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Show WHAT THE 'SINLESS SABBATH' 1 REFORMERS WOULD TABOO j I f soar black. . i Rn . IIAKRY L. BOWLBT. 1 By fJOKBX A. J mors N E . stuff Correspondent. NEW YORK Rev. Harry L. Bowl by, national secretary of the Lord's Do.) Alliance, who is directly a n:i-tlon-vvlde, movement for "Sinlcsji Jibbnths," outlined . for me today his Idea of 'an ideal Sunday." If hly plan was put into effect there would be but two things to do on Sunday go to church ami stay home. Mo would taboo movies, baseball, tennis, newspapers, balloon venders, Btoree, traveling, autO riding except j to church, theatres, bootblacks, j beachee, golf, concerts, delicatessens, resorts. i "1 would call un ideal Sabbath," sas Rev. Rowlby, "a duy on which all observe; 'Remember the Sabbath j day and keep It holy'-- a day on which people refrain from doinK all those things" that are so plainly In violation of tho .spirit of the day. whether of a commercial or uncommercial character. charac-ter. lUTs OMMKRI I VRIvM "Our object is to drive out what has become a continental Sunday anu to defend and preserve the American Christian Sabbath. 'we arc fully satisfied that the American Sabbath includes works of mercy and necessity, but that many are construing the Sabbath on such liberal terms as to change its name and Ideals into a holiday and a business busi-ness duy. j 'By far the greater evil, as we see it, comes through great and well fin-anced fin-anced commercial corporations such t ns the motion picture lndustrj anil H professional baseball leagues. M.i.D puritan srnuT.'- I mm "Puritarw and Pilgrims observed tin Sabbath more strictly than It has 'MWM been observed at any time In the .H United States within the Inst 50 years WWa and the need of the hour is to put more of the puritan spirit in'.o ui MM American Sunday" The lot of the reformer Is hard." says Rev, Dowlby In order to make others observe the Sabbath, we must have publicity and everyone is trying L. 1 to keep us from getting p." M r'S VI. 1 M N LEAGUERS. Among the retormen who arc mem-bera mem-bera ot tho international reform bp-ri bp-ri iu fighting :l "Sinless Sun- da) ' are: ll Wayne B. Wheeler, chief counsel llLH to the Anti-Saloon league, who will jH ii the International reform bu- WM ti in conferenct In Washington th- mm I week of December 8-10, when the pending Sunday "blue law" bill for JH ,the Distric t of Columbia will be cou- , O sider. d and probably urged upon other states, jjjH The Rev. E. C. Dinwiddle, legts-: legts-: latlve superintendent of the Ant.l-Silooii Ant.l-Silooii league, who s.ivs the District of Columbia Sunday bill in but an entering wedge for the adoption of a ' federal constitutional amendment en- H forcing nation-wide Sabbath observ-: observ-: ance. Ho has opened offices in Wash-I Wash-I Ington. in the national Sunday observ-anCS observ-anCS campaign. |