Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-10-10
SUNDAY BASE BALL
DEALT WITH BY REV. DIR
j. w. KAPP LAST
EVENING

In His Sermon at the First Enghsl
Lutheran Church-Sunday Desc
i Grafton the Theme-A Strons
Sermon Accompanied With Ex
| cellent and Appropriate Music
/ Same Subject handled by Rev
| Geo. Hill.
There was fair sized audience a
the First English Lutheran church last
levening 10 listen to a sermon by DIR
ii. w. kapp on the subject Why the
Church Opposes Sabbath Dissertation ,
The organ voluntary was followed by
the singing OF hymn beginning:
This Is the day the Lord hath made;
| He calls the hours his own
/ Let heaven rejoice; let earth be glad.
And praise surround the throne
There were appropriate readings
from Nehemiah, Isaiah and st. Luke
all bearing upon the observance OF
Sunday. The choir sang beautiful
| selections. A quartet consisting OF
Alice kehlenbrink, Cora Eggemeyer,
| Oliver Nusbaum and Will Kruger
/
dom From Her Mountain Height, -
etc. Another hymn was sung begin
ming:
Another six days work is done
Another Sabbath is begun;
Return, my soul. enjoy the rest;
Improve the day thy God hath best.
The fourth commandment, Re-
member the Sabbath day and keep it
holy, etc" was employed as text for
| the discourse. Briefly outlined, the
sermon ran as follows:
The church has been charged with
arbitrariness in its opposition to popu
lar sports and amusements, and has
been said to have been unduely strict
on that subject. Many of the poplar
amusements are those in which the
tenn ptation TO the young is strong and
are through avenues that otherwise
bring great pleasure. 1t is said that
the church should be less strenuous in
its opposition to such pleasures. The
commandments of the Bible are to all,
and are for the benefit of the people
as a whole. They are such that their
obedience is to work benefit to
those outside and inside the church,
and are therefore 10 all. What Sab
bath deSecration is, Is not clearly set
forth in the commandment, as no par
ticular things are recounted as desc
erations. The conscience will not do
for a perfect guide on the subject, as
the dictates of conscience depend
largely upon bringing up and sur
roundings. Neither will popular opin-
ion serve as a criterion. As the law Is
more than human, as it is of divine
origin, we will have to look to the
Bible TO interpret it. The day must
be kept holy. 1t is not merely for
physical rest, not merely for rest for
the body, it is not merely mental rest.
1t means the kind of rest that God
took on the seventh day-a relaxation
from the labor of the week, a going
back to that which Is highest in ones
self, that which is ones highest and
truest self, the satisfying of the deepest
want of the soul. 1t has been said that
the Sabbath was made for man and
not man for the Sabbath. This means
merely that the Sabbath was instituted
that man might be be nefited thereby
in all that was highest and best in
himself; that it was the day set apart
for making him better, and was not
intended to be interpreted as 1t is pop
ularly often interpreted TO mean a loose
observance of the day and to excuseSab-
bath desecration. Such an interpreta
ton is mere travesty. Christ did good
on the Sabbath day; We should do
likewise. We should not ask of any
particular thing we are tempted to do,
"Is it wrongP' bit we should ask if
| by doing it we can get freest from the
cares of the week, from the worldly
| things.
Among the local amusemepts now
attracting attention is Sunday base
bali. No one can say who has been a
| part of the base ball crowd, and who
| has heard the noise, etc., that by at
tending that game or participating
therein he has subserved his highest
spiritual or moral interests. Or that he
had honored God by being there. He
sould rot say that he had doue what
God h. d said he should do, or that be
had administered TO the highest things
in his soul; that he had lifted him to
higher and better life. He could not
go to work on Monday feeling that he
had been given higher idea of his
fellow man. He can not say IN Il e
evening Lord, have spent the day
| according to Thy will
| DIR. kapp then read the statute
against base ball. which prohibits such
games when admissions are charged
and where gam bling is indu,ged in
he pronounced the free admission
| with the charges for score cards and
admission to the grand stand mere
Subterfuges for whipping the devl
around stump. The game itself. .said
the minister, has no intrinsic harm. .anc
ne said he epjoyed seeing the boy:
playing il as an athletic sport. de
condemned the brutality, quar-
reling. gambling. etc. tha
are regular accessories of the Sun
! day game. He read statement Il
the effect that the professional gam'
!, had greatly degenerated of late. ant
, that gambling and quarreling, rioting
, | ETC., had become Its accompaniment,
He deplored this and expressed s. hop
) that the game as an athletic spoI
) might lose its disrepute. The mlnIste
i spoke further of Sabbath deseers tho
and said that il was IN the interest c
necessity, patriotism and the weifar
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