The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-11-18
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.


Tho Sabbath vas mals ioi man shd
not man fot tbe sabbath That woe
the early Biblical view ana q relieved
| the Fnundefs vt ih" iIih from ihH
necessity since Imposed urnu SOME but
/ not ~ ~ their followers. Co shut them
selves in clustered gloom on lht iirst
day ~ each week ana spend the Tim" ~
meditation aud ppyar The saviour
wus not % sunday rcciuHe. Y we may
Judge from His answer to the strict
coustructionista 81 iiis time and to-day
only portion II the Christian world
approves ~ q phaflsee sabbath. IO-
man catholicism a. responsible. ia large
degree, for what is called the European
sunday. or rather. 1t divides such roe
sponsiblity with Greek Catholicism.
The Episcopal body. In Great Brituu
and America. II broadly liberal in its
Views Of sunday obHervaure aud the
original uarrowness Of the Evangeli-
cal churches ls giving way In the spirit
OF the text with which this paragraph
opens.
How narrow this earlier condition
was Is difficult to conceive in the light
Of the Twentieth Century. \ man
might not kiss his wife or fondle his
children on the first day OF the week
under penalty OF the law. He could
read no secular book nor hold a world
ly conversation. His duty to attend
the stated services was enforced by
statute. on Sunday he could cook no
food, split no wood for his fire even If
he needed II to subdue the cold; and
g., Ia tt.ft IL fn, IA mr. a 9Th
tiers to appear at church in comedy
rament. The condition which pro-
duced such a state of things was the
rule Of a theocracy; but as civil insti-
tutions became separate from the
church in spirit as we'll as in law, the
natural rights of man were recognized
and Sunday observance was no longer
pressed upon the citizen. His right to
do as he pleased providing he did not
disturb the peace or the quiet of his
neighbor was tacitly admitted; and al
though Legislatures did not care to
wipe the old Sabbath statutes from the
books, they ceased to enforce them,
letting the outworn laws die in peace.
Many a law expires in that way. There
is yet embraced in the laws of the
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