The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-24
"White Ribbons and Blue Sundays !.
nv Rev George Peoples Down Town Service
Victoria Theatre, Last Night p F9

not educational has no Justification
With this incisfve observation the pass
tor Of the Wheeling Baptist Temprs
opened his discouse. at the VICTORIA
theatre last evening. His theme, White
Ribbons and Blue Sundays" was dealt
with as follows:
Dry Legislation and the proposed
Sunday blue-lavs are both to be success
full in direct proportion to the educa-.
ton their agitation produces. The coun-
try went dry by law a year ago ana
thirty years Of education which finally
led to the general conviction that the
: saloon and manufacturing industry be.s
hind It were social and economic lei.
lacies. The really significant part the
white ribboned w. c. T. U. played wass
in that shrewd and most timely nIecsa
Of education, instigated by Francis VIII
lard, which caused to be placed In every
school physiology book the teaching
years ago the facts about alcohol nter-s
ally baking the vital tissue OF the brain
and the intestinal tract and It's injury
to the nerve centers Of the human body,
This teachrlng raised a generation OF
men, which organized the Anti-Saloon
League. increased the educational ag1ta-
ton and secured the Eighteenth Amend-.
ment-the nation having become morals
w and industrially convinced OF the
need. ALI social and moral REFORMS
should take care to take this deliberatei
and certain path\'to success. History
has demonstrated that you cannot short
circuit on society. Our social Ike u
NOT n mechanism but an organism ano
rirhtrully insists on arriving into us
tomorrows by the laws OF growth ana
not OF force. Agitation that ID irrlte-s
,ion and not educational has NO tustin'
ca ton.
4 number Of our states have Sunday
observance laws working wall west.
virginia is one Of them. Recently some
Of our states have lcgislated away tneM
Sabbath laws and some cities oy tnelI
1oucal elections have done the sarne.
These lapses have been almost. tnvari-
ab1y IN states and in localities ~hernS
there is a large foreign population pte-
v;ously used to the wide open conlenen.
tol Sunday, long in vogue IN degencfshs
in European countries.
Some years ago the French people BE-.
Iieyed themselves to be natuFaiy
virgil and energetic that they no lonks5
needed the rest afforded on the Saoeth
day, Their national house OF depuueb
Icgislated away altogether the necessary
- cu,dar observance. Within the nftt-
two years Of the new regime the polu.
lotion of the country's prisons ana iney
sane asylums nearly doubled.
French people then lesislated TO %.
serve every tenth day as day OK TEST
and there was still no change In tns
nrison and asylum statistics. F1euhes9
a., M. oct normal until the finally re-
established the one day In seven trJ1
r.rpement Of the inspired Ten CoMs
w.ndments. Although she has ner NJ. I.
tion,I Ribical Sabbath Europe 'oosefSess
!, onIv In the loose continental was anqs
rurope Is perishing morally. The sp1fn-
nal lessons Of the great war h,pe.
has missd Those who have roceapy
,eturned from q tour Of the waf-rvAssu
countries report that vice is moro ren'
nant than in 1914. Europe lost
mora, noise when she lost her observe
christian day Of rest and worsnlp.
allow the American Christian Sa0peH
"a become secularized like deEenefattne'
Europe's will SOW the same deatn-oes
,np concers into our nations VitaAs aso.
Sabbath in the eEinninE Of human BIS
+orv was not a mere ecclesiastic1i 20
ncdjent. II was a day designated oy ts
r-o,to- for the necessary and moral use
~ man. Man Is the only part OK cts
,Ior that a.pires. That Is why suneeS
will. always be absolutely essenusi w
MANS continued climb up the Sleeps y
essential achievement. When men
,r,rc right than wrong in the world,1
day and its rcviving privileges WIN
,oyouslv opened with the dawn ana -
With the midnight bell. The enoft wv
h. n enlarge II and not to curtain y
n. Il these crude and sense-lovins oex.s.
4 really loyal citizenship OF any, citS
could do no more effective thins ms
TO increasingly support the church IN IT,
.ire,.ss effort to maintain public reveTs
ance Are the uninspirinE pastors w.
blame How inspiring would an ofeant.s
he II he went to an organ that nan na1
or three-quarters OF It's Keys 1'.
ont? These god-fearing men 90 NOT
care 10 be idolized by their communs.S
hut they do have deep and often
d.sire to he localized by those Tor Wnon
th.v labor. Earnest citizenship 'coSto
very easily rema'te a minister ~ uns3
making by lending itself to sihcsIs
support. Such loyalty would 5000 pro-.
duce n Sabbath and . ministry. tbat
would make the heart see ~idehIh.
heavens, hear supernal music, respona
to new calls Of duty. and sense unmis-
talably the voice that can rule IT,
tumult Of time and hush the wild w.
roar OF all corroding passions.
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