Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-09
he coming judgment.

! the coming judgment.
 Then, again, what right has our
 postoffice officials to compel labor on
 Sunday in order to give mail de- livery. Not a church in our city bu.
 what is damaged directly or indirectly by this disregard of the law con- manding cessation of labor on the Christians Sabbath. Any attempt at justification of this violation is born in want of respect for the rights of others secured to them by both the law of man and the law of God.
 Sections 2034 and 2O35 demand a { cessation of secular business on Sun day. The average school-boy knows the meaning of secular business, and so does every Sunday lawbreak- CT in the city of Pine Bluff. Drug stores, bakeries, ice plants, cold drink stands and saloon restaurants are the chief violators of this section of our Sunday laws. Should any one of these plead in extenuation necessity or charity the only legal exceptions given in the law, he knows quite we'll in doing so he is guilty of whipping the devil around the stump and that the service of the Almighty Dollar IS his true explanation for Sunday open ing. The necessary prescription bus mess of the city can easily be attend ed to on any average Sunday by two Or three prescription druggists allow ing both druggists and stores to be arranged in a series, thus setting at liberty all the operatives in obedi- ence to the law for almost every Lords Day in the year. Shall God or Mammon control the day? That is the only question to answer.
 Sections 2036-2041 speak out in un- mistakable language on the subject of amusements on Sunday, and for most excellent reasons forbid cock-fighting horse-racing, gaming of all kinds in- cluding card-playing, hunting and baseball playing. Not one of these is tolerated on Sunday for amusement. Why are these so very attractive amusements forbidden on Sunday !? For the very reason that roller skating, dancing, comic picture shows and merry -go-rounds ought to be stopped on Sunday. They are utterly out of harmony with the spirit and purposes and the sanctity of the
 Lords Day They are thoroughly subversive of the physical rest sought to be granted on that day and de, structive of all desire for Intellectual moral and religious culture offered On that day. Those needing these the most are the more easily enticed to said amusements, and that, too, not as benefaction to the enticed, but to increase directly Or indirectly the in- come of the operatives. Should Dr. Alexander erect On his beautiful lawn a merry-go-round and operate it on Sunday night for the amusement of the invited public, without charge with the definite understanding that on the six other nights of the week he would operate it and charge, he would harlly escape the charge of Sabbath-breaking and that, too, for sordid and selfish considerations. Let no one in an unguarded moment be foolish enough to think that man be- comes a benefactor to the race by running a Flying Dutchman on Sum- day or by the exhibition of comic pictures, moving or otherwise, all free gratis. Neither let any man think that the day has come for Gods ministers, standing as watchmen on the walls of Zion, to quail in fear before that class of members in their several churches who prefer such amuse- ments on the Lords Day to listen ing to discourses on practical living subjects involving eternal issues"