Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-11-12

! other words man Is so made that he
needs a Sabbath from Saturday ev-
ening to Monday morning of COM
| plete rest to be as good as new
Without this he is never at his best,
physically, mentally, morally or
spiritually. So we find the Fourth
Commandment in the nineteenth
century echoed from the biological
laboratory with tremendous empha-
sis, and again we are compelled to
admit that He who spoke at Sinai
must have made the brain cell and
understood its secret working. And
again is our faith made firmer that
the Old Book is not wholly man
made"
Labor speaks.--The man who lab
ors ought to know. He has the
| experience that bringgs knowledge
on this subject. Samuel Gompers.
! who has never been regarded as a
reformer, says: "Seven-day workers
are positively poor workers." and he
contends for one days rest in seven.
The Actors Equity Association
energetically contends against Sun
! day theatrical performances. It is
| said that Harry Lauder forfeited
100000 by refusing to accept Sun
| day engagements on his tours In
America. But was it not that much
| gained.
Notwithstanding the protest of
the actors, the theatres and moving
picture shows persistenly demand
that they be allowed the privilege
of violating the Sunday closing law
in every state. On the same Sunday
evening when the worlds greatest
evangelist {Gipsy Smith) addressed
barely 1000 people at a union SER
vice in the heart of Brooklyn. one
single moving picture house regis
tered 4,200 paid admissions. Can
1t be true that four persons spend
+ Sunday evening with Fatty Ar
buckle and Charlie Chaplin to every
one that attends Sunday evening
with Christ in the church?
This leads to the Lords Day and
| morality. Washington, the wisest
of statesmen. said: I'm vain may we
hope to maintain the moral charac-
ter of people without religion
Blackstone. the greatest of law
eivers. opines: "The proclamation OF
the Sabbath is usually followed by
q flood of immortality
Judge Alton B. Parker once re
marked I'VE need the Sunday Of
our mothers to keep our social life
what it should be-"
Says Justice Mclean of the sI,
preme court of the United States:
Where there is no Christian Sab
bath there is no Christian morality.
and without this free institutions
cannot long be sustained.
The Lords Day I'D J;hortv
Mark Hopkins declares that there
has been no instance of a people
that kept the Sabbath that has not
been a free people He shows in
disDutably that God has Joined lib
=erty with the sacred Sabbath.
American is a Christian nation.
She has adopted the Ten Command,
ments, including the Fourth. That
is what institutes her a free and
civilized nation. Violate the Sab
bath and you destroy one of the
great pillars upon which rests both
our liberty and our civilization.
President Wilson put it as we'll
as any one can when he said. 81
never can accept any man as
champion of liberty, either for our
selves or for the world, who does
not reverence and obey the laws OF
our land, whose laws we ourselves
have made. He has adopted the
standars of the enemies of his coun.
try. whom he affects to despise."
The enemies of the Sunday clos
ing law are characterized by a true
American as follows:
"a principal menace to Sunday as
Americans observe it lies in the pre-
sence of so-called Red radicals.
Not only do their European expert
ence and radical traits prevent them
from approaching American ideas,
including the idea of Sunday: but
their radicalism is of the kind. Soc
ialistic, Communistic, Bolshevistic. +!
or what not, that, while obsessed |
with notion Of reason, binds it.
self to atheism. And whatever con-
cessions this nation may make to
individual liberty. II cannot safely
foster a sentiment anywhere within
its borders that would yield to such
thinsg as baseball. or the theatre,
or even the Socialist orator. in the
American Sunday, any of that pre-
cedence which has always been ac-
corded as a matter of course to the
public worship Of God"
The Lords Day and Proggress-
I is undeniably true that those