The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-02
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modern missionary ship But when The
lSah century CLOSED these movements
wero all faint and feeble The twilight
csn'tnued for one-third OF the 1911, CEN
curry, Including 1881. That first third
ol The Century wac; q time OF swak
ing. But there was as yet no pern,a-
nert popular government in Europe!
Then the preacher spoke of the DAMN
fEg or the new era in 1882. Christ come
80 the world. he said, Dor "a years OF
greater words and works than MEN
could bear when he was upon Garth.
But the. goal is not yet reached. The
watchwoid is, On and ever on.
NEED OF SABBATH LAWS. /
We are told that ''the complicated
civilization of the 10Th century" requtr-
es that Sabbath observance and Sab
oath DAVIS should be relaxed. Nay,
t!llS rs Il new reason why, they should
be maintained and strengthened. Did
Adam, ITO whom The Sabbath law Of
work and rest was given before the
fiii--did lie, who knew nothing of cut
'thtout competition, and souiless cor
porGt(ons, and hard masters, and wea-
rying tricks of trade, need q Sabbath
law mere than we do to-day, when sin
has put It's curse into the Edenic bless
ing OF labor? AIT Sanai, where the Sab
ttauh raw was rsprSclaimcd, did those
ilcDraW herderS, moving Un at three
miles an hour, need q law ITO protect
them against the overstrain more than
the engineers of to-day, who drive their
iron dragons a mile a minute with hand
on the thrGttle, eye on Iahe track, every
Power alert? Did those dozen farmers,
from whose blowing bee elisha was
called to be u prophet have seen in
thalt region a modern blowing bee of Is
did WhoSe farmers. goSSiping together
as they kept step with their slow oxen,
need Il Sabbath law more than the mo-
tornlun who harnesses the lightning to
ms electric car, and drives through
crowded CITY streets. where u moments
inaJht enItion may cause the loss Of a
pedestrians life and his own position?
Did the farm Of Boaz, where ttile friend
ly co-uparMtion OF capital and labor left
nothing ito be desired-did that and
cWher such places Of !tEat age require a
S&bbs:uhh, law for protection OF servants
more than lit us required by the millions
OF employees to-day, whose master Is
neither man nor woman, mother brute
nor human" but the ghoul with 4 SOUL
we call corporation? Did DCrcas, sit
ting out in the sunlight beside her cot
taEe, dlstaff in hand, leisurely spinning
and weaving the coats and garments
TOT the little orphans tlralt played ,aJt her
feet-did She require the prC'teclaa-n of a
S'abbalhh law more Ftihan the young. girl
or ia in modern mill working Il dozen
hours per day in the chose air and
changing noise, under q hard master?
A GRAND DECISION.
turning to the more recent times
when the foundations of this republic
l1in n So L.
ing assigned prominent place among
American institutions, did our fathers,
when they lived half mile apart, cur
tanned at night with the soft velvet OF
silence. need day of protected quiet
more than their aons in the tencmer:s
OF to-day, where going to bed at night
is often like he Charge Of the light
brigade'-noises in the Nat above
noises in the fiat at the right, noises in
the fiat at the left noises in the Nat be-
low; the high hddle-diddle of a mid
'hShIt dance on the floor overhead; the
crash of family jar just beyond the
vail at the right; a piano tn: cough the
wall on the left making love on that,
side and hate on the other; while ;he fat
below does its share in the torture by
an early start on n fishng excursion TO
murder sleep in the morning?
When nearly all the work was in the
no need TO protect the oilers right 10
one days rc!oasA from laaor, t'lIa now
when many thousands work at night in
W." mine, and thousand. more III stiff
linz shops? Is trc:r more excuse for
Ike ping thousands .oii.nT on Tie Sun
day a. II lie POW %hs'N :, .i--" !: CARRIED
from New Nori san y .:.c'.- in FIVE
DAYS tan in u. "a he's Gays, when
sucn a nrAey ok rvn lNr"ths? Was
there less eSCu pu" :! rrs to issue
sunday paper aA = 3" "a the
~; -:rtio 90 :~sii :. p,,sn there is
for US whra IT," news IT ;..u'ppc reaches
us 10 iph lie cay before 1t hap
peiE?
Every c.!angc IN II. world since he
Sahiat' W" inst I'll = Ia been n, new
reason y GODS &. bath laws and
ours saould moi be Ella aged. They
came - he XII :SioG f. 'Fuch time as
this. Mere than tvs: .eiore, we should
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