The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-24

that those who are in it are there
on the money basis. That accounts
for their running a seven-day program.
They openly say that they count on
the extra revenue of the Sunday
crowds to make it pay or to make
it pay better In other words, they
seek to commercialize Sunday. They
wish to make a profit out of the day
that Christianity has given to the
world They try to capit2lize Christ,
and that is exactly what Judas did.
1t is of the same piece The minis
ters believe that this is hostile not
only to the best interests of Chris
tianity but also of the state. Amsr-
ca cannot lose her soul, as Germany
did, and have any different outcome:
The Christian Sabbath, spiritually OBJ
served, safeguards the soul of the
nation as truly as it does that of the
individual. 1t is q strange suggestion,
in these days of reconstruction when
we ought to have learned deeper
things from this war than that we
could lick Germany, that we strike
a blow at the very thing that has
made US fundamentally different from
Germany these recent years. The be-
ginning of Germany becoming a cul
tured beast was when she threw away
her evangelical faith her spiritual
Sabbath and virtually secularized
everything. Give us the continental
Sabbath" and its goodbye to Chris
tianity and the things that have made
America different from the other ma
tions. Democracy is product Of the
gospel. Let is be careful how it kills
its father -
One does not have to look very
deep here in Brookings to see that
after all the churches have been the
basis of the kind of civilization that
we like to live in, and that guarantees
to business it's safety and prosperity.
People have come to Brookings to edu-
cate their children not only because
of the school here, but because of the
religious ideals. Brookings has main
tanned a rather high standard in re-
gard to the Sabbath as we'll as in
some other things. Shall she throw
away her prestige in that respect and
drift to the level of other towns, some
of which say to the Chautauqua man.
ager, Give us anything on Sunday
the rougher the better? Let there
be no mistake about it. 1t is as true
as the law Of gravity that Brookings
could not take the step proposed by
the Register and stop very long there.
Better stay up than to climb back.
There is no need for a backward
step. The situation was awkward
this year. 1t was supposed from the
experience of last year, reaching over
several months. that there would be
no trouble about having a Brook
ings" kind of a ChautauGua on Sun
day The lecture offered this year
was to be good enough of its kind
but other times they have sent a
theater troupe A question of prin-
ciple is involved And if taken in
time and in the right way can he
handled rightly and everybody
pleased. There is no reason why the
ChautauGua cannot put on a great
gripping and thoroughly satisfactory
religious service on Sunday evening,
and they will when they find the
best Americanism demanding ii. We
have got six days in the week for
other things. Why not have a Sun
day evening when the whole commu-
nifty shall be drawn by its highest
emotions and it's greatest fellowship
into great uplift? This used to be.
Is this no longer possible? Alas for
us. if it is. But | do not believe it
Is And certainly it is not the most
worthy thing to pillory the minister's
as social enemies when they stand for
the things which in all sincerity, and
backed up by American history, they
believe to be for the welfare of So
ciety. 1t Is very doubtful II those
who are so ready these days to slam
the churches and the preachers would
care to live very long in communities