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"THE SUNDAY plea i ox*tb.e Preses . Charleston News and ?The Sunday s Necessity" was the* theme yesterday of the disaoixrse o?| the Revi J.. Keir Cr. Fraser, pastor of the seoond Presbyterian t Church. A' large congregation gave ntteutivo heed to the words of the doquent divine.' The text was taken fj*am Isaiah 1 viii : 1314. Dr. Fraser said : Why am I under obligation to ob serve one day in seven as a day of rest? It will not do in answer to this question to say that the Fou'/th Com mandaient requires the observance of such a day, beoause the question still presseB, why does tho Fourth Com mandment require it? The law whioh eays "Thou Built not steal" does not ?ad its ethical obligation in the fact that it is written io the Decalogue. It waa wrong to steal before there was any [Decalogue. ' would be wrong to steal today' even had ?that Decalogue never been written. Steal ing is wrong in itself, eternally wrong, aid because it is wrong that Decalo gue forbids it, and were it not wrong the placing it in the Decalogue would not make it wrong. The same' is true of every one bf the Ten Command ments. These. Commandments sim ply enunciate great moral laws and moral laws are binding always and everywhere. You cannot get away . from them any more than you oan get away from tho movements of the tides or the sweep of tho etars. The dis ! tiaotion between right and wrong is absolute and eternal and no. power on earth or in Heaven can mako it other wise. Now this Commandment whioh. Says to you and me "Remember the Sab bath, observe one day in seven as a rest day," takes its place among these moral laws. It is "binding, not be cause it happens to be found written jo the old Jewish Peoalogne, "put be-j ' e?useltis Inherently right) beoause there is some reason j why we ought to observe a Sabbath; some reason why it is wrong not to observe a Sabbath? What is this reason, I ask? What is the real basis of a Sunday observance? This is a question which every intel ligent man, churchman and non churchman, ought to ask and truth fully strive to answer. It is fortunate for ns, I think, that oar Lord was compelled to pen this question in his day, fortunate that the basiB of the Sabbath law was mis understood by those of his days. The Jews plaeed that basis in the Fourth Commandment ia the mere outward letter of tho Decalogue. Jesus pf aced it in the necessities of man, the needs of human nature. "The Sabbath," he said, "waa made for man," and made for him beeauoe he needs it for his proper development aa man. You seo the difference, do you not? Tho Jews said the Sabbath WSB written in the Book of the Law. Jesus said it was written in man's nature. He. raised that 'institution from a mere Jewish ordinance to a human necessi ty and claimed that the ultimate au thority for its observance was not Moses, but man, not the Decalogue, but nature. This is important teach ing for us to keep in mind today when men are talking about the abrogation of the Sabbath law. The abrogation of the Sabbath 1 It will be time enough to talk about that when you begin to talk about tho abrogation Of the law which says to man, "in order to ?ve you must eat and drink and breathe.' ' If ever tho tim? eomCB when ' a man may dispense with food and water and oxygen, then he may no longer need a Sabbath. But BO h>ng ae he contin ues to bo man the Sabbath will con tinue to be a nc?osaity of his nature. The Sabbath asa Jewish ordinance may have been temporary and shado wy, but tho Sabbath as a necessity, on the other hand, is human, and, therefore, as suoh universal and abid ing. It will never bo abrogated, aye can never be abro. ated, simply be cause man's nature can never be abro gated. Thia much, then, is clear to every, thinking person. And it settles once and forever tho question of the basis of the observance oi a root day. But to push the question back an other stcp-rwhy does a man nooda rest day? - What aro tho necessities cf his nature'which obligate him to the observance of suoh a day? Thcso necessities ?re two fold. \.1. His physical nature makcB rn cesary a rear, day. Tho very preser vation of tho State hinges on the ob servaneo of the Sabbath. It is a law written away down deep in nature that tho nation which disregards tho' Fourth Commandment must perish. This is not cant; it is hot ^ietistio pulpit talk; it is sober reality. . A re?t day ia a physical necessity. Even the beasts of burdeu exemplify this necessity, because if you work ahorse to the full ?vt?nr. r>? Kia p??er for Iseven ?AJ?; a v,'eek . iasiekd' 'er. ni*., h A. will qnickly break down under the strain. Even machinery, I am told, rvatiosi of th.e Sabbath ay. Courier, Jeno 