Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-21

TENNIS - little. dancing. all these ArfP
hArm1ee0 diversions. The point y that
evoryboAvfwhoa 10 anybody In Newport
has money enough. and leisure enough,
70 20 MI these things six days IN the
8esk ana that ought to be sufficient.
With = workingman or bank clerk. VINO
has no chAncs to get into the open ar
except on Sunday. the case Is different.
"Fandamentally It 10 necessity that
ought to govern the use OF sunday
Those who can not get any diversion
In the open air during the week may
well demand an opportunity Tor sucn
recreation on Sunday. They have need
of It. But for man who can play golf
or lawn tennis two or three times a
week the need IL not evident"
This seems fine point and Is open
to the query, whether our neighbors or
ourselves are Judges of whether we
can not find time to play golf on Sun
day. Going fishing on Sunday has no
such loop hole. Few men really have
time to neglect their business on week
days to 60 fishing.
TO quote again, "after all Is said ana
done, it is decent thing to show re-
spect for Sunday. Sunday Is an old
institution, a great institution. and on
the whole wholesome institution. 1t
is not necessary to apply to 1t the m
human Journalism which prevailed 200
years ago 1t is not necessary, II Tor
no other reason. because such restric-
tions and repressions In these days
are not sincere. A man or woman VINO
has been shut UP in a factory OF
business office for six days In the week
knows that 1t lie not wicked to walk
abroad on Sunday, or to engage IN
outdoor games which do not disturb
other people, The God of the universe
is out there quite as much as IN any
Of the houses, and in very many cases
that subtle consciousness of an over
shadowing power awakens sponeah-
eously when one is under the free SKY
and face to face with everlasting Won
der. To pretend otherwise may not DE
sheer hypocrisy, but 1t is OF that color,
But 1t is neither good form nor souno
public policy to overdo good thing'
Those who are able to have their sport
on week days do not need 1t on sun
day, and II they do not need it 1t Is no
more than decent that they shouio ao-
stain from 1t on that day.
To this is the weak point that the
majority can not play" on week
dulrinR in their Sunday rights OF en-
toy,nent OF necessity must offend some
Of the minority Sitting quietly on my
porch Sunday afternoon the noise from
the baseball crowd few blocks away,
does not help my enjoyment OF the
sabbath day.
It scarcely needed to be written that
Sunday was made for man and not
man for Sunday-this plain truth has
slowly evolved itself from human ex-'
perience; but the Sunday that was
made for man ought to be recognized
as the good thing that 1t is, and the
relation Of benefit between 1t and man
and far-reaching benefit
ought to be sedulously guarded and
strengthened Those who have almost
every day in the week to do as they
please with may very well take sunday
as the day OF from games and sports;
while those who are shut In for six
days a week nave h Just CLAIM: Of ne
cessity to Sunday in which they. too,
may see with their own eyes how the
great system swings on: In which they.
too, may feel the thrill Of living. the
relief Of relaxation under the blue
sky, the honest exhilaration OF square
sport: in which they. too. may learn
that
\ .acd's In His heaven
Airs right with the world!"
But perhaps the most suggestive
thing is that all this comes from the
land OF steady habits" where Sunday
theaters and Sunday baseball are mat
tets of local option. The prevailing
sentiment seems to keep Sunday OBJ
servance laws on the statute. but DO
as you please on Sunday. always pro
viding the majority OF your town looks.
at the matter OF Sunday observance as
you do. II
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