| Show THE SABO ATARIAN AND WAYS by S E KISER near edgerton wis als there la Is a community of seventh day baptista or Sabbat arians as they call them selves among whom boin there are a good many men and women who continue to cling to the stern belief of the an dent clent anabaptists with these peo tie the sabbath betins begins at the moment the upper eddu of the sinks sun e disk dis appears beyond the western hills bills on friday evening aiom that time until sunset on saturday Satu iday they heep their sabbath as strictly us as evel may remember the sabbath day to keep it holy Is al ai pai patently antly the rock upon which thir their cietto is founded and being lead tit at all times to provo prove by the dible bible itself that satin da Is the real sabbath that day Is given up to pious meditation aud enthusiastic worship of the llie religions loiis zeal of these people sometimes takes flims foi ms A good Sabba always aiwas it his duty to make as much noise its as be can on sunday poil laps for the purpose ot of proclaiming to the that his sabbath is oi 01 it may bo be to awake the devil and thus give him an to get afeei those christline Christ lins who according acco iding to his belief sin in conducting their devotional exercises on the firby instead of on oil tile tho seventh day of the week meek A stranger strang tr who Is spending its his list sundy in ill this community will mill be when be gets up in the morning to beat a distant boom such as is produced pi od need by the filing of a carman cannon la Is there a fort near berea lie he abets no replies his host used to be one at rort fort atkinson but there aint been any soldiers tor for 60 years I 1 guess presently Is another loud re port there must be some big quanloan near here sas the stranger A minute or two later a thaid ahot is bred nhat is that inquiries inqui ies the stran ger Is some ralli oad company blast ing out a cut the locks near here no them a blastic stumps stamps with mith dynamite they do that every sunday you 11 never hear orn cm blastic at any other tinte time stumps lq 19 gettin sort of scirce and they have to save cm am up for sundays whan A lien other peoples goin to chuich chinch it la is related of a good old sabba tarlan who owned a strip of ground near a church in which members of burt male wont mont to worship that he built a shed beside the edifice some years ago taking pains to work vork upon it only on sundays it was x as his habit to go to work just as the people in the little church were be ginning their exercises and zealously he would pound away making so much noise that according to his big hope and belief the ane loid laid might hear bear neither the preacher a set seimon mail nor the pi ayers that were offered ill ap by the con grega tion it is said bald that this pious man mail worked for two or three seasons on oil lull his hed ched taking a whole summer for the shingling alone ile he is dead now and who are us as strong in the faith as he be was are glad to believe that its his glory Is great in heaven for the service he ien tendered dered dealing sobriety sobi lety and high moral standards are noticeable among the Sabbat arians of sou thein biscon wiscon sin eln they have good farms which they industriously cultivate they raise fine stock and they have given useful men to their state and to the nation their numbers however are grad bially decreasing not that race suicide is to be charged against them but be cause cauce their children cannot be held within the prescribed bounds la Is sapping the ilife blood of the colony A man who has gained prominence as a lawber here in chicago and whose ancestors were among the Sabbat arians who came from the east ninny many cai eais a ago to set tie lie in the near 1 Kd dg gerton erton explains it thus in those these days of business activity and freedom of thought few men are arc willing to sacrifice what amounts tc mure more than one fourth of their time in the purpose of emphasizing a religious belief the Sabba tarlan cannot do business with other people on sunday and lie he will mill not have dealings with alt thern them on saturday ile he loses two days a m week eek and finds himself at a serious disadvantage when he goes out in the world illis may in a measure account for or the tact fact that no Sabba tarlan has ever grown very itch ilch and it certainly has a tendency to make the bons and daughters of seventh day baptists baptista giad willy drift away from what their fathers and mothers con the true belief occasionally even the finds it necessary to subject his conscience to severe hi aing on a recent friday afternoon blather di other juelson Ju elion m whose lose fat faim m nestles among the hills near lake lahe kos Kosho bolong nong found that it was going to he be i possible tor for him to g gt get t all of his oats cut before sun down the grain was dead felpe and to let it stand another day would meal a considerable loss espell especially illy if ha happened tn be a storm at al six alc c a 0 clock he was working marking as hard bard as he be could and urging his da hired men lien to do the their ar best finally about 15 minutes before sunset lie ho saw that it would be fin p 0 8 bible to finish woj k la the allott allotted od time and in pathetic tones he be cried out oh ob if it would only cloud up a lito tie itle so we me coulden couldn rit t see when the sun san went down we could finish the job jb alt without no haim abeln done chica go decoi d iberal I 1 |
