The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
A SENATOR'S WIFE.

cates of what is generally termed the Continental Sunday" They believe in the quiet and orderly use of the day as one of worship and of rest as do the vast majority of Americans who do not adhere to a mistaken conception of it quite out of harmony with the conditions and necessities of the world today, Wor- ship and, rest do not Imply that the day must be entirely given up to church-go- ing and to sitting at home. The great mass of the people, as well as the more fortunate few, must have more than this. and they get it. The Scotsman reminds the Sabbath Alliance that there Is n higher authority than their spokesman for the statement that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath, and is aware of no divine law by which cabs and private carriages allowed. Man in Scotland, 1t seems, as else where. means not the few who can keep or hire their carriages but the many who are glad to get their artificial means of locomotion as cheaply as possible. If 1t 1t is lawful that a domestic servant should sacrifice the whole or part of his Sunday rest for the convenience of one man or one family, is 1t not equally lawful that a few scores of servants of the tramway company should sacrifice their Sunday for the benefit of thouR- ands? They do not make their sacI ifice without compensation. as The Scotsman points out: the running of Sunday cars has meant an increase of their wages.
 Such are the reasons advanced by the chief organ of the best Scottish. opinion and representative of the home of ortho- dox Presbyterianism. They are mt strange by any means to the ears Of Americans Would 1t not be wen for the American sticklers for the archaic observ- ance of the Sabbath that allows no lib- erty to the individual to consider them? Are they not clinging to an idea that is as antiquated and as i'll adapted to the needs of the twentieth century as the creed that the Presbyterian Church has just modified; an idea that has been cast aside by their orthodox brethren of Scot land for more reasonable and more hu. man conception of Sabbath made for many We learn from The Scotsman that the real author of the matter in com plaint should be considered to be not the tramway company nor the town council
 who may be supposed to have been in- auenced by pecuniarv considerations, but Lord Balfour of Burleigh. This enlght- ened elder of the Church of Scotland SC. cured the opening of the museum in Edin- burgh on Sunday. It seems to be laid up against him by the Sabbatarian ali ance; but we can imagine that the more enlightened opinion of Edinburgh is grate- ful for the boon, as those are grateful for similar boon who have seen the quiet and orderly throngs on Sunday af- lernoon, in our own museums Such re- sources are an enrichment of the day, and their use Is most proper to it's obs servance. There Is everything to be said In favor of keeptng Sunday as day Of rest for the many: but in providing the reasonable and necessary and beneticent means for the enjoyment of that rest it is inevitable that some should have to minister to it. It ss. as The Scotsman points out a question not of the divine order but of the rule of three. The path of enlightenment and individual freedom is blocked by the opponents of these things. Here, as in Scotland. those who pose as champions of the Sabbath are the who hiarredff if and ranAer only the more difficult it's maintenance as daM reallv deMntad tn uknrshtr and rf.st