Evening journal., 1916-04-29

That man. therefore. that cries out
against making the Sabbath a holyday.
and talks so glibly about blue laws"
and their enforcement, only shows his
ignorance. The history OF Sabbath
observance throughout the ages has
been that to make the Sabbath mere
holiday soon makes it as other days,
a day OF toll and labor for the great
mass Of the people.
The Modern Sabbath.
TO illustrate this point look at mod
ern life and tendencies Suppose !
say Il want Sunday 10 do as | please,
and am opposed to your attempt TO
compel me 10 attend church or to OBJ
serve religious worship" In order
that l may do as ] please" somebody
has got to work. / may please to go
70 the Park; and that means thar the
trolley crew shall be deprived of their
Sabbath rest. that I may ride to the
Park. Or, / please to go to the sea-
shore: and that means that a train
crew must be deprived of their Sab
bath rest to take me there. Or
please to go motoring; and that means
that chauffeur and garage men must
! lose their Sabbath rest that / may be
! indulged. ! please to want Sunday
mails; and so to humor me the post
office force and the mail carriers must
lose their rest. l please to buy cigars
and soda-water on Sunday; and so
that 7 may indulge my whims drug
clerks all over the city must be slaves
the whole Sabbath day because Of my
selfish desire TO use Gods holy day in
a way which He has prohibited by His
solemn command. The fact is the
whole business of Sunday traffic is
based on the selfshness of men who
want to rob God Of the time that He
demands man shall set apart for His
worship. It is the man who puts his
selfshness. in the form of love of
gain or love OF pleasure. above his
regard for God and His law that rails
Keeping the Sabbath Holy.
at the Sabbath and Sabbath laws.
But suppose a man is willing TO
work on Sundays, ought he not to be
allowed to do as he pleases about it?
No, no more than a man should be
allowed to commit murder If he so
pleases. Men have no right to do as
they please unless they please to do
right; and Gods law is the final
standard of right A man pleases TO
rob his neighbor: but so long as God 5
law says "Thou shalt not steal,
"Thou shalt not kill" thou shalt not
commit adultery" just so long We
must not allow such a man to have his
own way. So when a man wants, for
any reason, to use the Lords day in
any other way than the way God pre-
> scribes for the mans own sake he
ought to be restrained from indulging
in what will tend to his own eternal
loss. Keeping in the holiest sense
the Lords Sabbath will richly repay
a man here and now. as truly as in
Isaiah's time:
"If thou turn away thy foot from
the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure
on My holy day; and call the Sabbath
a delight, the holy Of the Lord, honor
able: and shall honor Him, not doing
thine own ways, nor finding thine own
pleasure, no" speaking thine own
words:
Y Then shalt thou delight thyself in
the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride
upon the high place of the earth. and
feed thee with the heritage of Jacob
thy father: for the mouth Of the Lord
} hath spoken IT,"
= Close OF Another Year.
This month our City Union closes
another years work. and to tell what
one thing stands out prominently in
the work done. would be impossible.
!. The success OF Christian Endeavor
/. must be measured. not by any special
! work accomplished by the union OF
, the united efforts Of the societies, but
by the uplift and progress of those
: churches whose members received
practical training in the Christian
: EndeavOr Society or Union and are
J devoting to their churches the talents
/ thus developed.
! Get Gether.
What II will mean TO Christian En-
! deavor and our City Union if all Oul
/ members work together the coming
{ year? What can't be accomplished
= Our President can't do il all, the
2 Executive Committee can't do it all
/ but if each individual society and eact
I individual member will get together
e. our City Union can achieve some greai
Z. victories the coming year
/ Some OF our members say we neeC
= more enthusiasm. Well, why dom
2 you get il? There is only one way
1 Go in. and go in all over. Get all th'
information you can, push all th'