The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-06-12

day Sabbath with the Jew, or Sun
day with the heather, or Lord's
day with the Christian, but if you
are to be Scripturally accurate and
historically honest, you will also
name it ''the first day of the week."
What now, does the Fourth Com
mandment requiret
1t requires work. The sane
commandment that enoines no
work also says "Six days shalt
thou labor This is apt 10 be
overlooked, yet work on six days is
as certainly commanded as is alb
stlnence from 1t on one day. From
the day the edct went worth in
Eden, "by the sweat OF thy brow
shalt thou eat bread until this day
of struggle for a loaf, the require.
ment OF work has never been re.
Taxed or removed. The curse upon
the ground that it should bring
forth thorns and briers, has been
no curse on man. The greatest
help to health, the memorable law
OF success, the blessed preventive
agrinst crime, the shield for temp
tation, the key to happiness, the
secret OF contentment, the palh to
wealth, the cures mendicacy. the
substitute for misdirected benevo.
lence, the demand of God and the
boon OF man-ls work.
Lazincss is twin sister to fifth,
and sin, and crime, and work is
their antidote. He who can find
nothing 10 do will soon be doing
worse than nothing. His eond-
ton IS pltlable and soon it will be
deplorable. Work is the normal
condition of man, and Incidence is
abnormality. The thr ee most for.
midable enemies to our national
safety. to the perpetuity of our do
mestic happiness and the success
of Christianity in the world. are ig-
norance. intemperance, Incidence.
OF these three the last is not the
least to be feared and fought 1t is
son OF the first, and twin
brother OF the second. The curse
of any man is to have nothing TO
do-by preference; the cure OF the
curse is this: six days shalt thou
la Dor.
The first sentence of the fourth
commandment is at once the cure
Tor barbarism and pauperlsm Bar
barity fees before industry, and
pauperism hides behind the door
from honest labor. TO insist that
tramp shall saw a half a cord of
wood for his bre akfast does the
tramp more good than It does the
woodplle, while to give aims to a
healthy beggar who will not work,
does in jurv 10 both giver and men,
dicant. Solitary confinement with
out hard labor would empty our
! prisons, and fill our asylu ms, for
hard labor is the rose that grow S
on the thorn bush OF isolated III
generation.
How true also is this idea Of the
necessity OF work, when carried
over into the realm Of the spiritual.
Disconnected grum blers in a church
ought TO be made to do the things
, they grumOle about. Faultlinders
will become fault losers II they find
work.
The commandment also requires
rest-rest for man, Tor his family,
tor his son, for his daughter, Tor
his ma2servaut, for his maidscr.
< - Nh I !,
was made tor man, not man Tor the
Sabbath. 1t was not made for the
Jews, nor for the church, nor for
the Seventh Day Baptists, nor Tor
the Seventh Day Adventist, nor for
bad people, nor Tor good people
but for union. And man needs il
needs it Tor rest, physical rest,
mental rest, soul rest And what
man needs God has provided aud
en- Joined.
The fourth commandment re
qulrcs worship. Not that God re
quires but one seventh OF our time.
Not that we are masters OF six
seventies of the week, but God has
provided one day IN the seven lor
formal worship. On this day we
ought to array ourselves in the best
raiment we have -provided we
have a care to dress for God and
not for man. There is sometimes
religion IN clean linen. and the
spirit Of worship in Sunday suit
with oy we hail the sacred day
Which God has called his own,
With oy the summons we obey
10 worship at his throne.
This day is for our moral, spirit
ual development. Anything there
lore that can be safely put dowr
under this head is permissible ant
commendable. Shall read sun
day paper? Shall 20 on Sun
day excursion to Woodland Bcacl
or Irandywinc Springs or Shell,
pot Shall | engage in Sunday
spin: Yes, yes, yes if any or al
OF these will develop YOU moral,
and spiritually.
The right Observance Of this ga
cred day 3 alter all in the hand.
OF Christian people, Sunday pa
pcrs could not be printed if every
protesting Christian who reads ont
would withhold his subscription
sunday trans could not run il
church members would dcsIst from
Sunday travel. Sunday excursions
would be impossible il all Chris
lans would come TO sunday SChOo!