The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-07-17
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TIE SABBATH IN EUROPE

n,raas hept," making cos,
par'son between the past and Gun.
parl'cularlyan Holland. Belgi u'e's ~
German Empire Austrian Tv''a lAs
Northern Italy, with incids ~" and
marks about the rest Of ,le : 70
nent. We extract some If i. OoAtt
mcntS: STATE.
Public labor goes on as 0,n.,
year round. Beer, wine ,na ""' Vie
n" coniincntal suuday.scl%, Open ,,,l
IL o'clock in the morning, bears s, a''
resemblance to our Amer;.s"
bath. Secular amusemcnts Dab
has a larger part Of the time ana
slbly Il majority Of The renplo rs'
c''rslons' pleasure parties. t,.' IA
meetings in summer. and general m" W.
ol-door Festivities, and in the crsn, aa''
theatres and concert halls O, @''s'
their chief attractions "'Sn'
lie Things that in Europe mor, !.
attend tlh Roman Catholic ,s. nNh
than formerly, but believes that Il :,
suits from the separation Of na'','''
and religion. lie finds thai eD'n,' "ae'
generally deprecate Sunday w'..
as inimical to the employer md m''
measure d'moralizing totl,ccmpIOr.a
Belgium and France have made II.
most progress in Sabbath ,s.,
Freight dcpots are nov closed ~,
from Fifteen to sixteen mud
trains annually have been diye..
tinued. Station and freight ,,oo,,
have an average Of thirty DAYS rcS, il
a year; railway porters, one Sabbath
outof every two or three; all can h,yo
two hours free for church if they wish
In the large towns Of Frame maOv
shops are closed all day Sabbath. In
the French army Sunday is A day If
rest. BY 4 Belgium law, Noyemhs,
z, ls92, one day Of rest each week Is
guaranteed to women and children
There are no Sunday newspapers IN
Holland. Shops must lie closed in
Denmark by o in the morning, Where
work has to be done. each workman
is free every other Sabbath.
In the matter of Sabbath rest, Mar.
way and Sweden are nearer To I'm
United States of America than any
other country, All shops and factor.
les close on the Sabbath. no alrolm]lc
beverages are allowed to be sold from
Saturday at b p. m. to Monday at sa.
M: no street railways run after noon
on the Sabbath. In Switzerland. in
most or the contons, shops are re.
Quircd To be closed on the Sabbath,
AM Sabbath rest is guaranteed to
Workmcn in large establishments: no
freight trains are run; tlfiy-two Inli.
days are given annually by law to
every employee Of railroads, steam.
boats, Street-car roads and post Offices,
seventeen OF which must be Sabbath.
The changes which he presents are
not based on religious grounds, to any
extent, but ON economic.
The concluding garag raph is:
Continental Europe can teach the
United States little about The OBJ
scrvancc of the Sabbath which ii is
desirable for us TO know. Its rcIls.
iOus o~bscryanccs and habits are en-.
different things in its outward
form from American Professionalism,
Just us the manners of the people,
their habits OF eating and drinking,
and their relations to law. and govern
mrnt are different from ours. ltS
certainly as reasonable 10 0blIge .
German who comes to New YORK 10
observe its Sunday laws until thy
are changed, as it is for the German
government to oblige an American
who comes tO live in Berlin to observe
It's weekday laws. 10 each the laws
of the foreign country may seem uH
wise and oppressive; but 1t is only u
America that the forcign-born lhhao'
tan rcsists and seeks to overthrow
Or persistcntly violates the law. ANY
New Yorker who undertook to break
The law in Hamburg or Munich VI
as it is done over ana OWL
igain by men who have come from eo'.
bincntal Europe to live in the uh'n
States. would find the strong manu-
If the German Empire upon I't"''
There is nothing in American oV''''
avs which is half so oppressive
ire many of the domestic rcqn'V
nents OF GQmany, How many A'sr
cans won consent to insure Wv
ives OF lkcir>crvants at the oen''m
If tire UrVtpinent, or pay a rss .'s,
lax to support Il church in which Wv,
10 not believes: And yet t'cic
hundreds of regulations oheyeu "'
natter of course on the cohllncn'"
europe. Sabbath-keeping' as c"'.~
ID by law In the United States, - WV
IT the ligltcst Of burdens on 'n,. .m
.cn. and IL insurcs him personal rev
# body and Of mind, better '',..l.
ron Ills employees, If he is a p''nt,
,af! ma more wages, taking tue !ta
ound, and better health II he
,orcr, than seven days labor ~
worth while for American ~
ems to throw away a system v'''e'
las worked so well in the pas' ~" a..
lcr to try the very doubtful oc''a Nv
a continental Sabbath, pas'tu ',..
Ter very different conditions, ny la"'
,ducntcd and trained under h""s