The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-06-10
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ON MODERN SABBATH
Takes Broad Ground on Moot
ed Question of Proper Sab
bath Observance.
Progressive Preacher Speaks
Eloquently About Proper
Rest and Pleasure.

CINCINNATI, o., June S.-The diner
ent uses to which the Sabbath may
profitably be put was discussed by
Herbert S. Bigelow in his pulpit at the
Vine street Congregational church.
Mr.. Bigelow said in part:
score of years ago, in little col
lege town in Ohio. l remember it was
mooted question whether or not a
Christian might in good conscience go
walking on Sunday. Sunday was a
and hushed voices.
The alleged ill-fate of the Sunday
fisherman has passed into jest. But it
was no joke once. Once credulity was
easily played upon by solemn like the
Reverend Mr.. Bownd. who declared to
his flock that there was a certain no.
bleman "who for hunting on the holy
day was punished by having a child
with a dogs head"
Yet noblemen, according to parson,
were to be allowed some latitude in
because they represent in some meas
ure the majesty Of God on earth, in
carrying the image as it We're Of the
magnificence and puissance of the
Lord
But better reason might have been
urged by the preached for exempting
an English lord from the rigor of the
fourth commandment. The command
says: Six days, shalt thou labor. Since
an English lord does no work on six
days of the week, there seems to be
III. b.
the seventh day.
The Puritan Sabbath.
The Sabbath Of the Pilgrim Faith
ers was not without it's value. The
hush that comes upon a little town,
the open doors Of the meeting house
on the hill, the notes of the church bell
ringing through the valley, the people
vending their way to the place Of wor-
ship. the teams hitched under the
sung from the heart, and a godly man,
perhaps, whose gray hairs lend au-
thority to his words as he speaks Of
God and mortality, of the trials of
earth and the rewards Of heaven.
The repose Of this Sabbath day, it,
lls.ys !
faith these are worth preserving How
can we keep the poetry of the old Sab
bath without the tyranny; how can we
have repose without repression; how
can we make the day spontaneously
worshipful
Some keep the day holy by spending
1t in the fields and woods. The town
Of Edinburgh used to lock it's gates on
Saturday night and keep them locked
until Monday morning that there might
be no Sabbath desecration by the COM
ing and going of the people, In so do
ing the city fathers cut the people of
from one Of the most restful and re-
ligious ways Of spending this day.
Tom Hoods Advice.
Professor Tyndall quotes the famous
Alexandrian scholar. Philo, as saying:
''As on the Sabbath day it is said
God beheld the works that he had
made, SO you also may youreslf con-
template the works Of nature" We
are children Of the earth. Our sense
Of the infinite is sympolized by the
things Of nature. The dying Revolu-
ZIONIST in Victor Hugo's story wished
to live to- see once more the rising
sun. When Joe JEFFERSON lay dying at
Palm Beach. he whispered his desire
to see the ocean. The Psalmist cried:
II will look into the hills whence COM
eth my strength" Emmanuel Kant
said:: Two things fill the mind with
ever-increasing awe and admiral tion,
the star-lit heavens above and the
moral law Within"
Rainbows and sunsets and apple
blossoms are natures lessons in the
beautiful, and beauty is akin to good
ness. The sight of broad acres is as
good for the mind as ozone for tile
lungs. With Tom Hood, we may turn
from the counsel of those
That bid you baulk
A Sunday walk,
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