The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-12
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MUST CEASE ON SUNDAY
DIR. Carter Ashton Jenkens breaches
Strong Sermon On the Blue
Sunday Law.
SAYS oHoIRs ARE NECESSARY.
Richmond Means to Interfere With
Holy Worship In the Churches.

Declaring that only moral things
should be done on Sunday. DIR. Carter
Ashton Jenkens preached an interest
ing sermon last night in Calvary Bap-
fist Church on the Blue Sunday" law,
which will go 3~to effect in Virginia
next Sunday fSe said, in part;
First what is the day of rest?
Some claim Saturday some Sunday.
The history of the early Christian
Church shows that the Jewish Sab
bath was abolished. The Sabbath
came from the Garden of Eden; the
Lords Day from Josephs tomb. The
Sabbath commemorated creation; the
Lords Day redemption. There is no
express command for the change, but
express statements showing there was
change in the day of worship. Christ
nearly always appeared on Sunday
after the Resurrection, thus sanction
ing it. The early churches met for
worship on Sunday and observed COM
munion on that day There was some
thing Jewish and local about the
Fourth Commandment. The moral ele-
ment remains, the Jewish element has
been swept away.
This commandments Is as old as
man 1t antedates all arts and
sciences. 1t was here before Jabal
stretched tent or Enoch built a city
II 10 oidSi IMAM ltlutitE. lain Walkt0
away from it's affairs of worship to
murder his brother, Abel 1t was
companion in Eden OF that Tree of
Life. whose fruit gave Immortality to
the body. Its glory enswathes the
antlypical Tree OF Life in the Para
disc OF God as seen in the apocalptic
vision Of John the Revelator. And
regardless OF all effort now being
made to destroy It, 1t will survive the
deluge of fire as it did the deluge OF
water. Thus there has been change
in the Fourth Commandment, but the
commandment simply rises to a high
er plane in the Christian than in the
Jewish system.
sabbath L. Physical Necessity.
No nation has ever been civilized
without Sunday. Both soul and body
demand stated rest. Psychologists
may be said to agree on this one point.
that a seventh-day rest is best for the
race, William Pitt the great states
man Of England, had so much bust
ness to attend to that he resolved to
work on Sundays. In a short time It
brought on a stroke of apopIexy. and
he died. Lord Castlereagh worked on
Sunday. He couldn't stand the work
went crazy and blew out his brains
Surely We can agree that there can
be no religion without worship. And
there can be no worship without Sun
day. The Church OF Christ, as WIS.,
ible society, cannot exist on the earth
without Sunday, And yet In some OF
our cities the powers that be are try
ing to cause the nation to revert to
refined paganism. in which soda
water Is the master passi on. And
nothing is proper to be lone on the
Sabbath Day that violates the law of
God. which states:
In it thous shalt not do any
work
But when the Christian Sabbath
goes, all goes-God goes
Experiment. In France.
You know they deteruined to do
without the Sabbath Day. They burnt
the Bible. They said there was no
God, no heaven. no hell. The result
was dreadful. All kinds OF wicked
ness prevailed. The jails were crowd
the best citizens of the land Daily
Blood flowed like water This was
called the Reign of Terror Nothing
so dreadful has ever been known In
human history. They broke down
Gods protecting wall, the Sabbath.
and crime rolled over the land in a
food. Greed, tyranny and oppression
come where the Sabbath goes. 1t Is
always true in It's ultimate and logical
outcome. No Sabbath, no God. And
the doom OF Richmond approaches un-
less the tide turns rapidly backward
1t Will go into anarchy. Its govern
ment will crumble. Its skies will be
lurid whenever the God idea, when
ever mans responsibility to God Is