The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-06-30
REST DAY:
STRENGTH

Inc iecIuTe Dy Dr- InOlnSOn at tHe
Methodist Church, south last night
was we'll attended. The audience was
well pleased with the address. Fol
lowing the singing of America, Prof.
Brierley sang a helpful solo and DIR.
Fowler offered a prayer.
Mayor Veal presided and said he
considered it an honor to present to
the audience a man of SO widely
known ability and influence as DIR.
Thomson
DIR. Thomson rejofned by saying that
ing his lecture had received by the
churches, public and city press, and
also to be introduced by the mayor.
However. he was accustomed 10 asso-
ciate with such classes. He said.
When recently in Phoenix the COVER
nor of Arizona presided. Waen in
Washington the Secretary of State
presided"
Dr. Thomson is president of '5Ae
Arlington Heights Female College at
Fort Worth and foremost director in
the Sunday League of America. When
delivering several addresses he COW
ers the whole scientific basis for rest
day keeping. but in one address he dis
cusses two phases only.
He showed how one of the funda-
mental principles of American gov
ernnent is the protection of a rest
day The constitution of the United
States protects it. The statutes of the
thirteen original states protected IL.
The government of the White White
protects it. The law of legal transac-
ton protects it. Our fathers recogniz-
ed a constitutional law of our being
that demands it. John Stuart Mills,
who could not be accused of over-re-
ligiousness. by careful investigation
found the factories of England that
worked six days turned out more work
and a better grade than those working
seven days.
The people that obey these God-giv
en- laws, which are in harmony with
mans good, cannot be overtArown, but
when otherwise the reverse in true.
The pagan Sunday of Rome. with it's
excitement, theatricals. debauchery
and lust contributed most to her down
fail Spain lost her opportunities for
permanent glory much because of
her debaucAed Sunday. The reasona-
BILE number of hours for study and
thought in the Sundays of twenty one
years equal those of a classical col
lege course. Quiet Sunday -neans
thought and power.
England has ever guarded her rest
day England controls the worlds
money market and 65 per cent of the
worlds trade.
During a decade i'm California with
out Sunday law her population in
creased 30 per cent, while crime and
pauperism increased 100 per cent.
Since Benjamin Harrison every
president has been a member of the
Sunday League.
DIR. Thomson told of the recruit in
the army at Omaha, who refused to
attend target practice on Sunday, be-
cause his mother would not approve
of it. He was arrested. concentrated
and sentenced to hard labor and re-
duced pay. When the League carried
the case to the War Department, they
were told that a soldier must do what
he is ordered 10 do. Obedience first.
They appealed to President Cleve-
land. A telegram signed by the Pres
ident went to Omaha:
Release private his
salary shall not be withheld. Arrest
and court martial Colonel
for ordering target practice on Sun
day"
He spoke of the Anglo-Saxon ideas
of right and righteousness to infiu-
ence the world through England and
America and that the same kind of
Americanisn should nave recognition
as her basic law, essential to perman-
ent well-being, in the new state of
New Mexico.
The speaker is an orator and
man of wide scholarship and ability
II In Roswell again, he win receive
a large hearing. Closing ne told of the
work Of the League and its education
al building at FIT Worth He asked for
membership and subscriptions and re-
ceived generous response.