same grave fell its law of
worship and with that law its ceremo-
nfes. There is no Christian Sabbath.
It is a misno omer; it is a contradiction 1T
is an attempt to unite a past dispense
tion with the eteamal-to wed the dead
with the living. IL III
eff those the trend Of whose zeal is to
re-establish what divine power over
threw would be consistent, they must
bring back with the Sabbath the Worship
of the Sabbath. II they would be con-
sistent they must rebuild the temple
and re-erect its altar and offer again ami
mails in sacrifice If they, cease to be
guided by the law of the Christian dis
pensation and prefer to be Leyitical, be
Levitical in all things. They cannot run
with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
There is no lrnion save of shadow and
substance between the Sabbath and
Christian Sunday There never was any
relation except the relation OF destroyer
and destroyed"
Dr. OaAlaghan claimed and quoted from
the Bible to sustain his claim that Sun
day, the first day of the week, was es-
tablished as a day of worship not by
Christ of His disciples, but by the Cath
olic church.
s.To that divine organization, the Cath
olic, was given the law OF worship, and
she alone decreed and she alone had the
right to decree that Sunday, the first day
of the week, should be the future day Of
religious Worship.
$50 much for the religious aspect Of
the Christian Sunday" he said.
t..Brrt is has a civil aspect. The civil
Sunday, a day of rest is an American in
stitution. They who attack it Or violate
it are aggressors against American free
dom. It is sacred and inviolate 1t is
one Of the treasures Of the ark of liberty
and should be scrupulously watched and
guarded, On what grounds, then, does
the State make Sunday distinct from
other days as a day Of rest of cessation
from ordinary labor, and affix to it Ger
tain. reuuir rements binding upon the citi-
zens Of the State? On religious grounds?
No. The American State has nothing to
do with religion, except to secure to all
religious freedom there is here no union
of church and state. The civil Sunday
is established solely and justly for the
temporal welfare, benefit, well-being and
elevation of the citizen BY this end all
its legislation is limited It has no right
to go any further. It is despotism pure
and simple; it is un-American and un-
constitut tional when it attempts to force
q civil Sunday as a religious ordinance.
The just Sunday law can have only
two legitimate purposes These fulfilled,
its scope and validity and binding forces
cease. It is bound to secure, in harmony
with American principles, the freedom
Of religious worship, to secure that pub
lie decorum, that freedom from the noise
Of labor and traffic which religious wor-
ship by its nature demands That is the
first object The second object Of the law
is to promote the welfare of the citizen.
Does it or can it command rest because
the decalogue requires it, because rest on
tn at day is a religious ordinance? Not
at all. 1t would be an assumption Of
authority which does not belong to 1t.
This would invest the state with the.
power and dignity of a reli gious teacher
This would be a revival of Caesaro-Pa
ism Of the sixteenth century, the 'legit-
innate offspring of Professionalism that
aimed from the beginning to enforce its
religious tenets by State authority. The.
,state enjoins Justly cessation OF labor
solely for the vel fare of the community
Experience has taught that the Wealth
and well-befng Of the individual and so
ciety Increases and Is advanced by a day
of rest. A day free from ordinary toll
must be given to recruit the health Of the
body, restore Its energies, preserve its
yigor, give to man, who is a social ami
NAL, an, opportunity to 81 renew and
strengthen his relations to the family,
which Is the found dation of the Christian
state. The state has a right to punish
any mterefrence with that Eestt. ' IF ID
s$ 's'sIf, then, the state establdshes the civil
Sunday for: the welfare of \ the citizen,
itscan never he the intent or purpose Of
any Sunday law to iffninish Of destroy
that welfare. Such an act " wotId be To-
Snullifs TO- destroy Its own legislation; !;
like Saturn to deVour it's own chiIdre
The state by law estab bIished sewerage ID
mi sanitary measure. 81 9It cannot be any
statute law clog the sewer and spread
I,esti ilenco and deaf lls II y state sayss tos
the citizen the Sunday laaT US appointed
sfor your annot advance hiss
sH Hare sifs him fe est c0nf