15th. requires a Sabbath day in order to re arrange ?to di Storied pHir????ea. But men are not Machines, and; ail tho more do they need a rost day. I re*, oently consulted a.great cyclopaedia of social reform, a work which never touobes religious questions at all, and I saw the statement written ?hero that economically the Sunday is a necessi ty, and ia Huppert of this position it gave the interesting fact that if a ma* eon or carpenter takes a contraot in Parla he gets tho work dono quioVer, cheaper and better by employing Eng lish labor, because English persons work six day a, w?ii'e Frenoh workmen work soven days in tneweek. One of tho busiest public men pf tho last cen tury-ibo late Mr. Gladstone-said id a very remarkable letter, which ap peared some years ago in tho presa, that he bad always kept, the day of rest as scrupulously as possible. "And now," he added, "at the end of a laborious public career of nearly fifty-seven years I attribute in great part; to that causo tho prolongation of my life and the preservation of tho faculties I may still possess." And listen to tho testimony pf Lord Ma oauley to the economic value of the Sunday: "While industry is suspend ed, while the plough, lies in the-fur row, while the esohange is silent, Trhilu no.smoke ascends from the fac tory, a process is going en quito as important to the wealth of the nation as any process whioh is performed on more busy days. Man, the maohioe of machinery, is repairing and wind ing up, so that he returns to his labor on Monday with dearer ?nOelluot,with livelier spirit?, with renewed corpore al vigor." And so, my friends, you see something of thsjrvalue of the Sum day viewed simply as a physinal bene fit. It would be impossible, I think, to over-estimate that value. Apart altogether from its religious benefits tho observance of the Sunday length ens lifo, ttnpfoves work, increaees hap piness and on riehen the home, whioh) after all, is the ultimate spring of ma terial welfare. Upon every loyal oiti sen, then, (and I am not "asking you whether he be a member of the churoh or not,) upon every lover of mankind there ?evolves the solemn obligation of throwing the whole weight of his influence in favor of the preservation ru the Sunday as a rest day. Tho man who will not do this, but ?ho, from greed of gain, will turn his rest day into a work day is a traitor to his race. And the corporation which, from greed of gain, will compel whole multitudes of employees to work on thia doy of rest is a traitor. I caro not who the men be who compose it, they are helping to un<?ormino the yery pillar of our national security, and I unhesitatingly place them among our country's enemies. Unless there conies a stiffening' of the public con science in this respect we are going to lose our Sunday as a rest day. This it tho danger which threatens us at the preuent time--not that we shall loso it as a irj of spiritual opportuni ty merely, but that we shall lose it as a rest day. I Baw the statement made on the authority of one who knew that iu the city-and county-of London, England, there are half \a million of people employed on Sundays in con nection with public amusements alone. Add to ?hese the army pf railway workmen and the like, . most of whom are practically the slaves bf employ ers, and you will see the necessity there is for every patriotic, loyal oiti sen of this great country to come tc tho d?fonce of those, whose needed rest day is being quietly filched away. I am well aware that in this compli cated social lifo of oura, and especial ly in crowded cities, there mu?t neces sarily bo exceptions, but these ought to be reduced to a minimum, while ?Lose who aro compelled to work on Sunday ought to be given a day for rest during the week. The question us to what constitutes tho proper ob I service of thc Sabbath may boa ? difficult ono to answer, but this much is clear-we .muai observe it as a day of rest from worldly toil and wo mast do our utmost to secure to others the privilege of a rest day. In our own homes and business we must lesson toil as fer us possible. We must by our example discourage all. forms of. ji&seoration of the d*y, suoh as Snn day excursions, beoausc these mean work on the part of multitudes of people, and when you and I partici pate in them We he|p to rob these workmen of *,he day which thc Creator has given them for physical rest. And we must encourage those who control national and municipal affairs to put. down all needless labor and to guarantee to every individual tho free dom of a rest day. Hero mon of all orOedu aim ox no creed may stand co a ;e?s5ss?s:'p?stwna ; nuu unite in pro toottng. the Sunday cn the broad ground of the publio wolfarc. (2) The Sabbath