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Show BUS DAY. If God had never issued the command, com-mand, "Remember the Sabb.uh day to keep it holy," an imperative law of nature would have compelled men to hold tbo seventh day as one of rest. There is an absolute necessity in the human physical constitution saying nothing of moral or religious requirement. for the observance of Sunday in tha manner that Christianity Christi-anity tella us that we should observe it. The Savior said, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbatb," and never was a greater truth uttorcd. The hi.tory of man in all ages and countries has taught this great law of God and nature, that the Sabbath cannot be ignored with impunity. Wherever wickedness wicked-ness and infidelity have interfered to set aside the command of the Supreme Being, and abolish the day of rest, the law of nature baa asserted itself and demanded its restoration. In their lack of wisdom, and want of knowledge of the human constitution and its needs, the French, during the reign uf terror, declared that all days were alike, there being no day for rest and none for worship; tut they soon found that the new order could not exist. Commerce even, refused to move unceasingly, and man was not long in discovering tht he was breaking a law which carried its own penalty with it. The consequence was the restoration ofthe Sabbatb. In our own time and land we have seen how they fail who refuse to obey this important law of God. In the early daysofCaf-ifornia, daysofCaf-ifornia, when the heterogeneous population pop-ulation which had rushed thither in eager pursuit of the hidden treasures of the new Eldorado, found, at first, no time for rest, (they have not yet found much time for worship,) it was not long before they saw the necessity of making a Sabbatb, and setting apart one day of the seven lor rest. Forty-niners will tell you that where a number of men would work side by side in the placers, those who stopped every seventh day and rested accomplished more during the month than tbof wii rc3aida ti of nature ad command of Gad. This has also been observed, in all of the mining camps of the coast, though to the credit of the hardy miners, be it said, few of them have long persisted in working on the Sunday. In these days of steam and lightning, light-ning, of telephones and phonographs, of rapid transit and electric light, when the world is going pell mell, helter skelter, hurry skurry, with a rush, and a hurrah, every man seeing how great advantage he can take ol his neighbor and afraid that be will get left in the scramble for wealth and power, some men Beem to be forgetting, forget-ting, not only the laws of God and the land, but the requirements of health and the damanda of their own physical natures. In many departments of the world' enterprises enter-prises and industries, no Sabbath is known and no day of rest ever comes to the tired employ... The wheels never cease their revolution, the machinery never stops its motion, the great heart of business aod labor never varie. in its pulaation., but through day and night, summer and winter, heat and. cold, seed time and harvest, the work goes on and the laborers ply tlioir toils in the midst of fainting heart and failing brain and weakened muscles. It is this ceaee- Jess loA which causes bo many early deaths, eo many prematurely aged men aid women, which fills our hospitals and insane asylums, and peoples our cemeteries. The man who kills himself by overwork is just as much a suicide as he who blows out his brains with a pistol, and tbe employer em-ployer who forces his hireling to the grave, through overtaxing h is Btrength, murders him aa surely as though he had Btabbed bim to the heart with .a knife. We know there are Borne things which must ba done on Sunday, aa well as on other days, but there is a great de.il of Sunday work which is very far from being a work of necessity; and this work that is not a necessity should be stopped, whether in tbe mine, the mill, tbe factory, on the railroad, or elsewhere. The managers and directors of industry should not forget that "the Sabbath was mado for man," and also remember that this is another divine comnund: "Six days Bha!t thou labor, aud do all thy work: But tha seventh dny is the Sabbath Of tbe Lor.l tUy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor t.iy daunhtor, thy man-servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gat;.." |