Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bishop John H. Vincent of Topeka, Kansas, preached last evening in Appleton Chapel. He spoke of the observance of the Sabbath. He protested against the increasing laxity in regard to this day, and deprecated the ridicule of the old-fashioned Sunday. The church is in danger of losing one of the highest and holiest symbols of verity that man can know. Our exciting American life needs just such relief as this day affords. It gives us splendid opportunity for considering those great questions which every earnest man should consider. It makes possible the personal growth in faith, sympathy and sacred...
...Sunday opening would be un awful. - (a) Against the law of nature: Crafts, Sabbath for Man, 4, 353. Civil Sabbath, 66 - (b) Against the law of God: Method 1st Review, LI. 212. - (c) Against the law of the State of Illinois: III. Criminal Code, ch. 38, S 259; Civil Sabbath...
...Against the sentiment of a large majority: Our Day, IX, 695; Christian Advocate, Dec., 1891. - (c) Saloon keepers unanimously favor it: Our Day, IX, 697, 698. - (d) Unjust to the workingman. - (1) Takes away their rest day: Our Day, IX, 696. - (2) Against their own desire: Ibid; Crafts, Civil Sabbath, 29, 42; Sabbath for Man, 654, 656; Pamphlet No. 1. - (3) Dangerous to their future rest day: Pamphlet No. 3, p. 2 - (4) Discommodes vastly more workingmen than it accommodates...
...Sunday closing wise and practicable. - (a) According to precedent: Independent. Dec. 17. 1891; Our Day, IX, 695. - (b) Maintains Sabbath laws which are essential to liberty: Pamphlet No. 2. - (c) Favorably affects foreigners: Pamphets Nos. 4, 5, 6; Our Day, IX, 696; Sabbath for Mac, 651 - (d) No economic objection. - (1) Receipts of Fair not decreased: Our Day, IX, 690, 692, 695. - (2) Peace and order better preserved: Our Day, IX, 697, 698; Sabbath...
...Partial opening of Fair equally undesirable. - (a) Same reasons apply as against complete opening. - (b) Intended for finance not for the workingmen: Advance, Nov. 17, 1892. - (c) The quiet Sabbath scheme Utopian and impracticable: Our Day, IX, 698 - (d) Religious services more conveniently held in the city free of charge: Our Day, IX, 698 - (e) Entering wedge to complete Sunday opening...