waa mada for mao because he needs it for thc cultivation of Lis spiritual nature. To base the I obligation of Sabbath observance aim j ply on man's need of bodily rest is place man on a lovel with the brute creaton. Maa is over and above everything else a spiritual being and unless ha develops spiritually bo fails to develop along the lines of true manhood. He has a seal, he has been built for communion with God, and unless he finds God ho misses thc "very purpose of his cr?ation. Now the Sabbath is the soul's groat oppor tunity. It has. been given to ns by Ohe Greater with a speoial view to our religious cultivation. It is true that religion is intended to go through tho whole week, to enter into; every duty end every, pastime, but wo all know how scculi? ic-ugu drive religion into a corner abd how the soul oleaves to tho dust. But the Sabbath gives the religious nature its opportunity. Tho Cossadon from toil, the preaching of ?be Gospel, the, atmosphere of peace, the Affluence cf united worship, ali tend to call out the religious nature and ecoourage it to revel In its native element. My friends, this is a serious quos tiou. Tho loss of the Sabbath me*nS infinitely more than the loss of a phy sical re ct day. It m can o the dethrone* ment of God and the lois of .the spiri tual nature. The words of tho Great Ironer may well come home to us ?ere with startling force. "What shall it profit-a man if .he gains the ?Whole world and lose his soul?" And uo mau, let it ever be remembered, 'nan save his soul and at the sanie time deliberately violate the Fourth Commandment. He must have . sea* son for prayer and meditation and worship or he will have atrophy on tho spiritual side of his nature. Just aa the body will weaken if yon have no regular meals, so your soul will loso its vitality if you neglect set oppor tunities for communion with God. No man san be true to himself who neglects the cultivation of his spiri tual nature. Our very lifo is rooted in God and true living consists in re cognizing this. And for this wo need the Sabbath. It is a necessity of oui spiritual nature. A recognition ol this great truth is of speoial impor< tance at a time like this? when tuant are seeking for the maximum of pleas ure and tho- minimum 'of worship The tendency of the times is unques tionably to transform Sunday from i "holy day" to a "holiday;" toemplo] it as far as possible in amusement ant self-indulgence. In macy parrs o the oonniry the golf links are simpl; orowded with players, and boys wh< ought to be in Sunday sohool ar clamoring for employment. Sooiet; functions are multiplying fast. Chea excursion trains, with their weir and excitement, demoralizes for th morrows work thousands whose onl emjoyment seems to consist not i gating on nature, bit Jin eating an drinking-especially drinking. Thi enjoyment of what is merely physic! at the sacrifice of all that is spir tuai i B ominous, for it threatens tl degradation of the people and, ii volves ultimately the abolition bf Bui day ss ? period of quiet rest and season for spiritual communion. 1 the face of this the duty of evei right-thinking f?sn is surely clear. And now, before closing, 1 mn speak very plainly on another pha of this question, vis., the right of tl State to legislate on the Sunday. Ai here I may say that. I believe that tl improvement of the Sabbath must 1 sought through the improvement man rather than the improvement man through the improvement of t Sabbath. Let men be taught th< true dignity , as spiritual beings a they will welcome the Sabbath aa great physioal and spiritual boc Questions of Sunday observance v> then settle themselves. And yet t State has a duty to perform here, man needs the Sabbath then tho Sti is under moral obligations to pro ti the Sabbath for the same reason tl it is under moral obligations to p toot every, other institution which essential to the citizen's developrae Of course the State must not en Sunday legislation on strictly religh grounds except in the sense that i is bound to guarantee to every n freedom of worship and rest to. en that freedom. This is as far as State can go in the matter of Sum legislation on religious grounds, f oannot legislate her citizens into iog religious worshippers. To do I would be to invade the empire of c science, and when the State does I ehe transgresses her rightful lim Law has nothing whatever to do v religions worship. Moreover, to force religion is to destroy relier (Jod will have no homage whiol j merely outward and enforced, and moment you ranko a government! ) I tcot our religious principles yon our religious liberties of all theil ligiouB power. And so the State i not and must not pass Sunday legi tion on religious