The San Francisco call., 1897-07-12

Mr.. Husband announced Speed Away"
amid the laughter of those who caught
on"
Mr.. Temple had considerable to say on
! Modern Forms of Sabbath Dissertation" j"
and was very vigorous in his denunciation
OF what he termed the prime evils in this
direction. He gave paraphrase of Shakes
peare's seven Ages OF Man" from Chris
tan stand point, which in a manner belled
his denunciation Of actors and people of
the stage.
The presence of sixteen policemen on
the platform Just before the address of
! Dr. Josiah Strong of New York on The
Civil Sabbath" afforded that gentleman a
! ood oolect lesson, and he began his adj
dress by saying that If all cities had such
men on their forces the Sunday laws
would be much better enforced every
where. After this tribute the doctor de-
| hned the difference between the divine
aud the human Sabbath, and showed how
most OF the arguments for and against
Sunday laws were based upon wrong
premises, and said that most Of those VINO
argued began win wrong basis of at
tack on and defense OF Sabbath laws He
said that Sabbath laws were not based on
the divine feature, but were the result of
physical necessity of the Individual.
be denied the right of any man TO
work on the Sabbath, even if ne desired
to, because he said those who did not wish
to work on that day had the right OF pro-
lection In their business, and if they did
not work. and some other man did he
would draw away all of the Sabbath
keepers custom. The man who deslred
10 rest on the Sabbath should be p-o-
tected from the com petition of the man
who preferred 10 chase after the dollar.
He said the trouble with the average
American was that he was in too much Of
hurry all The time, and illustrated this
by story OF missionary friend OF his
who went up The street in Constantinople,
and as he hurried along he passed group
alter group of men, and as he came
aoreast of them they called out something
to him In their own tongue. He finally
came to believe that they were offended
with him and were applying an epithet,
and asked friend who was with him
what they meant. The reply was that
they were exhorting him to ''go Slow"
Bohemian who came over to America
said that his first experience in this coun-
try-lt even began as he was going down
the gangway OF the steamer-was the
constant cry to him TO hurry up" This
was the characteristic of the American
who is always sorry that he was not born
twins, in order that he might crowd TWO
days work into one. IL was this spirit
that was responsible for much of the Sab
bath-breaklng in mercantile way.
He believed in the prohibition of GER.
tain amusements on Sunday. Not from a
divine standpoint, but because they were
immoral, and immortality was a menace
to the safety OF the State. Just as igno-
rance was a danger TO the State and the
State had the right to enforce her educa-
tional laws, SO it had the right to enforce
prohibitory laws against any amusement
that had tendency TO make people i'm
moral.
The amusing feature OF the address of
DR.. Stron came from behind the speaker,
for he oversteppeI his time and there was
slight sound from the buzzer The doc
tor was apparently deaf 10 it's admoni-
tions, for he continued TO talk. Then the
buzzer became more insistent, but it had
no effect. Louder came the buzz, until IL
sounded like the whirr of the tail of an
angry rattlesnake. The doctor was un-