The Penn's Grove record., 1911-07-14
The PENIS Grove Record
FRIDAY, JULY IA, 1911.
sabbath Dissertation Condemned

Thanking you for granting me space
in your valuable paper for this article
which gives me the opportunity OF CIV
ing publicity to some facts in reference
to Sabbath Dissertation or Breaking ehe
Fourth Commandment. I
There may be many who live IN u
town who are not aware OF the sacfl-
ligious conduct of many who come 10
our borough on the Sabbath. am
sorry, also to add, there are a NUMBER
of residents of our borough who nave
no respect whatever for the LORDS
Day. 1t may be l have only a super
fetal knowledge of the many violations
of our sacred day and be ignorant Oh
the grosser evils committed by some
who come to our borough on the Sab
bath to have a high old time.
From the beginning, our government
was founded by deeply pious men, upon
fundamentally religious principles
Nearly all our great Americans ave
been sincere, earnest christians. IhlS
nation will never survive if it forsakes
those christian principles upon which
it was founded-upon which 1t was
perpetuated.
In considering the Sabbath day, no
day is so little understood OF appre-
ciated as this day. Perhaps it has sui
fered as much in the home of its friends
as at the hands Of its open enemies.
The man who does not at least one day
in seven take a look within his soul VIII
soon forget what manner of man he is.
He who spends that one day in frlvollty
and sinful pleasure is robbing himself
as well as robbing God. The purpose
of that day is spiritual development.
ANY other use of the day means failure
for tine individual. the family, and the
state.
The main object of the pleasure low
ing people of our nation (Which IN
cludes a large element of foreigners is
to turn the Lords Day into a day OF
recreation and pleasure, and change 1t
from a hallowed TO an unholy day.
More and more are we Initiating the
Europeans in Jul observance OF the
Sabbath, tens of thousands going away
every Sunday III trains and steamboats,
to different pleasure resorts. Their
one thought is that they may have
what they call a good time. Some go
to the beer gardens, some to the the
aires, some to baseball games and
other to different amuSements.
Sometimes we hear people with a Gull
on their lip speaking contemporary of
the Puritan Blue Law. Those people
who speak thus had better stay
away from our town and 60 where the
laws are more lax. Those who are not
willing to live under such laws have no
place in III country.
What do we see in PENIS Grove on
the Sabbath Day? In proporti III 10
our population L think we keep well
apace with the larger places for Sab
bath breaking. From steam and motor
boats and trains we see hundreds of
people landed here nearly every Sunday
in the summer season. Many of them
bring beer and other strong drinks with
them, and sometimes a sprinkling OF
focf vrn,,on Wa COO cOpon 1runE aD1
hear them using profane and insulting
language.
AS l said in the beginning Of this
article that | saw but little of the gross
Immortality committed by these Sab
bath d%esecratoTs as | spend but very
little time along the shore on the Sab
bath day, and yet L have seen and
heard enough that ought to bring the
blush of shame to the most %depraved
characters.
Upon Ii occasion l and my young
est daughter were taking a walk along
the shore one Sabbath afternoon. /
witnessed a scene of revelry and de-
dauchery that stirred my righteous
Indignation. 1 went Immediately and
reported the same to one of our head
officials and that was all there was to
it. 1t seems to me that officials
many times look with complacency
upon these evil things. Yes, and some
tbmnC annniocno i'm fl,ann MO a1cn cno
a number, of our business places open,
selling their goods on the Sabbath just
the same as week days. We also see
the Sunday newspaper hawked all over
our town.
What does the Fourth Commandment
say? Does selling Sunday newspapers
to people to read help them to keep the
day holy. Mr.. Moody says, HAny
christian who reads the Sunday news
paper will soon back slide. He says if
he goes to church the angel Gabriel
could not get his attention as his head
is filled with everything besides holy
things" These and many other things
| could mention are INDUCED in on the
Sabbath day, and we look upon them
with supine indifference.
We hold up the shiny dollar as of
more value than civic righteousness,
virtue and character of our boys aud
girls.
If we continue to condone the evils
of Sabbath dissertation and are willing
TO adopt some temporary measure for
the sake of the revenue there is in it,
what will be the future of our Sabbath.
Those who are familiar with the his
tory of the Hebrew nation know there
came a time when there was a limit to
Gods patience in dealing with them.
Because of their Sabbath dissertation,
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