Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-04
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May 9TH, inclusive, as the World S
Week of Prayer for the Lords Day.
Just before the summer flood of Sab
bath breaking we are called every year
to protect the inperillcd Lord S Day
| by week of PRAYER and prevention
Let us recall gratefully as ono of the
surviving gifts of the lost Paradise the
Sabbath which WAS from the very be-
ginning divinely "made for man, and
is therefore not TO be considered as
Hebrew but human and humane Let
us ponder the profound significance of
the fact that i'll the God given Ten
Commandments. the Keystone, largest
of all, is the Sabbath commandment
tie breaking of which leads to the
keeping of the Others.
\ We should remember that Jesus
taught us to observe the weekly Sab
bath, and by an act that was in effect
a legislative act transferred 10y the Holy
Spirit, its rest and special worship to
the Lords Day, SO called by His
apostle of love in the New Testament
and SO called every week since in UNI
4 broken succession
Let us pray that this succession OF
divine and human blessing may not bt
broken by the greed for gain and tho
greed for pleasure that together assai
it with unprecedented aninus at thi
time.
/ Let this week of prayer to God be
first of all a week OF very much i'm.
Fortunate prayer in public, around the
family altar and III the closet, but also
let ii be week of petitioning national
and state and local officers for better
enforcement of existing laws. Let us
particularly appeal to Congress for a
law against Sunday banking in the
money order and registry divisions OF
the post office. but recently permitted
Let specific efforts be made in each
town to abolish or diminish work III
post offices, which London and Toronto
lprove unnecessary Let timely liter
allure be distributed in every town anG
city by a modern seventy going two
and two from house to house Where
possible let Sunday trains be stopped
but in any case let Christians he pur
suaded to stop using them. SO, also
with Sunday papers, in which every
form of Sunday work is combined =
that of professional men, the editors
of mechanics, the printers; of merch,
ants, the newsdealcrs; of hucksters, tho
newsboys; also the work of carriers anC
amusement vendors; making it incon
sistcnt for one who makes OF sells oil
buys or advertiscs in a Sunday paper
To condemn any form of Sunday work
Let us not rely alone on law but max,
large use of the arrest OF thought" to
prevent that large part of Sabbath
breaking which is due to want o
Thought" rather than want of heart.
Rev. Wilbur +. Crafts, PHI d., Super
intcndcnt of the National Reform Blu
reau
Rev. Alexander Jackson PHI ID.
Secretary The Cleveland Sunday Schoo
Union
! 7. T. Muchlcr, M d., Secretary o
Philadelphia Sabbath Association.
1 NJ d. knccland d. d.. Secretary o
the New England Sabbath Protective
League.
/ Rev. j. b. Dawson, Secretary Wis
consin Sunday Rest Day Association.
VIM S lIubbcll d. d., sccrctar,
New York Sabbath Committee
Frederick Stanley, d. D., Secretary
{, American Sabbath Union.
Mrs. V. f. Cox, Supt. Sabbath OBJ
servancc Department, National w. {
r. U.
Edward Thomson, d. d. l.. l.. ID.
Manager, The Sunday League o
America
Mrs. Mary L. James, Honorary Pres
idcnt of the Womun's National Sal
bath Alliance.
Miss Stella Lunn goes to
York, Neb., on Tuesday morn
! ing on a short business visit.
Miss Jessie and Lula Fenton
daughters of Miss Robt. Fentor
of Chicago, arrived in the Val.
ley this morning expecting to
spend the summer with Mr.
and Mrs. H. H. Fisher.
Mrs. G. B. Russell, of Audu
bon, Iowa, who has been spend
ing the past year in California
has been in the Valley for the
past week the guest of Mrs. C.
C. Lahman and Mrs. Emma II.
Russell left for her home in Au-
dubon this morning.
During 1903 there were eight
hundred and sixty-four million
tons of coal dug in the word.
Miss Ruby Dessert, of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, spent Sunday in the
Valley the guest of her mother
Fred Warren, who has been
in the Valley for the past week
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. f. H
Harris left for CIarinda this af-
ternoon.
Matt Davis was in the Valley