The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-15
S u N D a Y
THOUGHTS
Req. WM. CROSS,
Rector of the ST. Lukes
EpicopoI Chnrch.........
Ren. WM. CROSS-
HE KEPT NO SUNDAY
Rector Of the ST. Lukes
EpicopdI Chnrch.....-..

i You may safely write THIS cpl
taph On hundreds of graves that
will be aug this year for strong
men cut down ip their prime; for
ambitious, prosperous, influential
men, cut off the race for life.
The doctors will say, Soften
ing of the BRAIN" paralysis, "
heart disease, " nervous exhaus-
ton. there are dozen medical
names for tie cause of untimely
death, but sifted to the bottom
the real cause is the men killed
themselves by breaking Sunday.
There are suicides by the score
when no apparent cause exists for
the rash act. The man was doing
well. His family relations were
pleasant and affectionate, One
day he puts an end to himself, no
man can tell why, least of all the
| solemn coroner's jury, who return
the owl-wise verdict, Temporary
Insanity The fact is, he died
Of working ION Sundays-business
men, statesman, lawyers, clergyman
and students are getting into the
habit of going out" at moments
warning, dropping dead as they
stand, in a. way that has never
been known before. The proba-
bilities that any prominent man,
in any wax of life, will die in his
bed at ripe old age III the
United States are daily becoming
rarer.
Now and then there is enough
of toughness in the constitutional
fibre, enough of steel and whale
bone derived from hard working
parents, the children of the soil, to
carry a man through this sort Of
life to a reasonable old age. But
these are exceptional cases, and
they are daily growing more ex-
ceptional The children of these
parents, whose nerves are raw TO
the touch, and whose brains are in
a restless buzz all their lives, are
are showing themselves true to the
mentable natural law.
1t was to meet just this sort OF
blunder in human life that the
Lord gave his seventh day OF rest,
because it is absolutely essential
to the we'll being of man that he
should rest the tired hands and
calm the fevered brain,
Our life is more intense than the
world has ever known. The move
ment Of all things is with express
train speed, We are all in the
whirl together. 1t takes every
faculty a man possesses to enable
him to hold his own-striving to
get on, striving to keep square
up to the front with the army OF
competitors, a man is compelled to
use every power to the fullest. IL
makes little difference what his
calling may be- the pressure is
about the same in AN. As result
nervous diseases, diseases which
affect the brain, the physicians tell
us, are becoming most common;
and, working in mad, restless
way, men are making the stupid
blunder Of supposing they need no.
Sunday rest.
We are not placing this on the
highest motive, because the highest
motive is powerless to touch the
transgressor. We only say, the
transgression does not pay.
We assure every man who reads
this, that common sense and we'll
ascertained scientific truth perfectly
agree with religion. and that it
does not pay to work on Sunday;
that on the other hand, it is the
most reckless waste of time, the
maddest extravaganza in which
man can indulge. If any man
doubts his clergyman he may ap-
peal to his physician, and we are
very certain the two will agree
Sunday work is suicide. And BY