The Detroit times., 1917-12-14

I forces which uuderlie these. and
have made them realities iu the his.
tory of The race To sacrifice light
ly he Christian standard OF moral
, IT'S. fhe Christian home. and The
/ Christian sabbath, would bc really
I to undo w hat bias been $50 tOtlsOmely
done by these years of sacrifice and
/ suffering 10 4. no small thing 20
hold ourselves up 20 the level OF the
/ ideals which have carried u5 into
/ This war
Greater than the need for generals
or sirategi5ts or economists OF in
/ yentOrs. p This Time of stress is the
need OF men and women of clear
moral and ethical and spiritual
, vision. who without sensationalism,
and without losing their patriotism,
viii call the Christian nations back
| tO an appreciation OF The ultimate
yeplucs That these are bound up
( with monagamy. the Christian con
cepti0n of personal virtue, is easily
demonstrate such teachers VIII
prepare us GO conduct our common
life ON the same high plane upon
which this war for humanity has
been maintained. The sacrihcial les
son OF the battlefield viii not have
been learned Ia vain.
What Kind Of Sunday
Reacuonaries and conventionalists
are not the ones 10 call the world
back 20 the great essentials. The
men whose religion is perfunctory,
md acquired. like a suit OF clothes,
IN a theological shop. can have
small part in this Renaissance. Illib-
cral and lntolerant folk. whose creed
is a set OF rules and negatiOns, are
likewise untitled for this greatest OF
tasks imposed by the war. IL needs
cosmopolitan men, OF a charity like
unto that OF Christ, and with a meas
use or His own passion for right.
/ eousnoss, and able 20 SEQ beneath
the overlay OF the centuries the es-
sential principle, TO arouse the world
20 an appreciation OF the heroic
I proportions or me religious task
/ that lies before the church today
Clearly. We cannot have back the
/ Puritan Sabbath Nor do we want
IT, 10 savored more OF old John Mil
/ ton than OF the Bible II was a
darksomc thing with little OF the
sweetness and joy OF even the jew
ish Sabbath about it Who can 'eli
The tale of the children whose lives
have been shrouded by ihe gloom Of
!H+-- tttf-t-r-7-urdi INSTITUTION, VIII IT.
! hcapnd up aobnCal rules. al ms
posed iu the uamo of Che LORD who
broke old boudaECs on that day or
E
lntH restrictions is gone
Eu, DO los srea0 Wu do NOT want
sabbath that s more houday
For what j, only q holiday for some
is likely to- become WCgkuay ioT
an Britain has learned, during thp
stress OF war that 10 Us economical
ly unsound no attempt 10 increase "a
manufactured output by seycn-day-a-
week labor Tho principle of Sab
bath was written ia the nature of
man long before 10 was written on
tables of stone. The sacred first law
oi rest day uUderlies al true Suu
ping
II 10 may not be q mere holiday
10 surely must bo g holy day, day
with divine stamp upon it. day
which comes whispering softly. like
a summer breeze, 4 am not like
other days" The man who thinks
he can keep the Sabbath on The golf
/ links, or I'm bed, is either deceived
himself or is deceivlng others The
Sabbath WAS made tor man, but IL is
nevertheless the Lords Day n Is
sacred 90 rest of the body and r.
freshment OF the spirit. That is
why II should be a home day-not
a merry making day--and "a church
going day Obviously, if The Sab
bath goes the church goes with it
and II the church goes, religion
goes! and IL religion goes. morality
goes: and II morality goes then
civilization goes That is no new
lesson 10 has been written over and
over again upon the pages OF his
tory.
The issues az stake, at the present
time and IN connection with this
particular subject, are not light
ones They strike their roots down
20 the fundamentals of Life In the
preservation OF wholesome and
holy Sabbath. even tho II differ
greatly from tho institution as our
grandfathcrs knew IL, there are IN
volved considerations as important
as anv OF those FOR which civiliza.
ton is now battling on the soil OF
Europe, Asia and Africa