The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-05-30
CITIZENS WOULD
MAKE SABBATH
EFFECTIVE HERE
Six- Six Citizens Have Signed Pc
sition Concerning Visitation
OF Sabbath.
SEgaIFF ASKED TO
GET AFTER VIC ATORS
Church People Launch Movement To
Preserve Sabbath As A Day
Of Rest.

Launching movement locally to
preserve the Sabbath day as a day of
rest and worship, and calling atten-
ton to a general violation Of the
sta.e laws as we'll as paragraphs of
the Bible, local church people are
circulating petition throughout the
city this week concerning the matter.
Up to Wednesday the petition had
been signed by 66 well-meaning and
leading citizens of the town. The
petition reads as follows:
One CT the gravest problems con-
fronting the Church and the world
today is, in our judgment, the preser-
walton of the Sabbath as a day Of
res. and worship. There seems to
be growing tendency to think Of it
merely as day for recreation and
frivolous entertainment, and for the
promotion of enterprises that find
profit in catering to the pleasure-lov-
ing spirit Of our people.
We rejoice in the great truth hat
Christ taught, that the Sabbath was
made, for man, no man for the Sab.
bath. We have no disposition to
insist upon the observance of the
dag that would make it a burden
10 grown people and punishment
to children, but we cannot but view
with alarm the conception that It Is
nothing more than day Of the week,
10 be used simply as other days are
used-for business, pleasure, conve-
nience of ~ kind as within may die
tate. III
1t is aSdiSine provision for a fun
damentas need of human nature, and
when we disregard that provision, we
suffeFtines..ably in body, mind and
spirit,
We do we'll to set ourselves stead
tasty against every attempt to make
our American Sunday kind of ma
tional holiday without restraint Of a
keen seneitiveness of our moral obi
cations. We must save Sunday, or
sacrifice one of the bulwarks .-of
Christian Civilization.
The Bible says: Remember the
Sabbath Day to keep it Holy"
The State says:
NV.
"Of Violation of the Sabbath.
"3O29 (1723) 22S9. Sunday
working on--forfeiture. If any
merchant, artifcer, tradesman, far
mer or other person shall be guilty Of
doing or exercising any CT the com
mon avoca ions of life, or of causing
OF permitting the same to be done by
his children or servants, acts of real
necessity or charity excepted, on
Sunday, he shall, on due conviction
thereof before any justice, of The
reaee of the county, forfeit and pay
Three Dollars, one-half for the per-
son who will sue for same, the other
half for the use of the county.
emo. 8. Penalty for single VIC
la.ion: Indictment for successive VIC
lations as for nuisance. A single
violation of this statute may render
the offender liable only to the penal
ty prescribed; yet succession OF
such act becomes a nuisance, and
renders me offender indictable, II
done so openly as to attract public
observation"
"G994. Sheriff. The Sheriff is
tire principal conservator of the peace
IN his county, and it is his duty tC
suppress all affrays, riots, unlawful
assemblies, instructions, or Other
breaches of the peace, to do which
he may summon to his aid as man.
&C the male inhabitants of the count!
rs he thinks proper"
We therefore most respectfully re
quest all OF our members and friend
of morality to give heed to Gods cal
leersin /sssecdE. needless violation
CT it, an ask our Sheriff to see tina
no business is allowed to run in opel
sAAtion of law.