Show OBSERVING SACRED DAYS there are perversions of law and order which not only escape the inflict tlona in such case made and provided but are encouraged and upheld by those whose moral if not legal duty it should be to frown down if they cannot suppress all violations of sunday laws and ordinances ohlin ances belong in this category cafego ry but it was not the design to speak distinctively ively of them they have become so common that denunciation or even mild criticism would be looked upon as an ak altogether together old piece of work there are two other days in the year to which some degree of sacredness should attach aad be recognized if not observed these are decoration and thanksgiving days one set apart as an oc occasion caslon for remembering the dead who perished that the union might survive the other a time designated by the head of the government and reiterated by the heads of the stat states tes in which the people without distinction of party or creed are called upon to give ed gement and praise to the author of the blessings bestowed upon us this is the most thoroughly civilized and enlightened nation in the world the basis of its wonderful growth and development has been spiritual tuan reliance with physical effort both intelligently li directed and persistently maintained fied while it is by no indans means a nation wholly consecrated to christianity while the fact is that there is an element who affect to or in reality have no belief in a supreme being or a continuous state of existence it still remains that this class achieve their principal prominence by reason of not being very numerous and paradoxical as aa lt it may kept in the background grou ild certain it is that none of them has ever attained to the presidency of the united states and very few are ever chosen chief magistrates of states or cities the reason for this is that deep down in the hearts of the great majority of the american people there to Is a distrust of those who repudiate the great first cause and make mockery of those things which by reason of their origin and aad the he subject to which they relate are invested invented with more or less leas of sacredness redness and the do not care to have such auch men as political rulers or chiefs we then find a religious sentiment pervading the masses and christianity in one or another of its forms being the cl cornerstone corner orner stone of the great national al fabric this Is manifested variously but in no way more strikingly than in the he setting set tang apart of the days spoken of and the unanimity with they are observed everywhere throughout the land it Is not peculiar to any place but in almost every part olf of this free country that the perversions above spoken of ct cilo crof pout wet these are due to those who we are the disbelievers spoken of and the unwillingness of the other class to som to be oppressive or bigoted find and who prefer on all occasions tons to extend to bo adl the rights of freie free agenor agency Z N and unrestricted action it does doea not follow however that so no much tn jn the way of actual approval of improper deportment should as afi to is the mae wr nor does necessity follow that all should seel seek L place of in order to escape censure af though such servance oer vance for a reasonable time would ot ot only be altogether commendable fx from pm la ia religiously social standpoint but in with the rescom M mendt loii of the president and the sis well it to Is the other ex me of cond conduct condret det being practiced that fone tile the called forth those who do not care caire to to an address or hear singing beal befitting ati ng the day can at least leas t refrain from excessive and harmful indulgences to be followed by boisterous and unseemly they in fact owe it to those who own as much of the streets and other olther public places as they themselves do to let serenity prevail therein and not take advantage of the tolerance shown to make the time hideous memorial day is seldom an exemplification fi of its name and purpose it if at all except to a very few it ft is taken sd advantage vantage of by the pleasure loving element who constitute ta a visibly great majority of all who make any kind of observance whatever to fo be less than usual an occasion ocoa sion for turning ahe mind gratefully to of our countrymen who repose under the sod and the dew waiting the judg merit day it is not the cause of the holyday but the xi stence ce of a holiday that occupies the minds of those who make it a time for revelry riotous pastimes and unrestrained rea trained indulgence and being inappropriate band and ill timed on Deca decantation nation day clay such things are sinful perversions of thanksgiving day it is as stated a recognized thing ahalt each engage in his hie own preferred manner of observance but no one has a right to carry such privilege to the point of being obnoxious to others in plain terms a certain degree of propriety should be enforced where it is not voluntarily iced |