The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-08-12
OBSERVANCE OF TIE SABBATH

MI. Noah ". Cooper, in a recent
interview IN the Nashville Banner
said:
II am glad that the ordinance TO
permit groceIs TO keep open Sunday
morning till clock has gone to us
death. Mr.. McCOnnico's opinion was
nothing but statement Of one OF the
Oldest, plainest and most wholesome
laws of our state. No man shall carry
ON his usual business on Sunday
That's our state law, and has been so
for over 100 years. II has been the
common law of Anglo-Saxon people
from the earlist Christian era. 1t is
backed mp by the experience OF many
centuries. by the observation of philos-
ophe1s, by the consensus of all sober
and reason able people. 1t is. indeed
the voice of GOd-put into words py
our own law makers upon our statute
books. And hope the time will never
come when this law will he so amended
as TO countenance a dissertation OF any
single hour of the Sabbath day. There
is lust as much reason for keeping
open store Sunday evening as Sunday
morning. There is no reasonable OF
righteous reason for keeping open store
anv hour on Sunday. We can i've
longer. be better and die happier by
not buying or selling on Sunday
when you consider what is really
worth having, no man has ever gained
anything by buying OF selling on Sum
day. The little suffering or distress
that might be temporarily caused by
a return to rigid observance OF the
Sabbath, as the moral and civil law
requires, as compared with its mani
fold benefits, would be like stumping
your toe before discovering gold
mine, or like scratching blood from
your finger in picking golden oranges
! from a tree. GroceIs and all other
merchants would have the better re-
! spect of their neighbors and the smil-
ing approval OF God to quietly give
way OH Sunday whatever necessities
the very distressed may require. They
: would gain mole in all that's worth
gaining.
Violation does Not Pay.
II tell you the money that is made
by violating the Sabbath is not worth
having lit is not mark of charity, MOI
} of honor, nor of sense; it is mark OF
; shame and corruption; it may for a
time bedeck the body, but it rots the
SOUL 1t helps to shut the gates OF
happiness on mankind.
1--WE have city ordinances allowing
, bakers and retail dealers in cigars and
; tobacco, fruit, fish, meats, bread, ice
cream, newspapers, milk, ETC., to sell
!. on Sunday but our able City Attor'
, new. Mr.. McConnico, as well as every
. other good lawyer knows we'll that
these city ordinances are contrary &c
the law of our state, and absolutely
void. They are a neIe form OF law
: gotten up and passed in open defiance
! of our state law and of God s law fol
the sole purpose of giving some shadow
: of excuse to those who would make
little money, even if they did cor
rupt our youth and debauch public
morality. oh, they say. we mus
do it to accommodate the public.
This is the veriest rubbish of reason
There is no justice, no charity ant
:. no good in accommodating anyone In
violation of God S law and in violation
of statute in conformity with thu
law.
1T is gold, pelf, self, greed-that
the main reason for all this horrible
:, violation of the Sabbath.
t Profit in Sunday Work.