Show sunday question discussed the home sunday question is ia certainly an important one and should be disposed of before we announce ourselves prepared to help chicago people settle their sunday controversy from thirty to forty boys some of them sons of our most religious 0 members of society can call at times lo 10 10 counted on the playground on a sunday afternoon playing ball and as ull all work and no play will make an old man of a young 0 boy it a great many orthodox religionists 0 justify beai em in so doing so we can caa see the question is an important one if boys work hard six lays days each week they may possibly need or think they need more recreation than they jet get attending sunday school and meeting and on this point hangs bangs 42 all the importance of the question to be decided some of our church officers as high in office a bishop justify young 0 folks in laying games on sunday this that the question has grown nto into enough c significance to require our deep and earnest consideration what appears to me the most reasonable plan to adopt is to arrange the work so that the boys can have either all or at least halt half of saturday afternoon for amusement some parents may think they cannot afford to adopt this plan but I 1 believe the boys will work enough bater during the five and one half days clays to make up for or the lost time if it is 13 called lost it if sacrifice brings blessings it will certainly be a blessing to see sec sunday players change channye to sunday worshipers sad and it wi will 11 certainly pay to try tho the experiment peri ment if all the towns of utah ure honoring the sabbath day clay similar to the way it is 13 observed in davis county we have an all important sunday ques ion to deal with much nearer home than chicago at one of our stake conferences time ago acro I 1 counted thirty two f j boys playing games grames just outside of the meeting meetinghouse house during one of the sunday meetings if they were out of the meeting for the same reason that I 1 was ou on account of the house being filled with people and the windows and doors all shut up nearly air tight I 1 believe they were dolg doing less harm barm to their spiritual and physical organizations outside playing marbles than the same would be benefited benc fitted in the hot furnace of a room inside I 1 might quote something about good spirits not remaining in unholy or foul aired tabernacles but for fearon fear of being called an extremist and as this is not a ventilation an subject I 1 wi will 11 only add that the latter subject is now so little understood that whole families will live or try to live in houses shut up so near nea r tir mr tight light during sleeping hours tl that at I 1 the lie weaker members of such families ire arc engendering disease and weaknesses that will impair their health ind and usefulness to an incalculable ex tent lent during their shortened lives and all through negligence in not 8 studying a few simple lessons on the laws of health I 1 hope some one will give us an article on the subject above mentioned about high church members being parent of infidel children I 1 will give one reason that may account f forat least some f few deiv cases and t that at is pure or impure sc lushness parents who fancy that a dollar looks as large as a wagon wheel and who think it will do them so much more good than a person who has it in his is and in an inordinate haste to get it will sacrifice honor and anything they fin fancy byis is immediately in the way of their getting it such parents are apt to be rewarded with much of what they will some time in the future with aching hearts admit was filthy lucre when they can f fully ally compare its worth to the evil effects it produced on their offspring sunday is supposed to be a day of rest but the sunday question does not seem to get much rest lately the worlds fair sunday closing con is being agitated in a very thorough manner and chicago people are manifesta manifesting 0 a great dislike to honor that day at the exposition I 1 although they have been paid several millions of dollars by congress as an inducement to persuade them to so respect it the trades and labor assembly of that city by a vote of declined to participate in the worlds fair dedication ceremonies on account of the sunday closing clause one reason they gave was that sunday is the only day for the artisan and laborer to take his family to see the show without losing time and money A few ideas suggested by reading the determination of the chicago workmen may be of some interest to your readers A christian country is what the vast majority of our citizens as yet claim weare entitled to be termed and as moral religious christians are supposed to revere the great command remember the sabbath day and keep it holy it should certainly shock the sensibility of all thinking and sincerely sincere religious ous persons to find that the majority of our count rys inhabitants were inclined to cast aside the traditional sentiment ment of our ancestors in honoring the lords day as a day of rest of pray prayer er and a day to be devoted to religious rites and services many people do not object to whisky saloons being open on the sabbath and great ball games horse borse race s etc are at patronized by thousands on that day and a gen gell eral cral careless and indifferent spirit seems to be manifested everywhere in regard to disobeying the great commandment if the laborers of chicago cannot afford to lose time and mone money y to attend the fair on weekdays it would certainly be inconsistent in them to think that their fellow workmen lien from other localities could spare the much greater expense of going 0 to their city not counting the time consumed visiting the fair the truth is it is only manifesting a growing sentiment of disrespect for the sabbath and sacred things in general what is the cause of all this A few reasons carbe can be briefly given Oar 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