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right to demand that their customs
shall be protected.
1T does not fall within my purpose to
elaborate these four propositions For
their proof and Illustration l refer to the
literature of the subject, where they Will
be found to be conclusively established.
1 have named them with a view to In
which the friends of Sunday may hold
in common. My present contention is
that we must be willing to adopt a basis
of
ACTION BROAD ENOUGH
to win the support of all who desire to
make our, Sunday day of rest from on
Rev w. 8. Rainsford, d. D.. of st.
Georges church, New York, was the first
of the appointed speakers to discuss the
subject He said in part:
"One pre-eminent danger appalls us to-
day. 1t is the growing disregard of law.
Wherever you go we find this. whether
it Is the lady who tips the custom house
official; the child who watches until the
policeman is not watching and then runs
past with a can of beer, or corporation
which pays $3.50, 600 to attorney to get
him to get around the antitrust law.
Every man whose faith rests In Almighty
God is anxious about the growing disre-
gard for law. Underlying the Importance
of the observations of the Lords day is
the disregard Of law.
THE method of enforcement Is too
often the mistaken one, especially with
the Episcopal church. The true attitude
is like the tabernacle of old People of
our time are not careless of our author
ity. Tabernacles are always being taken
down. They are taken down In every
age Constantly, with the best intentions
but mistaken methods, many OF our
bishops, seeing clearly certain evils to be
explored, are mistaken in the method of
meeting them. In the nineteenth century
the mere assertion of an outward author
ity is not going to help us a bit. Christ
turned to the masses of men when on
earth. The world of men Is the same Is
in early days Man wants to be guided,
and on this broad basis there Is every
reason to believe we shall guide them.
There should be larger use of the Lord
day. A wise, liberal policy followed by
the clergy will have the right effect"
AGAINST SUNDAY LEGISLATION.
Rev. Beverly E. Warner, D. D., of New
Orleans, was the last of the appointed
speakers, and said in part:
THE so-called Sunday laws against
labor, except works of necessity and
mercy, seem to me justifiable, first to the
extent of preventing some men from in
terfering with the rights of others TO
day of peace and rest and secondly, so
far as they prevent the powerful EN-
ployer class from encroaching upon one
seventh of the time of their employees.
But Sunday laws against amusements are
unnatural.
There are three classes in our modern
civilization to whom Sunday observance
are of the profoundest Importance. First
the workingman, whether in the m II, the
shop, the field or the factory. We may
eXhort and teach and instruct but we may
not command
The second class to whom, as 1t seems
to me, Sunday legislation is of the last
Importance, is that large and eminently
respectable part of the community VINO
worship God, as they say, in the woods
and fields. on the bicycle in the golf
iinks-who, in a word, give the whole
day up to amusements. They have fair
and spacious standing ground. There are
many good men who spend their Sundays
though there were no such thing as
church in existence. In many individual
cases 1t Is very difficult not to admit
their argument. But to them we may
say, suppose there were no churches in
existence. You would be obliged at the
same time to eliminate Christian civiliza-
ton. History is our warrant for claim
ing that religion it's practice, its ideals
and through its institutions, has given
us the civilization we enjoy. If 1t is
valuable to men, men are bound to main
tain 1t in one way or another: The
Turk, the infidel, agnostic, hereto has
privilege
the Christian civilization. 1t behooves
him, as one who receives its benefits to
acknowledge responsibilities. One OF
these is the maintenance Of an institution,
and a day, which have done so much for
the best life of the world, and is the only
organized good against the mass of or
ganiZed evil.
Il do not mean to say that man should
not take any recreation he pleases on
Sunday which is legitimate on any other
day of the week Indeed, 1 think that
for people who toll, Sunday ought to be
a recreation day, but in a way that will
build up manhood and womanhood, ana
ennoble, not debauch community
1.-The third class interested in Sunday
observance is composed of those who
believe and call themselves Christians,
That there is laXity from Puritan meth
DDS of Sunday keeping is acknowledged.
and by some of u.s. with great JOY. The
painful rightly of mechanical observ-
ance of twenty-four hours is mercifully
relaxing. But for all this-if- you will
closely scan the history of the American
people you Will find that from those
brought up in religious God-fearing
way, with Sunday observance as rally
ing point, have gone forth a manhood
and womanhood which has been the
backbone of our civilization.
TRUE OBSERVANCE.
Rev Frederick Palmer, OF Andover,
Mass, questioned if there was not a
way of observing Sunday in a religious
way without its being ecclesiastical Man
was not trained for church. A mill oper-
ative who worked six days in the week
could not get much by going to church
Sunday. The men should be more intellt-
gent, but they were not. Man could rise
and grow by non-ecclesiastical observ-
ance of Sunday. The true observance of
the day should be special, lofty and joy
full. Coney island and such resorts were
doing a good work among the laboring
1nen. The Sunday excursions to such
resorts were better than the beer sa-
looms or the dull, sodden loafng and the
reading of the columns CT the thirty-six
PACED newspapers.
The morning session closed with singing
and the benediction by Bishop Whipple.
A meeting Of the executive committee
vas called for 1 o'clock to elect officers
of the congress and transact other bust
ness, including the selection of a place
Of meeting for the twentieth annual ses-
sion in 1900. The attendance of members
was so light that an adjournment of the
committee was taken to this morning
Immediately after the morning session.
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