Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-01-09
THURSDAY. JANUARY 9. 1908
THE SUNDAY QUESTION.
tThe Kansas City Post,

lOuS do ITO ludluLdAAOQ blub uO was
performing his duty as Judge and
upholding the majesty of the law
as he understood i, there was a
certain amount of dignity in his
position. But when he descended
from the judicial bench to speak at
church meetings, he revealed him.
self as a bigot and fanatic, and
nothing more. Every speech that
he has made thus far has been an
asinine performance, showing as
clearly as human words can show
anything, that not the law but his
own personal belief that Sunday
ought to be observed in a certain
fashion was responsible for his
crusade.
Judge Wallace talks great deal
about Moses and his law. Would
he have us infer that we are still
living under the law of the Hebrew
law-giver? 1t may be that Judge
Wallace would like to see the old
Hebraic laws made obligatory up
on all American citizens, even to
the extent of forbidding the use of
pork, but we have not reached that
stage yet, though itmay be that we
will reach it after awhile.
The law of Moses had much to
commend it, no doubt, at the time
when it was first enacted. 1t was
probably very good thing that a
people living in a very warm cli-
mate were instructed to abstain
from the flesh of swine, and in
view of the fact that the Jewish
state was based on a certain con-
ception of God, there was a certain
reasonableness in the institution
of the Jewish Sabbath. But the
American Commonwealth is not
the Jewish state. 1t is not bas ed
on a certain conception of God,
and the law of Moses, with it's Pc
culiar Sabbath, is no more obliga-
tory upon the American people
than are the laws of Lycurgus or
the laws of Manu- or the laws of
Numa Pompilius.
The attitude of Judge Wallace
; on the question OF Sunday observ-
ance is not even Christian. Jesus
! Christ was accused of being Sab
bath-breaker, and, as a matter OF
fact, he was. He took long, lks
, on the Sabbath day, and those
long walks were against the law
He healed man on the Sabbath
day. That was against the law,
too. All the Judge Wallaces in
Galilee and Judea were nightly
incensed over the acts of this SUI
l perb law-breaker, but what a God
II like answer he gave to his accuser'
% when he declared, "The Sabbath
y was made for man, and not man
Il for the Sabbath"
st. Paul was not a Sabbatarian
! In one of his epistles he says: "Dt
4 not let any man bring you to judg
! ment as to meat and drink, or
,f] holy day, or the Sabbath" Ac
j cording to st. Paul, man should b.
: as free on the Sabbath as on an.
j other day, which proves that h
& was free spirit.
= Does Judge Wallace really be
Ilieve that he is better Christian
y than st. Paul? Does he really thin
:, that he remembers some Christian
truth, which st. Paul had forgot
!, ten? Ii one may judge not onl!
= - from his actions, but from hi
words, it would appear that Judg
" Wallace regards himself as bet
ter Christian than even Christ.
=, Judge Wallace cannot pick vi
- his New Testament and justif,
- himself before one of the Christ
20 ian congregations which h
harangues on Sunday. He ga
= Justify himslf only by takin
- Moses ais his authority that bot
- the Master and st. Paul repudiated
= Judge Wallace may be a maste
- of Mosaic law, but he has evi
IDENTIFY much to learn of tn
- Christian gospel.
! Nearly all the great Christia
- teachers and theologians, outsid
- of English and American Puritan
:. ism, have advocated a free Sun
: day; yes wide-open Sunday,
!. you will. Martin Luther, tn
4, founder of Professionalism, said t
i his followers Of Sunday: 81 orde
4 you"-mark we'll that word, Sol
n. der'--ssI order you to ride on tha
day, to work on it, to feast on il
4 to do anything to remove the en-
croachment on Christian liberty
5is Does Judge Wallace regard him
A. self as a better Christian tina