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Show u ENFORCED RELIGIONS OBSERVANCE. OB-SERVANCE. . Every community, one time or another an-other and sometimes frequently is subjected to "revival" spasms, the object being to make all hands and the cook as good as the revivalists (think they) are. In Salt Lake they take on all kinds of aspects opposition opposi-tion to dreaming about taking a drink on Sunday, forbidding pugilistic contests con-tests and so on. If the worthies who conduct these moral convulsions would only consider for a moment that most men are about half mule and will have what they mustn't have or bust, they (the convulsionlsts) might make more headway. Speaking of this subject, the Sacramento Sac-ramento Bee recently had n lengthy m article, ...wherein, .it washown that the peOp1eof that stafe" '"wilF not be slaves to the churches. They wjjl not 'tolerate interference' with the right of the Jew and the Seventh Day Adventist to' spend their Sunday as they may see fit, in decency' and pro- prict'y.' Nor will they permit one sei of Christians to dictate how another set' of Christians shall spend the first day of the week. All of this talk about a city going straight to hell if ii .tolerates baseball games on the first day of the week is the worst kind of rot. Just as good Christians go to public amusements of this character as stay away therefrom-just therefrom-just as acceptable in every way to Clu'st. There is 'nothing in'consist- ' . ent in a good Christian attending ' " church .on Sunday morning and a baseball game in the afternoon thereof. there-of. Some of the most magnificent and conscientious teachers of Christianity Chris-tianity the writer has known men both of the living and the dead men of true Christly .character themselves have taught this and have put it into practice with hundreds 'of boys." o |