The Alaska citizen., 1916-04-03
Sermon to the People
 
BY THE REV. G. G. BRUCE

was at Oxford saying to one of my ! friends, as we were strolling around i Magdalene's narrow. bird-haunted walks one morning in the year be fore I took my degree, that l want l ed to eat of the fruit of all the 1 trees in the garden of the world, and that I was going out into the world with atht passion in my soul, And so indeed, I went out, and sC 1 lived There was no pleasure ! that I did not experience: I threw the pearl of my soul into the cup of wine; went down the primrose path to the sound of the flutes" No man has a right to eat of God s forbidden fruits.
 God has rights that cannot be avoided in this question of the Sab bath. He has concern for the tired they may go forth to the burdens of the hour He has a right to pre- serve one of the golden days of the seven for Himself and to throw hedge of protection in worship around all His creatures. Listen to the simple parable of the vii lage parson as he walked through the commons one day and observed the boys at Sunday ball. What think you of his argument? The boys gathered around him pledged for story. Once there was a rich man hailed ty a traveller and peti- toned for aims. The kindly rich man gave him six shining silver dollars, and reserved but his last to complete his journey. When he learned this the beggar clubbed the philanthropist and robbed him of the last penny" The boys were filled with indignation and offered to find the beggar and give him a sound beating. Well" said the par son, God has given you six days for the work and toll and provision for the body, and now you knock Him dwn and rob Him of the sev- enth. Is not one day His by right?
 But someone remarks. Tt is child ish to think that God concerns Himself in these little things | dol" But life is fabric woven by delicate looms, and the breaking of one little thread has to do with the strength of the entire piece Certainly if man feels he has fiber ty to keep the Sabbath as he pleases he will grant that right to every other man. else He does not love his neighbor as himself" Has the toiler, forced 10 work against his better desires, any rights in the matter? Are you going to comp,
 the caddies, the ball players, the enc occupations that are served for the pleasure 10 the public, by those who are deprived of any rest on the Sabbath day? There are approximately 10000 moving pictuI> places in the United States, and 200 GOO people are employed in that business. Is not a mans social responsibility involved in a condi tion of affairs that demands the Ia bor of such q vast company of his fellows on the Sabbath day in which he gratifies his special form O. pleasure and denies to that group of his fellow; any rest whatsoever
 We have pure food laws, -egulat ing the sale ot milk to the babies of the land. We have insurance laws to protect those who live in houses that may burn We have districts in our cities where W" would not permit anyone to put up an oil refinery, because it might endanger our homes, or detract from the beauty of OUT neighborhoOd So whether a man will recognizo the rights of God or not, certainly he would solve such question on the ground of all men beine created free and equal, with the in alienable right pursuits of happi ness and rest, that efficiency may result and society be benefited.
 It is significant that when the question of closing the moving pic ture places in London was agitated a few years past, one of the fore most to protest was Harry Lauder. because he said that m an tn. later opening of the music halls and the theatres, and the giving of seven days work for six days pay AS member of St Peters Presbyterian church, of Lon don, Mr Lauder had discerned the unbridled greed of the six-nightar who desired to satiate his silly selfishness with seven nights of empty mirth.
 Horses that drog he.vy burdens seven days in the week are proven less efficient for a years service than those that are permitted one days rest in seven. Kernels of grain that are forced by constant growth are never so solid as those bava tho pipht Tho