Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-09-11
THE RAMBLER.

I'M nAMoLhhs
The Democrat National Administra-
tiOn has had it's exit and Cleveland. its
head went q fishing. In it's stead has
arisen a Republican administration,
and Mckinley, its head is on a sight
seeing and inhaling rural air tour.
JUST WANTS TO KNOW.
How many more of the eight mil
lions Americans Of African descent are
employed, appointed by the Mckinley
administration than were by the Cleve-
land administrations How many col |
ored persons OF such descent were os-
tracised at St. Louis at the national
Republican conventionl How many
are yet ostracised from Maine TO Cali
tornia; from the Lakes TO the Gulf?
IL the colored voters-I say colored
because do not believe that there is
a Negro IN the nation would cease TO
vote with the Republican party until
it recognizes their rights to something
else besides voting. To be held as
voter, and when the election is over,
to be bid: 'Avaunt ! and quit my sight
thy bones are marrowless until next
election
WORD ABOUT SUNDAY TRAVELLING.
Sabbath decorators, Sabbath tray-
ellers, Sabbath breakers, Sabbath re-
creationists seem to carry the the day
among our religious people. Some of
their ministers run excursions on Sun
day and some of their religious papers
publish Sunday excursions and some of
churches welcome Sunday excursion
lists, ministers and laymen to their
houses of worship and to their pulpits.
To where are we drifting? Where is
the Christians light? Where is the salt
that has not lost its SAVIOR? Who are
the examples in righteousness to the
fiocks? Who is standing in the old
paths exclaiming, This is the way,
walk ye in it?"
must be careful how talk and
write for fear Sunday excursions lead
by ministers may be up to date and /
be pronounced an old fogy, disturb
er of Zion.
PROPOSITION TO DEPosE THEM.
A question arises. Suppose a senti-
ment should arise te deDose from the
gospel ministry, those preachers, pas
tors who run Sunday excursions and
thus violate Gods command ;"Remem
Der the Sabbath day to keep it holy "
sin can cast stones at Sunday excur-
sion preachers, pastors, etc.7 Can
those pastors who left the Convention
at Salem, last May on Saturday night,
Sunday and Sunday night, thus trav-
cling on Sunday, sit in judgement on
Sabbath breaking, or Soul like hold
the clothes of those who stone the
Sabbath breakers7
THE soRrPTrRR oryorRD-
What can ministers or editors of
papers who publish notices OF Sunday
excursions say against such.
Truly the lines have fallen in tender
places, vital goodness and sound moral
ity, hid by some under a busheI, the
new theology gone to seed, higher
criticism struts the ramparts, the
lives, examples, doctrine and practice
of heather philosophers with all their
! love for lasciviousness, mirth, revelry
and love for self murder. are held up
to Us by some lawyers and doctors for
as to initiate, to copy. He that will
not leave his first love, and draw back
to perdition, is told that wise men
change, but fools never change. Yes
wise men change. Solomon with all of
his wisdom changed from being a
monogamist to polygamist from being
TIC n0cUAAu VI On0 WlaCt W tli0 nus
band of seven hundred wives and three
hundred concubines. 1 suppose some
of our Instructors would have us do
like Solomon, and not be steadfast and
immovable in the faith, and not say
like Paul: II am become a fool, /
speak as fool, as q fool receive me,
-ecome fools for Christ sake"
AFTER THE PREACHERS.
The Sunday travelling preachers,
who left the convention travelling on
Sunday, and other ministers who do
the same as g palliation for their mis-
deeds and pernicious example, tell us
it is lawful to do good on Sunday,
that they are going to see after their
lambs and sheep and keep them from
the devouring wolves Flimsy excuses.
Who feeds, protects and defends their
fiocks while they are off on a vacation,
shooting, fishing and at ease in Zion?
The Sunday excLrsionists say that
they are doing good. While they do
not present the OK in the mire yet they
say that the good book says: "Get wis
DOM" we 60 to get wisdom by sight
seeing, to innale pure air. to look upon
new scenes; we 60 to see our fathers,
our mothers, our brothers. our sisters,
our aunts, our n eces, our nephews,
our COUSINS, AnN WDOmSO6Ner Will
look upon us and let us look on them.
THE EXCUSES AS GIVEN.
We go to hear = strange preacher,
we are tired of hearing one bell all the
time. A change of pasture is good
We are tired of a dull, monotonous
life. Thus they reason from Dan to
Barshebs, from Jerusalem to Jericho,
in behalf of their Sunday excursioning
and not keeping the day holy. 1t is
clear that they can produce a strong
reasoning, and produce as tangible
evidence in their behalf as ministers.
pastors, missionaries, colporters and
ministers who publish Sunday excur-
sion notices. can produce in their be-
half for travelling on Sunday. Many
denounce Grecian and Roman MythoI
ogy, and yet they bow in reverence
and with all the zeal of votary TO
the German god of Sabbath desecra-
ton. Many are more Turner's, Anar-
chists, Socialists and reLrobates, than
they are Baptists, MethOdists, Episco-
palians and Presbyterians, although
they a. g members in such churches.