Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-11
LIVING AND DYING NATION
Continued from Page Six)

words stood chiefly for hereditv. Tn
reality they stand more for institutions
Tor training to which, IL is being discov
e FREQ most OF the credit belongs that was
formerly given to heredity There Is
something in blood, but the best horn
cniid brought up in the slums is likely
70 be vagabond. while thousands Of
sum children placed in Christian homes
ions are made what they are chiefly nv
thelr institutions Already some of our
large cities are showing the effects of
c com institutions in new genera
sporty children, caring for little hnt
amusement. / told the people of a lead
ing western city that 100 years of such
notiuay sundays as they tolerated. filled
SPanlards in all essential particulars
we call ourselves Anglo-Saxon. but most
Iamllles nave more than line of blood
Gr cry IWa ana TOT r instance English, French.
REORGANIZATION papers was asked by the
Judge: what is your nationality?;, He
Iepiled: don't know. Judge: 1 wish
E 10 a,i YOU'D tell me My father was an
ana was born on French shin flying
the Dutch flag. l want to make the rest
o. 9ne voyage of life under the Stars and
Sa STRIPES. That Is fair analysis of Uncle
French-Dutchman under the Stars and
stripes, and that is, under the training
OF Anglo-Saxon institutions. We are
making much of the heroes of Manila
and Santiago. Why not run up in our
own cities the banner America for
American Institutions"
mat Sunday, work should be stopped,
so far as it does not provide sunday
amusement (Which is a very large ex-
ceptfon), is generally admitted; but even
preachers have hazy views of the
grounds on which Sunday amusements
may be condemned and forbidden. The
state forbids Sunday amusements. not as
sinful, but as harmful because: "a They
require work and lead to more and more.
~ Because they mean business" the
sale of amusements being a prominent
branch of trade; go Because they also
interfere with the quiet which the people
need and desire one day in the week;
ana SD Because as a matter of fact. the
breaking of the moral law in the middle.
they promote vice and crime. But to the
Christian patriot there is yet profounder
reason for avoiding Sunday amusements.
great purposes of the Sabbath. ..Wor-
ship and rest do not tell the whole
story. Christ put chief emphasis on do
ing good as the noblest Sabbath keeping.
Sabbath revealed in that fullest state
ment of Gods Sabbath law in Isaiah
LVIII IL, IA, namely to wean us from sell
hshness-a purpose that calls for the
suspension of selfish pleasure no less
than selfish work, and a purpose needed
more than ever before by the Anglo
Saxons as they stand at the gates of the
10Th century. The Latin races are less
In need of 1t, for they are mostly Esaus,
preferring present ease and indulgence
ITO future wealth at the cost of self
denial and strenuous endeavor. They
need laws to make them work more,
rather than less, for they are like the
servant dismissed for violating the
fourth commandment, who protested, II
always rested on Sunday" to which his
employer replied. Yes, and all the other
days, too"
But Anglo-Saxons are Jacobs. their ac-
quisitiveness ever wrestling with con-
science, which would be beaten If not
reinforced everv week by the Sabbath.
As German lady put it, 'IH Paris
everything seems to say, Give Yourself
to pleasure but in London II very