Evening journal., 1919-04-10
WEEKLY TOPIC
SOCIETY ITEMS
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CITY AND STATE UNIONS

Topic, How to Give Gods Day to God
like Deeds" BY Ralph Minker, for
merly assistant pastor Grace NJ. L.
Church, now a student at Dickinson
College.
Some questions live for a day, week.
a generation, and then pass out OF
mans active thinking TO become mere
memory. The question, however. which
Is The topic Of the week, regarding con-
duct on the Sabbath Day has stood flrm,
despite change of civilization and shift
ing or racial lines, challenging the
thought OF red-blooded religious folk
down the years. The question confront
ed The Hebrews in the time Of Moses
and it confronls Americans in the time
OF Wilson. How shall we give Gods
Day TO Godlike deeds?"
Now we are living In the Christian
era and the Sabbath Of Christ or the
Christian Sabbath is our standard. In
twentieth century terms, what should
be our attitude TO and actions on the
Day?
The abuses TO the Christian Sabbath
are many and fun too gaIring 20 be |
passed over without some mention. |
During the war time, bringing as il has |
cities and restless minds, a |
great many arguments have been adj |
vanced In favor Of an open Sabbath !
The day, characterized in the Bible as /
The holy day, has been transformed into /
a holiday. The question Of Sunday base |
ball is booming again all over the coun-
Try. open theatres have been urged by
many. Along with these larger phases
Df the Sabbath problem are 10 be found
numerous smaller practices that might
be lined up under the general head of
abuses Of the Sabbath Day. TO some
people. Sunday means simply an auto
mobile trip. To others, Sunday means
simply a trip on the lake or river.
Why should the practices outlined
lbove be considered as abuses TO the
sabbath Day2 In the first place. these
are out Of accord with the real
pirit Of all action on the Sabbath Day
instituted by Christ, which spirit will
'e treated a little further on in this ar ,
icle. Then in the second place, the I
iodhead, the Divine Being, for whose I
yordship and exaltatlon the Sabbath I
lay is mentioned, is usually given a +
cry obscure position in the thought G
r life Of one, who has as his god, one
The aforementioned abuses. Il
Now that we b3ve dealt briefly with {
he abuses TO The Sabbath Day, what n
ind Of deeds should find their places II
} our schedule for the Sabbath? The a
ctiOns Of Jesus on the Sabbath Day q
,asr |
amely. those actions which had TO do f.,
18th physical Wilderness, those actions
'hichNIad 20 do with social intercourse
nd those actions which had to do with
pirit uplift
The Son Of God came once with heal
lg in His wings and He healed To-
ay the Son OF God is revealed I'm the
ves Of men and the mission of these u
len through whom lie is revealed is TO |
heal the broken-hearted, 20 preach de- !
verance 10 the captivos and recover =
lg Of sight TO the blind" In every
ommunity there are those who are =
cary with tho race Of life broken and
iaimcd for one reason or another H.
here could hardly be a nobler way OF =
rowing the real spirit Of the Christ :
ian for the Christians of that com n
unity. on the day of the Lord. TO sin n
e out those aching hearts, help them n
by binding up their wounds m
Id inspire them spiritually by the
iril Of friendship. Il
In regard TO spiritual uplift. there
e just three ways in which our ac- f,
ms should turn on the Sabbath Day. u
Iere is private meditatiin. How few Of
4aIr - "a,
let moments Afforded by meditation
examination Of ourselves ard in
,cing our faulty natures alongside Of q
g ideal cannot be overestimated
ere are a great many people who u
iste a great many minutes Of the -
bbath Day by just sitting around "
ID no definite purpose in mind, while -
, finest instruments for spiritual up lD'
} are lying around untouched. But ~
G OF the finest, II not the finest meth q,
Of building up ones spiritual ma %
re is public worship and prayer. ~
hen we realize in Me assembly Of 80
, saints that ~,
3 all are servants Of one Master, 20
Christ: ne
und by one law. redeemed by one IN
love.
d every brow sealed with the self -
same print X
blessed brotherhood -
en- life becomes larger and vision
oader. Ther are no living souls who
ould not on one day Of the week,
'k up TO the Divine Being and praise IA,
M for life itself And think of the
St spiritual blessings due one who NJ.
lses accurately and praises fully the ra,
vine Being, for you know that he .Ii
10 is In tune with the spiritual forces =,
The world is allied with the forces -,
at move the world. W,
up the deeds Of the Sabbath 80,
~ under the three heads, physical ~,
loleness, social intercourse and spir- !, 40
ial uplift, we can see our part as ~
tristan young people in the world. ~
e can't afford TO be idle. butwith the D0
al OF Christ we must burn deep into
ems hearts this fact
That Sabbath well-spent. !
Brings a week Of content. ha
But we can't do this work until we st'
We realized with Longfellow that W.
he Sabbath is the golden clasp which '' an
lds together the volume Of the CI,
ek." an
lext Sundays topic will be written vii
Miss X. +. Strickland and Russell
Irgess Of North Baptist Church. Fo