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social advantages, which great and good
men have attributed to the observance OF
Sunday as day OF rest, would be taken
away.
there is nothing inconsistent with the Con-
stitution, as 1t was understood at the time
of it's adoption, with the law compelling the
observance of Sunday as day of rest. The
Constitution itself recognizes that day as a
day of rest, and from the circumstances
under which it was done. we are warranted
in the opinion that a power 10 compel
cessation OF labor on that day was not de-
signed to be withheld from the General As
s~A..oIy.
.'Second-A law compelling the observance
of Sunday as a day of rest has always been
in force under our State government. A
license granted by the State must be con-
strued in reference to this law A dram
shop keeper who should open his shop and
entertain his customers on Sunday, as ON
other days, would violate the Lord s-day
act. He is in no worse condition so far as
the authority to sell on Sunday is concerned,
because the offense of keeping open dram
shop on that day is specially denounced by
an act of Legislature. That act was passed.
not because TO keep open a drinking house
on Sunday was no O1fenSe, but that Such
offense might be visited by heavier pen
atty than was inflicted for violation OF the
ord s-day act The argument against this
view of the subject is founded in a mistake
as to the Sunday law of 1885. The penalty
for violation of that act was nVe, ana not
fifty dollars, as stated. "
Judge Scott delivered the opinion OF the
court; the other judges, concurring, the
judgment will be affirmed.
Now, the law of Sabbath rest is not
Jewish law, as many suppose, but 1t had
existed from the time of Adam and was OBJ
served by mankind long before the time OF
Moses. And God, giving the law by Moses,
said: Remember the Sabbath day., plain
ly intimating that the law had been in ex-
istence before, and the Jews were admon-
ished to not forget it. Now, GOD knew
what the man He had made needed. Inere
is no continued action of the function OF
any organ in the body. There IS PERIOD
of repose or rest between each effort. The
voluntary muscles that are under the con-
troll of the will show by sensation or
tredness that there must be period or re-
pose for regeneration. The Involuntary
muscles as the heart, make TOT themselves
a period of repose after each contraction;
the hearts period of repose is short, but 50
is its action, and it is sufficient. therefore,
knowing what was best for man, God COM
manded him to rest one day In seven, or
one-seventh of the time, and the natural
division of time for us is into days OF twen-
ty-four hours each; therefore. God blessed
the seventh day ard hallowed 1t, ana APP
pointed it for day OF rest Tor mentaI an 1S
physical recuperation. Where the SABBATH
of rest is not observed man always suffers
the consequences in mental and pnyslcal
degeneration. This division of time OF seven
DAYS is a marked feature of the Mosaic
law, and the institution OF the Saopath mas
been clearly recognized down through the
We can find, too, evidence of its obserVa-
ton in the dim, dusty record or the past,
even, with heather nations they g re IN I'M
Babylonian tablets, compiled by Sargon,
King of Agane, in the sixteenth century (B:
c. this: 1.-THE moon rests on the seventh l
day, the fourteenth day, the twenty-f1rst
day and the twerty,eighth day; Again.
from the same, we find this: 'On the sev-
enth day He (God) appointed a holy day.
and TO cease from ali business He com
manded." Plain limitations of this weekly
revolution of time are to be found with tne
earliest dreek poets. Hesiod. Homer and
Lines, as we'll as among the Chaideans.
Egyptians and Romans Hesiod calis ths
seventh day 1.-The splendid light of the sun,
and Homer characterizes 1t as the sacred
day" - a..
Prof. c. A. L. Totten. than whom none IS
more able to make the calculations neces-
sarv. saws: 1T is useless to contend against
these figures. for they square with all the
eclipsea. transits and equinoxes of astronr
cmy The fundamental fact which thus re-
slIlfs is potent that the human race nave
never lost the septenary sequence OF the
week day and that the Sabbath or these
latter times comes down to us from Adam
through the flood. past -Joshua's long day
by the dial of Ahaz and out of the sepui,,
cher of the Savior. without single lapse
IndianaDolis Sept. 10. j. L. BOYD.