grounds, but sin and solely on economic and sc grounds. That all snob . legisla muet bo mado on thia principh necessary not only in-order to ac tho clay of rest, but still more in o ta secare the interest of religion cAnio, as I have said, any relig principio enforced by government sad coming with the forco of coercion seises io bo religion; The State's duty is performed when she hrs guar anteed her oituens the day to worship God according to tho diotates of their own conscience. But this she is un* 1er obliquons tc do. On tho broad ground of the public welfare she must protect the Sunday as a rest day. Now all this is important because it ?Wes us the ground on which we are to profs for Sunday legislation today. That ground is not tho* repetition of weeds and commandment*, but it is nan's need. We must bring our law makers to sea that as a mere condi tion of national health, as a condition )f economical effioiouoy, they are not >nly justified,, but compelled, to pro tact- tho Sunday a?, a day nf rest. Leg .elation ought to go much further than t does, lt ought to protect the com munity as a whole from the greed, of individuals and the greed of great corporations. And it ought to pro tect it from tho pleasure-seeking of chose who are constantly imperilling the day of rest for largo masses of the people. No ; man or no body of men has any right to rob God's ohil Iren of the doy that He has given them for rest and worship, and the law should lay its strong arm on these people and tell them so. . On purely utilitarian grounds, simply seeking the greatest happiness of the greatest cumber, our Legislature should re press the eccentrioitioa of individuals. They should simply not allow people bo disturb what ia a publio blessing. [ am speaking emphatically and some what at. longtli hero, because in a iemooratic country like this it is you ?nd I who have to do with the making of the laws. No government or, no body of legislators can withstand tho force of publio opinion, and what we need right here in this community is ? toning up of publio opinion on this question. I trust that our study of this ques tion this morning may help us all to realise anew something of the tremend ous value of the Sabbath to the indi vidual, the nation and tho race, and that it may lead us to give the whole weight of our personal influence to the work of preserving it. Let us pray that amid all changes this day may remain both as a day of rest and worship; that on land and sea, in the borne land and in far-off settlements, luiet may continue to oomo over the strivings of the %eek, and that prayer and praise may evermore ascend to Sod, who is near us all and loves us ill; ' ma ? - Identified. -- ? ' His mother was giving a musicale ind he had been put to bod even ear* liar than usual. The indignity rank led in his infantile breast. He was very fond of music, and besides he wanted to see all the people who were down in the parlor. He tossed and tumbled about in his bed and tried all the espediente to fall asleep, but it was useless. Finally he oould stand it no longer and he got out of bed. A bottle of violet extract on his. moth er's dressing'table caught his eye. This he addi above his head and al lowe^tho content's to trickle all over his small body. When the bottle was empty he crept stealthily down the stairs, revelling in the delights of the perfume. There was a lull in the mUsio aa he concealed himself behind a curtain, and the guests were start led a moment later when a shrill, pip ing little voice oame from the dimin utive bundle of soented pajamas, "If you smell anything, it's me!"-Phil adelphia Record. - ? f i.-. Rejected JLovers Unite. Derby, Conn., Juno 10.-Success ive disappointments have prompted well-known young men of this city to form an organization known as the Rejected Lovers' Association.. ?A meeting held for the purpose of effecting organisation was attended by nearly a Boore of swains who had been the viotims of unrequited affec tion, but, as it was voted that no one should belong to the association un less ho had been rejected at least twice, only ten were admitted to mem bership. In taking the obligation of membership ?ach had to relate the story of his unsuccessful courtship and tell why;, in his opinion, he had been rejeoted. Two members had been refused three times, and one told his experiences in getting the mitten from five young women within four years. Tho by-laws of the association pro vide that' no member shall keep com pany with any one of the opposite sex or talk with her more than five minutes at a time, except in the case of an immediate relative. The pen alty for marrying, or. even proposing, is expulsion from the association. -Baltimore Sun. ' xi m m _ To Care a Cold la One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AU druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grovo's signa ture is oti oaoh box. Price 25o. f - - . tm -- .