Mexico Missouri message., 1905-08-10
"cAUrHoRN HILL -"
A Mexico Man Discusses Base Ball
and Sabbath Dissertation.

all along feared that it did with the
professed Christian people Of Mex
leo and other places. When pro
fessed Christian man comes out
boldly in public print (who is 'E.
l.. To- and advocates baseball on
Sunday and proclaims the fact that
be takes his wife and children reg.
ularly TO that Sunday game, it is
high time for Christian men and
women 10 wake up TO the fact that
the American Sabbath is in peril.
As | have Travelled abroad and
witnessed the dissertation Of the
Sabbath day, and contrasted those
foreign countries with our own
land aud that of England, nothing
has so impressed me with the SUI
pcriority Of these English speaking
natives as that of the Anglo Saxon
Sabbath ms observed by English
men aud North Americans. Moth
ing enters so largely into the
formation of individual Il 4
national characther of a people as
religion Of that people; and the
purer and better the religion the
better the life and character of
the people aud uation. There can
he no doubt that the qualities that
have set us, as ADglo.Saxons in
the forefront of the nations aud
kept MS there, are largely attribut-
able to the fact that we, above all
nations, have reverenced Gods
holy word, and honored His holy
day. As emerged from those old
countries in Southern Europe and
Old Mexico, where you could
scarcely distinguish Sunday from
any other day, except 10y the ex-
cess of worldly amusements, and
came back into free protestant
American, felt as if were com.
ing out from under a dark cloud,
and oppressive atmosphere, into
the beautiful sunlight, and invig-
Grating air Of life and freedom
once more.
Take away from Us our Anglo
Saxon Sabbath, so sacrcdly rever-
enccd and observed by our fathers,
and which has made our nation
what it is, aud soon we shall lose
our high place and cease to he the
leader of the nations of the earth.
Up TO this time, the men who
have made American history and
our nation the cynosure of the
world, are the men who have
come from Christian homes where
Gods word was read, and His
holy day observed.
Sad will be the day in this coun-
try when men in high places, the
leaders in our land, shall cease to
reverence and honor Gods dav;
that will be the doom of our gov
eminent. We are forced to be.
lieve that the tendency of the
times is in this direction and it be-
hooYes every Christian philanthro-
pist to raise the cry of alarm, aud
do all in his power to resist this
flood of foreign influence aud pre-
serve our Christian Sabbath, which
is the bulwark of our civil insti-
tut'ons.
is not now as much a question
Of what shall we do ON Sunday as
il i, how shall we preserve the in.
sll,utiOn itself2 | would not die
tate TO the consciences of other
men. My appeal is to the word of
God. When He speaks we should
be silent and cease to argue and
bubble. righteousness exalteth
a nation and sin is reproach to
any people"
This Sunday baseball game is a
violation of the Sabbath, cor.
ruptiOn of the morals of our peo.
pie, and ought to be abated. The
man who patronizes and defends
it is not, and cannot be, a sue
cessful worker in the Sunday
school or a valuable member of
any church Gods commands
are 10 the rich and p or, and 10
one of them ran be viohtcd with
impuuiiy ln either T"n many
sins are being committed aud ron
dOned nowadays on The plea ct
manly Out-d"uis athletics, aud "a