Smyrna times., 1906-06-27

minds which have literally no founda-
tion in fact. One can find as strong
evidence of moral degradation in any
hundred or thousand men in Delaware
or elsewhere in the United States,
community for community, as can be
found in similar numbers and com
munlties in Spain, France, the Baltic
provinces, or elsewhere in Europe and
the intelligent, impartial man has only
to go there to be convinced. Spain has
her Bull Fights. Yes, our foot ball
may seem equally brutal to them. The
splendid Cathedrals in Spain are
crowded by worshipers at the morning
Masses. The equally notable Cathe-
drals in France are likewise attended,
and the zeal of the Huguenots, the
Protestants of France, is noted the
world over. There are just three Metro
politan and Cosmopolitan cities in this
world, Paris, London and New York.
One can easily find the aOOrst and the
best in human life in each, with the
preponderance overwhelmingly in ia
cor OF the good in all of them. If the
good Doctor can quote a community
that does not observe Sunday and get
its statistics of crime, and then find an
other that does, it will be to the point
to compare and talk statistics.
Fifth-Of course, the Laws of God
are fced jnlnlUtdbLe, but when it comes
to His cOunsels expressed through His
servants, such monitions must be iu-
terpreted by those competent to d. it,
before they can be spread out as DiUjne
ehGctnentS. 1t is at this hour impos-
sible to get any considerable number
OF theologians to agree in the interpre-
tatiOn of the clearest of Scrlptual
phrases. The Nicene Creed is about
the only fundamental verify agreed
upon by Christians in fifteen hundred
years, and it might be added, it is
amply sufficient Orders, rites, cere-
monies. modes of worship are nothing
in themselves. The attempted perver-
version by our Catholic and Episcopal
brethren that they are the one
catholic and Apostolic Church of
which the Greed speaks, is as woefuI
as the Interpretation by others of the
Fourth Commandment.
Clearly, if some voluntarily labor on
Sunday, that others may be benefited,
IS It cOntended that in so doing they
violate the moral law in the sense of
killing, stealing, which is inhibited in
the table of the law?
Sixth-There is no minority worth
mentioning that desires to abolish
Sunday. The Doctor can easily verify
this by questioning those around him.
The sentiment expressed at home is a
sample of all nominal Christian COM
munities.
Seventh-As for our laws, they rep
resent the severe community ideals
when enacted. Things have so changed
that 1t may be these same laws are un-
constitutional on the ground of inter-
ference with the rights of the Nation.
AS matter of fact these laws have
been dead letter for years.
Eighth-No ordinary, unpreiudiced
observer can concede that those who
travel on Sunday by rail or water,
whether to a pleasure resort, as to At
lantic City. or the other resorts and
spas of the world, or to visit friends.
are in the main, any more immoral or
vicious than they ere likely to be at
home.
Ninth--Here comes the crux of the
whole matter. In America we have a
country with every cline and scene.
We have two hundred thousand miles
of rail highways reaching every quar-.
ter. We have eighty millions of Gods
mot the Devil's) children, who labor
faithfully six days a week to earn their
daily bread. For our railways, our
water courses we thank God, We
thank God and our forbears for giving
US day to cease from toll. We thank
Him for making it possible for His
children to occasionally visit His fields
and hills, our friends, lovers and
homes on Sunday. We thank Him for
the opportunity of taking our lunch
basket with our families out of the
weekly sweat place to His sweet and
cheering gardens built by HIS ever
lasting arms for the use of His child
reu. It enables us to enter His court.
with thanksgiving and real praise.
Tenth-The solar plexus blow de
liYered to our amiable and impulsiv,
Chief Justice is timely. and will doubt
less bear good fruit But the gooC
Doctor is surely wrong in his estimat,
of our people. We have faults grievou
and to be corrected, but for every faul
hundred virtues can be found. No
one transaction in hundred is dishon
est in our land to-day. The lurid news
line, the impatient politician has O
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