The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-06-22
THE SUNDAY PAPER
AND SUNDAY REST.


the 18th fnstz Let me courteoEsly szy
to that gentleman and to the reading
public touching upon his paragraphs as
he has numbered them.
l. Demand or no demand. real or in
aSinarT. for Sunday paper. has moth
ing TO do with the right or wrong OF il
. Just what rest il is, OF which the
Sunday paper tends TO rob men ami
which God Through his ehnrch) has
provided for them is not made clear.
To rob Is 10 take away By force No
reader OF a Sunday paper viii admit
that he Is forced 10 read Il, or that by
reading l. he is forcibly deprived OF his
rest None OF the employees on Sun
/ day paper are forced to work on Sun
! day 70 produce Sunday paper. nor 20
work on Saturday night 10 prepare
I Sundays paper il it is matter of con-
science with him. Let him seek en-
I ployment where his conscience will not
I be violated
The rest which God has provided"
was not given through his church.
( but was established at creation (Gen-,
2:2.3l before a church ever existed.
I Dld God rest because he was weary
I from the work OF creation? Plainly not.
| Then what kind of rest was his? He
/ that hath entered into his rest hath
/ ceased from his own works, as God did
! from his. Heb, 4:10. Come unto me
/ all We that labor and are heavy laden.
/ and | will give you rest (Matt-, 7:2Sl
! every day and every hour of the day
/ This is Sabbath rest Is it reasonable
/ or permissible to suppose that the op-
orators of a Sunday paper. the paper it
( self or any man or body OF men, can
rob men of the rest which God has
! provided
3. If San Francisco had law, as
Honolulu has, compelling men TO desist
| from labor on Sunday, the number Of
idle cynics and gossipers in San Fran
cisco on Sundays" would be greatly in
| creased. But reading a Sunday paper
| on Sunday is certainly better than alb
| solute idleness, for 'sthe devil is always
| busy especially when he finds others
4 idle. For the victims of enforced Sum
! the papers" on Sunday is far better for
| the papers ION Sunday is far better for
| them than to frequent resorts of evil,
where, ten TO one, they will go rather
than to attend church" if compelled
| to be idle.
4. No Partisan, or Honolulan either.
| has ever been compelled to make Sun
! day "a day of toll" Parisians are given
their choice in the matter-just as God
deals with US, for he says: Choose We
this lay whom We viii serve" Homo
lulans are not permitted, at least by
human law. to do even 80 much as that.
5. Gods law is clear-'Remember
| the Sabbath day TO keep it holy F" six
/ days shalt thou labor and do all thy
work; but lie seventh day is the Sab
bath of the Lord thy God; in it thou
! shalt not do any work. For
| in six days the Lord made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that in them is,
| and rested the seventh day" This law
| is sufficient
6. If the experience of the Forty
! Miners" as cited, is historical fact,
and if the physical rest they took on
| Sunday was what enabled them TO
make more rapid progress westward,
! they might have taken their rest on
| any other day as well; for the fourth
| commandment enjoins no rest upon the
| Sabbath, except the kind that God him.
| self took, viz, ito cease from action or
motion (See Webster's first definition
| for the verb rest, and his citation of
Gen, 2:2 in illustration.) in order to
! remember the Sabbath day to keep it
holy" God ceased from the work of
creation that he might review and en-.
JOY the work of his hands. The Sab
bath is given to man for precisely the
same purpose, that he may cease from
his own works, as God did from his
and refresh himself by contemplating
the works of God and adoring their
maker. Therefore. for a man to refrain
from labor on the Sabbath and fail TO
keep it holy is no less a desecration Of
the Sabbath than TO do the overt act Of
common toll. Cessation from labor on
the Sabbath is only an essential condi-
ton TO, not the essence or end of Sab
bath observance.
Z. AS matter of fact, everybody
knows that the work on a Sunday pa
per is done on Saturday and Saturday
night. There is absolutely no plea for
the employees against a Sunday paper
God has never said that the fact of
papers appearing on Sunday. or any
| other seculariZation of that day. is dis
honoring to him. God himself ''secu-
larized it, by creating the very light by
which we are reading this discussion
upon the Sunday paper; nor has lie
ever unsecularized it.
s. How can il be regarded triumph
/ OF the faith to prevent, either by pop
ular outcry or by law, the proprietors
of newspaper from publishing Sun
day edition, If they desire to; or To pre-
vent the people from reading Sunday
paper. if they wish TO? Man looketh
on the outward appearance, but the
Lord looketh on the heart" the seat Of
our desires and wishes. To merely re-
frain from secular labor is not Sabbath
observance: but without faith il Is i'm
possible to do more than this: nor can
il be triumph OF the faith to do
only this sThe church can conquer in
Honolulu only as it bears this in mind
ana act. even if the city is simply in
tested with missionaries"
8. The church never taught that Sun
day was holy day prior to the time of
Constantine the Great. who was the
first church official TO enjoin a religious
observance OF the day. The apostles
never changed the Sabbath, from the
fact that only the lawmaker can
change q law They might have made
a strong outcry' TO have il done, but
IL they had presumed to change IL
themselves, they would have assumed
the prerogative Of God and the charae-
ter assigned TO the man of sin in
Thess-. 2-2.4. who opposeth and ex-
alteth himself above all thss is called
God so that as God he stitch in
the temple of God. showing himself
that he is God" Had God himself
changed so important an institution he
would have let the fact be known be-