Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-13
The Daily REGISTER Richmond Madison County Kentucky Monday b. 1921

elimination Ol tllC Cll ISIl'Ill :
| Sunday.
Picture film producers and
promoters all over the country
are fighting for a seven day bust
ness. The majority of these are
rich and influential Jews, who
having abandoned their own Sab
| bath, seek now also to break
down the observance Of the
Lords day. Not because they
they have something to offer
! which has merit in making a ma
ton better, but willing to confess
that much of their product is bad,
they fight for a Sunday show
because they want the box office
receipts.
Along with these are other
sinister forces who live below the
high levels Of a nations life and
who would lower that level to
meet their own. There are ma
ny evidences that in recent
months there has been a concert
Of action among these in the pro-
motion of a nation wide propa-
ganda for a ''w1de-open" Sunday.
Many newspapers and magazines
apparently subsidized by these.
interests have launched vicious
and relentless attacks against the
church, the ministry and religious
leaders who stand as the cham
pions of Sunday observance.
And thus the question Shall
We Abandon the Observance OF
Sunday" becomes question OF
vital and immediate Importance.
What if America would aban-i
don the observance of the Lords
day? What if the forty seven
states, having Sunday laws.
should abrogatc all such laws !: /
What if the country as a whole
should adopt the wide open poll
cy?
Sweeping changes, unquestion-
ably, would soon be apparent I'M
der the above conditions. There
would be the loss o. moral tone
in the nations life. There would !
he = diSinteorltiOn of those in !
lucnces that count in making
higll-souled men. Morality Is
something that is essentially
connected with a mans religion. /
This Christian SUNDAY, with it
worship, its rest. its thought up-i
on things spiritual, its living
contacts with God, is the thing
which gives moral tone to our
nations life. Not the school, !
nor the college nor the chamber
Of commerce nor the community |
club, but the church. CenterinE
its worship on this Lords day, |
with its high spiritual experience
gives tone to our nations moral
sense.
Not the fourth of July, nor the
twenty-second Of February, nor
the thirtieth Of May can save the
lofty ideals of our nations life
and keep the nations soul alive, !
but this first day of the week, |
which brings together millions of
the finest minds in America to
worship God and study His word |
and to find an opportunity for
rest and spiritual recreation. Ill
we would save a nations soul
we must conserve the Christian S !
Sunday. |
Breaking Up the Foundations
Our country was born of a re-
ligious impulse. Men wanted to
worship God according to the die
tates Of their own conSciences.
Thus they braved uncharted seas !
that they might open to the race
this western world. America |
was born in she cradle of Chris
tianity. The constitution breathes |
the spirit of God and it is no idle
boast that the foundations of thej
republic are the principles off
Christianity. Through these long!
years of the republics life the
Christian Sunday has served toE
keep these early altar fires burn
ing, and to keep alive the lofty +!
idealism of those pathhnders of
the early days.
The abandoning of that Sun
day now means the breaking up
of the foundations. 1t means thei
foresaking of those paths that
have led America to the leader
ship of the world. 1t means the
reputation of those noble pur-
poses out of which America was
born. It means the turning to-
the altar of mammon and away |
from the affairs of God.
1t is not a matter. Of tolerance
or intolerance. 1t is a question
as to whether we shall trade
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