Arizona republican., 1903-04-27
SUNDAY REST
Rev. ". H. Tag by Advocates Cessing
 All Unnecessary Work on Sunday.

At the Fifth Avenue Christian church last night the pastor. w. Ii. Bagby, delivered very thoughtful and prac- tical address upon a subject of mCrA than ordinary interest to all Christians as well as to all employers and e1n- ployes. His theme was How to Pre- vent the 5ecularization of the Lord Day and his text a part of the 18th chapter of Nehemiah in which the prophet condemns the Jews for pursu- ing their various business aVocations on the Sabbath.
 Mir. Bagby begun by declaring that the Lords Day or the Christians Sab bath was in great danger Of being secularized. and affirmed that this w2s l1rgely due to immigration from con tincntal Europe. as the ideas and prac- tices of these peoples leavened our SO ciety. Commercialism and worldv mindedness were declared to be two potent factors also in bringing this re- suit about.
 In presenting this subject" said the speaker, TWO questions present them selves. Why? How? First. why seek to prevent ft?'' The speaker affirmed that he would not insist on the ob- servance of Sunday because it is a holy day. but would urge cessation from work On that day for reasons not in any way connected with the church. Fte asserted that there were three gen eral and sufficient reasons why the first day of tine week should be observed a. 6 day of rest-scientific. social and re- ligious
 Human experience has demonstrated that man is so constituted that he must have one day of rest in seven. God has fixed this as law Of his physical nj lure. Sunday is to the week what the night is to the day. The most virile people today are those who have faith fully observed the law of God com man6ing one rest day in seven for thousands of years. The Jews. he de- clared, were the brightest in intellect. on an 2verag ge, of any nation today, and as . people Were the healthies-.
 lie attributed these characteristics in i i large measure to their practice or rest : ing cn one day in seven. thus permit ling both body and mind to recuperate. | He asserted that the English and Americans for hundreds of years had been observers Of Sunday as a day Of rest and worship, but that as this habit was being abandoned through com merciaiisnl. the people of these nations | were desenerating. France abolished he Christian Sabbath or day of Wor- ! ship. and today there people are dis i contented. morose and grumblers. anl are not as a nation up to their former
 standard.
 l Everything n nature has it's seasons of rest only man rushes madly on
 throughout the year without pausins
 1n give his physical and mental natures 1 time 10 recuperate
 l The second reason assigned for the | observance Of a rest day was the in- portance of family associations. F iS 1 nocaesary that the father have a day ! in which to sit down with wife and l children at home. away from business l cares. fer rest and recreation. Said the : spe2 key: The disintegration of the 1 home means the dissolution of the ma l ton If ever this nation falls it will ! be because it suffered the iron hand 1i greed to destroy the home life of it's ! citizens and bind them. like galley
 slaves. tC the cars cf unceasng toll. 1 Pauiotis,h cannot live in the heart oi : him whose hands are doomed to eternal
 toil."
 He ccntended that the nation could
 not. by legislation. make Sunday holy
 day. but it could make the day ob- j served by Christians as day Of wor-
 ship. q day of rest by legal enactmen-,
 when all unnecessary labor should
 cease. He asserted that the law could
 not prescribe the day you should go
 to church any mere than it could fix the
 mode cf baptism.
 The third reason was sacred. While
 tais is the most important reason for . the observance of the Lords Day, it Is