Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal. — 1895-02-16 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SABBATARIANISM.  SABBATARIANISM may be said to have reached its climax in an address which has been issued to the Presbyterians of England. In this  manifesto we are told that "Sabbath desecra tion " is the direct cause of intemperance, immorality, murder, suicide, gambling and fraud. The argument is that these evils have On Wednesday afternoon, andi_again on been intensified because Sunday is not univer- Thursday sally treated according to the notions of some afloat as to the heagli re h of the we SwanseareNlstipendiary, dtiprerldioallryn Mr. J. Coke Fowler, who, as our readers are Presbyterians. For example, in some towns taowa hisre , has for the past few days been confined picture galleries and museums are opened onf.nroeme, Betrheesford ff.tiozse, Uplands, that frauds, day; and therefore it follows that the sufferingre murders, and general wickedness in very cold weather. We effects glad to be able to state, as the result those places is directly due to the local habit of inquiries made this (Thursday) morning that of looking at pictures on Sunday. Here is an n; be ia rumour hassti greatly y ,sod exaggeratedeohion i u the seriousnessethe illustration of the relative merits of Authority e and Reason. Authority, as some Presbyterians venerable magistrate is able to attend to his correspondence, and in a letter to Mr. Jenkin conceive it, declares the use of Pictures, Jones expresses the hope that he may be able to secular books, public means qf conveyance, week return oto his police court duties in a day or two. and open spaces on the first day of the at night e there m a was l arevsei to be contrary to religion and morals, and the ing On gy Inineeterett parent of sin. Reason declares this assump- Poplars, llorriston, the occasion being a presentation to Alderman Edwards and his wife of tion to be absurd. As far as we can judge, NwN:elsh and English Bibles respectively. There Reason is likely to prevail, for the 1 we.rejoperesesesoLttliiieantv.:W. E_natyn Jones, Rev. fashioned ban upon every healthful recreation faria), Messrs. Thomas Itev.:._ J. W. Lewis (Calon Sunday, even of the most innocent kind, Hughes (bookseller), John Thomas (Horeb), Thomas Williams is obviously breaking down. It will not be . )Trevr, and W. P. Jones (lion. secsustained by the argument that people who (rietryll This desired dsenttao representative company of visit picture galleries on Sunday are more Nonconformists appreciation of the honour conferred upontl prone to drink, gambling, suicide and murder p(tpularAlderman, and they did in characterthan people who abstain from those exhibi'e fash ion by Mayor copies of 'the Book tion.§. How does the Presbyterian Authority of Books" i(n to thel and Mayoress. The come to a conclusion of that sort ? Is there pastor of Ca. 1 - • Nana presented his Worship, and some peculiar method of statistics by which the Rev. NV. Etnivn Jones the Mayoress, while lively e congratulatory speeches v " were dethe ultra-Sabbatarians are able to distinguish the others present. The Mayor ivu between the murderers anl gamblers who have ted the comolnr for their gifts in a happy frequented picture galleries on Sunday and little speech. . . those who have not ? Or is it cheerfully and Verily' this severe frost has frozen everything. simply assumed that if there are picture The man in 2Esop's Fables who found a frozen flea on his pillow, and warmed it in his bosom, galleries open on that day there must be lives again to-day. .It is said of a prominent citizen, murders and frauds as a direct consequence ? that as he poured a glass of hop-bitters We are afraid that by a similar process of down on Tuesday evening' nt it froze o he reasoning atheism is ascribed by these zealots Passage. The county police aver that crime ii 'oei frozen so stiff it can't stalk around any worth to the influence of newspapers which do not m enttim ing heing. The force feel bashful about drawtreat Sabbatarianism in this form quite r o pay, for they have had absolutely seriously. We siiggest to the Presbyterian nothing do since the thermometer freezing Church in England, or rather to the body point. On Wednesday morning all the county which calls itself the "Synod Committee on of sessions business to be dfoidie.w.as to dispose the State of Religion and Morals," that Crnimviengwilwlitl r at infidelity and blasphemy should be added to lights. Reasoning fromastehiso the list of horrors which are directly traceable' grat.d gallop over the country when the thaw comes, to get some circulation in his legs. top "Sabbath desecration,"