The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-13

before the Legislature are intended Io
make wider open opportunities. both
for labor and amusements Also we
understand that games on Sunday can
be put down only, as they are proved
TO become what is known in the law
as common nuisance" which, we are
correctly Informed, becomes, under
legal restrictions and decisions, some
| what difficult to establish Also we
are told that admission fees for Sun
day games have been prohibited. and
therefore there will be little inducement
to play on Sunday. Don't you believe
| it. lie, the conclusion. For expert
ence elsewhere has developed ways
! and means of evading the gate fees
question, or provision. which, if our
informant is correct, have been brought
: before the courts and technically
have come off victorious, so that any
such little matter as prohibited ad-
mission fees proves no hindrance to
the Sunday games. Of course it is not
| our purpose to advertise how this can
! be done.
But we are here tonight for the ex-
press purpose of registering our con-
+! victions on the general Sunday ques-
ton. xme Iareh 16, 1894, eleven years
ago. ~ad a quotation at length. be-
fore the American League of Honolu-
lu, relative to the right observance of
the Sabbath. 1t expressed my views,
quite clearly, and I have never seen
any reason for changing. By your per-
mission it is as follows:
Because an immortal soul tenants
our mortal body. God has given US an
Inalienable Right, one day in seven,
in which man may rise to his true dig
nifty, A Seventh Day of Rest from
Labor The workman is On the Sab
bath Gods Free Man; the day is God s
for him (man) and his for God S
apart from God, its glory is gone.
Therefore any expedient for helping
him to spend the Sunday is utterly be-
meath his acceptance which does not
take into account His True Dignity as
a being composed of soul and body.
The body must not be neglected but
the Claim of the Soul is Paramount.
ut is argued. when Christ came He
announced a new principle as to the
Sabbath: The Sabbath is made for
man, and not man for the Sabbath,
and therefore. the Sabbath is handed
over to man to use as he judges most
to his advantage; God has relinquish-
ed any special claim upon it, and its
character is changed from a holy day
to a holiday There are two answers
to this:
First, taking the verse itself and
find the true meaning and force of the
proposition for and we have, Sab
bath was made on account of man,
and not man on account of the Sab
BATH Therefore it is not for mans
wilful doing with it as he pleased. ac-
cording to his own private interpreta-
tons. but it is 'on account of mans
needs as a being, remembering always
that his being is made UP of body and
soul together and that the one must
not be attended to the exclusion of the
other. And the
Second answer is, if you make it a
matter for your own personal inter
probation as to how the Sabbath is to
be used, then you must look to Christ.
the rightful Lord of the Sabbath, and
see how TIe used it. How did Christ
spend His Sabbaths? Synagogue wor- |
ship is a prominent feature of them; !
it was. we are told, His CUSTOM Again !
it was His practice to relieve suffering |
by works of healing and He vindicat- |
ed such an employment of the day |
trfumphantly against the cavils of the /
is also a feature of Christ's Sabbaths |
After leaving the synagogue, we hno |
Him turning into the house of friend, |
a welcome and beloved guest. As to |
recreation and bodily refreshment the |
walk through the cornfieids was reck- |
oned by Him no Dissertation of the day, !
and He enjoyed the Sabbath evening |
walk to Emmaus in company with two I
though He deprecated a journey |
under any circumstances which would |
destroy the tranquility of Sabbath |
rest. Pray We that your flight be not |
on the Sabbath day
''These few gleanings from the life
of Christ, our example, and the found
er of the Christian dispensation, may
serve to show the general principles on
which He would have US interpret the
in it thou shalt do no MAN.
ner of work
1--WE gather, the Sabbath is day for
the direct worship of God, and COM
rnunion with Him, and as such is call
ed, in the latest book Of Scripture, Ihe
Lords Day
1T is a day for bodily rest and re-
freshment in which the toll should |
cease by which We win our bread IN
the week.
cit is a day on which all necessary
bodily wants may be attended TO. 1t IL
a day when the ignorant and the SUI
fering have a special claim on US. II
Is d day for enjoying happy social n
tercourse with members Of our family
and intimate friends. Such relaxation
as is needed by body and mind, a
quiet, private walk. for instance, or
the singing of sacred songs OF the en-
ioyment of the beauties of Gods work
in creation, is not discordant with the
observance of the Sabbath
While there may be some debatapIe
points in the foregoing lengthy quota
ion, still. upon the whole, ii expresses
IN general a standard rather ideal N
character, as to true Sunday obserV-
ance And yet, we do not. Of course
advocate any attempt to compel sucn
observance through human law, for Ve
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