Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-09-11

running mt full blast. Is being done at
least with driving force. The barber
shops aud grocery stores and drug stores
and dry goods stores ana liquor stores
and. billiard halls and theaters and
often foundries and factories are open
and know no difference between sun
day and Monday or Saturday. 1.-THE
quo stion How shall we keep SundayT
Is fast acquiring n secondary signifi-
cnnce." once powerfully spoke bishop
Huntington. "Once the fear was that
the Sunday might be broken Now the
anxiety is lest II be wholly lost: In
word, We are threatened with the
forfeiture of an available franchise. the
annulment OF an ancient charter, and
II IL high time that we bestir our
selves Yes. yes, Bishop Huntington
well spoke the truth. The Sabbath day
Is to be great factor in the future in
Teaching the laboring classes how to
spend their evenings. because now the
Sabbath day az day OF rest has been
stolen away. II must be recaptured.
IT Is high time that the labor unions OF
this land and the church OF Jesus Christ
Join hands to win back that Sabbatic
treasure which Lord Beaconsfield--
who. like King Solomon, was Jew
once declared "was the greatest bless
ing ever given by God to man"
"A RestfuI sunday.
The labor unions may logically base
their claims upon physical grounds.
"Rest. rest, Give us more restw cry
the barber unions and the grocery clerk
unions and the drug store clerk unions
and all other unions. sour men must
have physical restAperiodicaf rest for
the eye. the hand. the brain, the heart;
rest and complete rest, on physical
grounds" And, thank God, a begin
ming has already been made, for the
labor unions are everywhere presenting
their just claims for restful Sabbath.
On the other hand. the church OF
Jesus Christ must go into this battle
for restfui Sabbath emphasizing the
spiritual as well as physical claims.
The church OF Jesus Christ must have
at least one whole day per week to tell
the people about God; one whole day
per week to teach men how they should
be good husbands and good sons and
good fathers; one day per week to
teach a man his duty to his fellow men
and to his state; one day out of every
seven to teach a man how his life may
be spiritual and his death glorious.
"Restl Restp A Sabbath for sacred
rest and worship should be the cry Of
the church. May this Christian pulpit
on this Labor Sunday help to be the
means of leading the church and the
labor unions TO clasp hands In the holy
conspiracy or capturing the Sabbath
for God, recapturing it for physical
and mental and spiritual rest and in
yigoration.
A consecrated and gospelized ballot
box Is also to be great factor I'm teach
ing the iaboring classes how TO spend
their evenings. This means that by
the election OF the proper health on
cials and district attorneys and munic-
ipai representatives the better classes
shall be able TO go into the city slums
and clean out the vile formations and
accumulations of filth. Jacob A. Riis
in his great book, How the Other Half
Lives declared that i'm some of New
fork's back alleys, achoke with refuse
piles, the light of the sun, as in Devils
canyon. I'm Arizona, can never shine.
lie declared that the wills of one tene-
ment In Blind Mans alley" were SO
covered over with filth that though II
caught fire six times In winter it could
not burn The filthy incrustations nc
cumulated upon the walls OF that tene.
ment did literally smother the flames.
IL means that these elected officers
shall see that each family must have
rooms for itself. No moral lessons can
ever be taught where there are four or
I'VE married couples, with their chill
dren, occupying the same apartment
A Dublin missionary said that once he
found FIVE different families all living
WITHIN the same four walls of one
room-one husband and wife for zach
corner and one family for the center OF
the room-and zone OF those families
was taking In boarders." II means
that no criminals as q class shall be
allowed TO collect In one region. Those
haunts IL necessary shall be RACED tn
the ground and turned into parks as
New York city is now construct,no
small parks at street corners which
were once famous for their infamies.
The Uncrowned Kfn~.
but some one again interrupts me.
In these charges against the city ten.
ements, are you not slandering our Ia.
boring ciassesr You surely do not com
pare the American army OF labor with
those Wild, desperate crowds OF From
xieo men who, emerging from the cell
ars ana foul haunts OF Paris, started
on their famous Journey to Versailles
wnieh ended I'm the death OF FONTS
ANi. and Marie Antoinette, the
naughty daughter OF the Austrian war
queen. Marin rheresai Do you charge
the iaboring classes with being the
physical and spiritual menace of the
woridr' Oh. no. my brothsr. am In
no way siaudsring the laborine classes
believe that some OF the most clearly
and moral and .rsnned homes AZ ths
world are found among the laborcrs q .
wei as among the capitalists. But th,.
10 what do assert: The laborine man
~ tne uncrowned king OF the American
ballot box. What he votes Is law. II
rests upon his shoulders, to a great ex-
TENT how our cities and counties are
TO be ruled. 1t rests with him whether
the sewers shall be clean, whether the
tenements shall be made sanitary and
not overcrowded. whether the million
immigrants who landed in the country
last year. some OF whom come as the
most degraded and ignorant of Euro-
pean Inhabitants. shall be made to oh
serve decencies, and whether sin itself
shall skulk and hide In the darkness
HOW the laboring man spends his even
ings Is decided to great extent by the
whether the laboring man
snail license sin and let Ieering eyed
stalk through our cities ana
towns. like the Indian jugeernaut
which crushed its victims at every turn
OF the fatal wheels.
Rely ON Divine Strength.
But, We laboring men, how are we to
win In these three great movements
which we have been developing? How
are we to get the Holy Spirit inspired
Institutional church. and the Christian