The Kalispell bee., 1902-04-16

Praise God From Whom All Bless |
ings Flow"-with the name of God |
eliminated? To whom are we in
debted for, all the blessings of life, to
God or man? Shall we say day of
God" commemorative of the Creator
and the stupendous creation of the
universe, stand aside! Come, thou
hoary old servant of the Almighty, |
cease thy functions and lend us thine
aid in the worship of man and his
works. We are tired of God, and we
suspend thee from thy priestly duty
of ministering at the altar fires of
creation and creations God. Cease
thy clatter about God and what He
wants, we propose to seek and OBJ
tain what we want on this day, and
we care nothing about Gods prohi-
bitions of labor and pleasure. Go
to, thou baldheaded and grizzled old
time law of the Almighty! Though
thou vert present at the opening and
unveiling of creation though thou
hast called a halt on the human race
and hast summoned man to the wor-
ship of the creator of the universe
every seventh day for sixty centur-
les; though the commission of the
Lord God of heaven and earth is
upon thee and thou art forever or
dained a priest to minister in holy
things, we, the free and sovereign
people of the United States of Amer
lea, command thee to lay aside thy
ctn
prohibition of labor, pleasures and
secularities, bend thy proud neck to
the yoke of our service in secular
things, become our newer of wood
and drawer of water, PROSTATE thy
self and let us walk over thee into
our temples of Mammon, Bacchus and
| Aspasia; or HE thee back to Mount
; Sinai and tell the God of the Deca-
| logue that, by virtue of our authority,
the Fourth Commandment is re-
, pealed!
But the commandment replies:
you cannot repeal my commission
} unless you are greater than God. |
hold it by divine authority. 1t dates
from the birth of time. Man needed
me even then, in an unfallen state,
r and now that sin tempts him to for
get his Maker, he needs me all the
: more. l represent the duty and the
right of man not only to worship but
: to rest from toll one day in the seven.
i | am a law of labor and la wof rest.
: Man was created to work and rest
4 Idleness is the prolific mother of vice
D crime and misery. The six-day idler
f breaks me as truly as the seventh
6 day worker. Six days shalt thou la
n Dor is as binding on the millionaire
y as it is upon the pauper. But the
d seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord
thy God 1t belongs to Him. He re-
:, served it from the beginning of crea
|, tion for purposes of rest and wor-
S ship.
, 81 am the time law, and cannot be
n repealed any more than you can re
g peal my neighbors, from the Fifth tc
T the Tenth commandments. Can you
repeal Gods statutes in ragard tC
# fife, purity family property, truth
l. and unlawful desire? | am the time
7. law of the Almighty, just as my
e brother, the Sixth command, is the
e life law; the Seventh, the purity law;
e the Eighth, the property law, the
e Ninth, the truth law; the Tenth, the
e desire or thought law. We, the stat
e utes of the Decalogue, stand or fal
e together. We are of divine, not Jew
l. ish, origin and are the common in
It heritance of the human race. We
d were made for man, for universal
D. man. We were not first established
If at Sinai, and of restricted applica
= ton to the Jews. Our origin was
J. earlier We were born with creation
and incorporated in it's framework
$ The Jews found me at Sinai; or
!" rather, | came to them, and the!
e grated certain religious observance!
II upon me at that time. Those observ
4. ances passed away, but | remain. The
l. world was made for man, but it was
i not finished for him until l was
i made. Man was created with a ply
d sical necessity for rest. l was ere
e ated to meet that necessity Man wa
IF created with a spiritual necessity 70
worship, and | was created to NEE
n that necessity If these necessitie
IS are peculiar to the Jews only, thel
r l am only a Jewish institution; bu
J. if they are common to all men, thel
n am a collosal institution rooted il
IS human nature, wide as humanity an
A perpetual as time.
a. I'VE, the statutes of the Decalogue
h. have the chara teriSticS of nernet1lit'
t. and universally. We belong to man
j. moral and physical well being. Grin'
ID the tables of stone to powder, burr
d your Bibles to ashes, and you hav
al not touched us; you must go deeper
~ grind man himself to powder, yea
le annihilate him soul and body befor
d, you can release him from the bindin
y nature of our authority. Before yo
le repeal either of us you must accom-