Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-22
REQUIRES
SABBATH'S REST
WORKERS SHOULD UNITE TO
SECURE ENACTMENT
WITHOUT DAY LOCALIZED FOR
LEISURE, ARE SLAVES
Or. Locke Reads Letter from Depart
ment Store Girl Urging His
Assistance Against SUM-
day Toll

his text 1.-THE Sabbath was made for
man and not man for the Sabbath, "
Mark 2: 81, and said in part:
THE Sababth is'a memorial of God $
fatherly care of his children. This
holy institution was established among
the ancient people of God, was thrill
lingly accumulated in the tremblings of
Sinai, and was reinforced by the COM
| nonsense teachings of Jesus Christ,
who declared that the Sabbath was
made for man and not man for the Sab
bath.
1.-The need of a Sabbath inheres in
mans physical requirements Mental
vigor and nerve energies depend on a
sound and healthful physical nature. A
noted physician has said, Men no lon
ger die; they kill themselves! God has
made man for three score years and
ten, and when a man by overwork
drives himself into a premature grave,
is he i'm fact any less suicide! NO
man will die from overwork who alb
solutely rests one day in seven. Men
are living at break-neck speed, and
it Isl certain that only rigidly enforced
law will prevent many such from self
murder. 1t was an expression of infi-
mite love which set apart one-seVenth
of the time as a season of respite from
the burdensome tasks of routine living.
again, the Sabbath is needed as a
home day. 1t is the only opportunity
of many a father to get acquainted
with his family Yonder glistening
memorial leaning against the eastern
sky is not so much a monument to the
father of his country as it is testi-
monial to the influence of the Christian
home, for it recalls Washington's own
words, All that l am l owe to my
mother The home is the palladium
of our republic. and Sunday rest is q
necessity to our home life.
1.-THE workingmen of this country
shou'i stand in solid battle array
against the opponents of Sunday rest.
Not long since 200 workingmen in Paris
discussed the question of Sunday rest,
regardless of religion, and passed a
resolution declaring that the, Sunday Is
necessary to labor, trade, physical
vigor and the moral conditions of So
ciety.'
without a rest day the workingman
is a slave and, if there be no law pre-
venting corporations from demanding
Sunday labor, workingmen will be
compelled to toll on Sunday or lose
their positions. Not only should there
be Sunday rest law, but in lines of
business where Sunday work is impera-
tive, employers should be compelled to
give to each man one days rest IN
seven The Amalgamated Iron associa-
with the Sabbath organizations of west
ern Pennsylvania to secure such en-
forcement of law as will prevent need
less labor on Sunday.
Avarice Is Responsible
Unnecessary Sunday labor can be
charged to the avarice and greed of the
employer and employe, or both. l no.
tice that Sunday theatrical perform
ances are now being condemned by the
actors themselves. They allege that the
entire responsibility rests with the
managers, who are not satisfied with
the profits of six days, but avari-
ciously desecrate the Sunday and COM
pei their employees to labor seven days
in every week. They have asked the
cooperation of ministers in the work of
suppressing the species of Sabbath
dissertation. If the owner of team
of valuable Norman draught horses
requires that the animals be completely
rested one day in the week, ought not
as good care to be taken of human be-
ings? Oh, this murderous Juggernaut
of greed! Everything sacred and holy
and noble is crushed beneath its wheels.
1.-THE Sabbath is necessary as wor-
ship day. Worship inculcates rever-
ence. 1t is a patriotic precaution to
have worship day. Monarchies may
exist by force, but republics will per-
ish without virtue. Sabbath worship
establishes a standard of morals 1t is
the great day for Christian enterprises.
Ten millions of children are on that
day instructed by one million of de-
voted teachers in the things that will
contribute to true character. 1t is the
day for works of mercy and philan-
thropy, and no state more than ours
needs the ministry of devoted laborers
in the hospitals, prisons and .slums.
1.-THE old Jewish idea of the Sabbath
was that the day was to be passed in
rigorous rest, but when Christ REIN
forced the day and established the
Christian Sabbath on the day of his
resurrection he made it not only day
of worship, but also a time of service
to mans moral and physical necessi-
ties. Hence the Christian Sabbath IS
now characterized as a great day for
deeds of mercy and kindness.
Must Be Worship Day
"The Sunday must be especially pro-
tected as q worship day. Any country
and any life is elevated as God enters
into the nation or the individual and
becomes a special possession. 1t is God
in man which lifts man up to God.
Just as it is God in the flower which
makes it beautiful. and God in the sun
beam which makes it a life-giver, and
COO III the ilSHlHlllS HASH WHICH liidhcS
it powerful, so all ideals in the soul
are from God. When the Indian chief
stood before the magnificent new Ii
brary building in Washington and
asked. Made by mani, beautifully did
the poet respond:
The hand of a man hath builded,i
But behind was the heart of God.
"The world needs the great God to
sustain all it's forces and purposes.
The Sabbath is Gods day. When the
Sabbath is destroyed, God is de-
throned; anarchy and disorder will be
speedily followed by disntegration and
death. We must fight for the Sab
1.-The vociferous unbeleVer may insist
that this is not a Christian nation, but
a wise jurist has made this notable
remark, The Christian religion was al
WAYS recognized in the common law,
and so long as that law continues to-
be the law of the land the fundamental
principles of that religion must con-
tinue to be recognized in the same sense
and to the same extent Because this
is a Christian land, and because God is
recognized in our hearts and on our
coins; and because the Holy Bible Is,
honored by nearly all the great states
men of our republic; and because SAB
bat breaking breeds anarchy and dis
order; and because the absence or a
Sunday law compels thousands of men
to work who desire the rest day; and
because of the utter demora1zatlon