~- By adding together th? total as BA** of insurance companies as print ed in .their folders a maa can form some idea of thc money there is in tho world. Under Shadow of Friday. A diepatch from Athens, Ga., to the Atlanta Constitution, sayo: Col onel Charles S. Webb, who 1 as just returned home from Gainesville, where he has been for the psst week assisting in the work of oaring for the sufferers from the recent tornado, tolls a very interesting story connect ed with Vietor Montgomery, the own-1 er o! the mills that suffered in the I Gainesville tornado and also the cws- { er of the. Paoolet mills that were de stroyed by the flood in South Carolina last Friday night. Mr. Montgomery was talking to I Col. Webb last Tuesday night in Gainesville about the disaster that I had como upon his property thorn, und remarked that he had almost reaohed the conclusion that there was I something in tho superstition about beginning things on Friday. Mr. Montgomery said that when ho went to Gainesville to look for a site for tho mill he proposed to establish I th?re it was on Friday. He went I bank to South Carolina and reported to his board of directors and thoy met j on Friday. When he oamo back to Gainesville and laid off the ground I upon whioh the buildings were to bo constructed it was on Friday. Whou the actual work of beginning tho con-} struotion the mill building was started I it was Friday and he remarked to the superintendent of construction that there was a superstition about begin Ding work on Friday. The superin tondent laughed and said that rr- was born on Friday and thc 13th of the month at that. Over a year ago an 1 acoident happened to Mr. Montgom-1 ery's father on Friday in whioh he lost his life. So Mr. Montgomery j told Col. Webb that if the tornado I had come oome on Friday be would I not have been surprised.. He went on home to Spartanburg and on last Friday night the great rain Btorm fell I and swept away his entire fortune in tho wreck and ruin of the Paoolet mills. I While there is nothing io the su-1 persition about the bad luok attend- j ant upon beginning things on Friday, it will no doubt take a heap of faith and common sense to keep Mr. Mont gomery from unconsciously thinking that there is for him something fateful in that day of tho week. THE INVALIDS' HOTEL. The Id? al Modern Hospital. It is generally the case that when some great modern improvement of old methods of business is put forward, the world says, "How simple 1 Why didn't somebody think of it before ?" When j ou read of an "Invalids* Ho tel" as the modern hospital ideal, the thought at once comes, "What a great improvement. Why didn't somebody think of it before 1 ' Tho Invalids, Hotel and Surgioal In stitute of Buffalo, N. Y., the unique 1 model of medioal and surgical progress, i owes its existence to its founder, Dr. I R. V. Pierce, and the rare combina tion of business aoumen and profes sional ability whioh he possesses in a marked degree. Most people dread the thought of the ordinary hospital, however beneficent th? institution may be. In the popular mind the hos* pi tal is next to a prison; a place whore identity is lost, and a man or woman becomes merely a "case" for the ex periments of dootors or surgeons. With his experience the thought oc curred to Dr. Pieroe, why not put the hospital ou a hotel basis? Why not let the patient preserve his individu ality and-identity, and lead an exis tence as independent and free as tho oondition of invalidism will allow ? And so was born and built the "Inva lids' Hotel," whose waiters aro white robed men and, white-oapped women nurses. Here are. no great dreary wards, echoing with the moaning of the sick, but separate rooms, as in an ordinary hotel, with extraordinary ho tel service, tbe servante being skilled ?bysioians and nurses. The Invalids' Lotel and Surgioal Instituto is provi ded with every modern appliance for the electrical and mechanical treat ment of disease. Nearly a score of physicians (each man a specialist in his department) are in constant atten dance on the inmates. Everything that can conduce to comfort and home likeness is provided by Dr. Pierce for his guests, and the sights and sounds and smells of the public hospital are entirely avoided. Undoubtedly Dr. Pierce's Invalids* Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y., is the ideal modern hospital. - You can always get satisfaction by going to law-if you are a lawyer. Notice to Creditors. 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