The Penn's Grove record., 1920-08-20
Pagans Want A Roman Sunday

Pagans Want A Roman Sunday
The Sunday in ancient Rome was
named for the Sun god which the pa
gans ~worshipped and was a s%aturnalia
of eating, drinking and pleasure.
When the scum from the slums Of
Philadelphia and Camden float down
the river and land on the shore they
think they are outside the pale OF
Christian civilization and are back in
the times of pagan Rome. When they
become stagnate and strong enough on
the shore and elect one of their num-
Der mayor he thinks himself the
cream of creation.
Such people do not know that the
original settlers having no other law
book than the Bible took the Mosaic
Code for their guidance in morals and
civil conduct and that is what made
the United States a great nation. 1t
will, undoubtedly, be news to inform
ignorant pagans that there is such a
moral law, as this:
Remember the Sabbath Day to
keep it holy. Six days shalt thou
labour and do all hty work. For in
six days the Lord made heaven and
earth, the sea and all that in them is
and rested on the seventh day."
There appears to be a similar case
at National Park where such a class
has f1oated in recent years and start
ed their pagan Sunday at baseball a
few weeks ago.
When pagans become officials they
often think they are laws unto them
selves and know no laws neither moral
nor civil for their personal and Of
fetal conduct. When such ignorant
persons get into office it might be
well for the Mayor and Council-Na-
tional Park especially-to get copies
of the Manual of Laws of New Jersey
and read up on Sunday laws, and be-
come civilized citizens. Therein they
may learn that Sunday, which is the
Christian Sabbath, is made more than
a legal holiday by the Common law
and also the statutes. No legal bust
ness of a civil nature can be trans
acted on that day. Courts are not
open and ordinary processes can not
be served or judgments entered.
Criminals, however, a be arrested.
According to the New Jersey law, all
worldly employment, sports, ETC., are
prohibited on Sunday. Any contract
made on Sunday is void. Money
loaned on Sunday is illegal. Goods
sold on Sunday cannot be recovered
by suit. The penalty for hunting or
carrying a gun on Sunday is $50.
1t might be well for the National
Park Mayor and Council to buy law
books and read up on the laws they
took oaths to see enforced. Then it
may be a case where charity is need
ed from the American Bible Society.
If such is not comprehensive an old
law book should be donated so they
may read up on who may not be adj
mitted as witnesses. Such are inf
dels, atheists and others who profess
no religion which teaches the obliga-
ton of an oath upon the conscience,
or have no idea of eternity or the doc
trine Of future rewards and punish
ments are inadmissible. Idiots, mad
men, l~unatics and children (under the
age Of discretion) can in no case be
witnesses.
It might be we'll for the good people
OF National Park to call in question
the fidelity of their mayor and council.
Their action surely proved they have
no moral conscience. If so their oath
of office is null and void. The fact
that they need to be amused on Sun
day should be proof that they have
childish minds, altho legal citizens in
years of age. 1t will not do to class
the Sunday fans as lunatics because
the asylums are already over-crowded
at Trenton.
The remedy we suggest is for the
good people Of National Park to APP
ply to the Gloucester County Board of
Freeholders for an alien specialist to
examine their compus mentis. Surely
they are aliens from the Christian
commonwealth. The State Board of
Health might be called in to give a
fumigation on the scum from Camden
and Philadelphia-morally.
Those who want to make Sunday a
Roman pagan day of pleasure should
be reminded that all men who worked
in ancient days-mostly slaves-did
not have a rest day until the Sabbath
moral law was enacted into civil law
under Constantine, emperor of Rome
in 1913.
Without a political conscience based
on moral sentiment the democracy OF
America becomes a failure. Moral
corruption precedes political ruin.
National Park needs a new mayor
and council who believe in Christian
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