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THE FUTURE S? JA j;.: l
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE VICTORY FOn
THE DAY AT THE FAIR.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., Continues Bis
New Series of Sermons on "The Proph?
ecies of the World's Fair"-Man Needs
Even Mere Hoars For Best.
NEW YOEE, NOV. 12.-Rev. Thomas
Pixon, jr., continued in Association
hall this morning the new series of ser?
mons on * * The Prophecies of the World's
Fair." The subject of the discourse
today he called "The Future cf the
American Sabbath, as indicated by the
Sunday Opening Fiasco." He declared
that the action of the fair authorities
on this question was the one fly in the
ointment of the great exposition. Their
thimble rigging policy he declared was
a disgrace which came near ruining
the fair at a critical period. The work?
ing people had repudiated the Sunday
opening when accomplished, and the
public refused to have it He declared
that this conflict which focused the
ttfftrmpal sentiment upon the problem for
the first time had demonstrated some
things pretty clearly-among them cer?
tainly that the great truth of the Chris?
tian Sabbath-one day Ts rest in se ven
has been re-emphasized as a. primal or?
dinance of humanity, to whose sanctity
ecclesiasticism can add nothing and
from whose glory infidelity can subtract
nothing.
The text chosen was from Mark ii, 27.
"The Sabbath was made forman."
Jesus Christ was not orthodox on the
Sabba th question. The heresy hunters
were continuously after him for his
failure to comply with the form of cer?
n? onial and institutional religion. With
special emphasis did the pharisees ac?
cuse him of breaking the Sabbath. And
they had good grounds for their charge
from the pharisaic point of view.
Upon this question as upon others he i
was a reformer. He was the bearer of j
a new light. He did not destroy. He |
fulfilled and expounded. He found a i
Sabbath buried beneath dead ceremoni
alism. He reaffirmed its original divine
parp?se. He broke the letter. He
kept the spirit. He lifted the day from
the degradation of pharisaic form and
made it radiant with the beauty and
freedom of love. As yet, in America, |
while as a nation we- have proved our
reverence and loyalty to the day, we
have not given the unbeliever the true
basis of our-faith. We have haggled
over the legalism of a Mosaic statute,
while we professed the fuller revela?
tion of the Christ. The chief source of
conflict upon this question is found in
this confusion.
THE QUESTION AT CHICAGO.
Grave were the fears of the faithful
what would be the outcome of a na?
tional, struggle on this question at
Chicago.
At this World's fair, for the first time
since the republic was founded, the
whole nation came together in one
place with one purpose, In the truest
sense of the word this fair was repre?
sentative. . Nearly 4,000,000 of peo?
ple, representing every state and district
of the continent, came to one spot, filled !
with the consciousness of a common
national pride in a common national j
life. The means and the extremes met. j
The blood of every nation of earth ?
mingles in our veins or yet floats un- j
observed upon the surface of our Ufe.
We are a composite people, with the ele- !
xnents of composition yet unassimilatcd j
in many states. The amalgam is not j
yet made. What we will be when it
is made does not yet appear.
Let us confess that with the reputa- j
tion of the west for recklessness on the ?
Sabbath we felt sad over the possible !
victory of the lawless element in this !
conflict, coming as it did and when it !
did. The verdict would necessarily be ?
national in its bearing. The way this |
. question was handled by the directorate j
of the fair forms the one serious blot j
upon its histor^. It is the one fly in j
the ointment of the greatest exposition j
the civilized world ever saw. Let us
try to remove this in the beginning of
our study.
The fact is, we have cause for con?
gratulation after all, for in the end '
God has taught the nation with a new
emphasis a great and solemn lesson. ?
The directors were, after all, fallible j
men, and in trying to increase their rev
enue at the expense of the nation's con?
science by opening on Sunday they col
lided with the nation's honor, and in ;
the hour of a possible peril brought
honor and decency to the rescue of a ,
poorly enlightened conscience. They
went before the nation assembled at !
Washington and asked for an appropri- j
arion. The Sunday question was sprung I
and brought to a finish in confess. |
The Sunday observers won an over
whelming victory, voicing the unques?
tioned sentiment of a vast majority of !
all the people. They accepted the ap- .
propriation and promised to close the :
fair on Sunday.
Then they lied and for the sake of j
money opened it.
They outraged the sense of honor and
decency of the nation.
The people would not have it-people
who knew little or cared little about
the question of opening or not opening .
on Sunday did *?are as to whether we
should exhibit ourselves as a nation of
liars and tricksters. The success of the :
exposition was seriously threatened.
And before the gathering storm of a
nation's contempt the managers re?
treated and closed their gates.
Then came the enemy and invoked
the magic jugglery of the law and the
personal equation of the judiciary.
Through the legal technicalities of a j
local law the gates were again forced
open and the managers thus relieved of I
the stain of voluntary dishonor. But j
the people did not go into the opened
gates. Sunday opening continued to
be to the last week a conspicuous fizzle.
The hue and cry raised by a certain
class in behalf of the workingmen
proved by actual demonstration to be a
fake pore and simple. The working*
men did not want the fair opened on
Sunday, and titoy did not go when it
was ?pened. The thimble rigging
i methods of the management on thi
question not only failed to deceive, bu
failed to give any advantage in the en<
to the performers. The managemen
have been taught a valuable Jesson
that fchere is such a thing as being tex
smart. In fact, after the fair they fin<
themselves on this question where i
very smart couple found themselve
after a parade in New York one day
as reported by one of the papers :
A man and woman found themselve
wedged in a crowd in oneof the streets
They had come out to see the parade
and as things were they could se<
nothing. The man had a bright idea
"When I give the word. Julia, yot
scream and faint."
Julia waited. Tho signal came, anc
I she flopped over into her escort's anns.
! "Give me air, ' ' she gasped.
"Air! air!" cried the man.
Tho crowd parted, and tho man anc
woman emerged at the front. Thc
woman revived, and the pair made readj
to enjoy the show.
j Just then, however, an ambulance
dashed up. Some one had turned in ?
signal.
"You can't be too -areful aboul
these cholera cases," said tho surgeon.
.Td better take you both along for in?
spection."
And they did net see the parade.
The wholn truth is, the course of thc
management in this fiasco and the bear?
ing of our people toward it at every
stage of development has made cleai
one thing-the nation has rendered a
verdict upon the Sabbath question that
must tell in shaping our future.
ONE DAY'S REST TN SEVEN.
In this conflict the people have re?
emphasized the truth of the Christian
Sabbath-namely, that one day's rest in
seven is not the invention of priestcraft,
but is the primal ordinance of human?
ity, to whose sanctity ecclesiasticism
can add nothing, from whose glory in?
fidelity can subtract nothing.
First, we say they have reaffirmed the
true basis of the Sabbath an ordinance
! primal of the human race. The people
have said, Moses or no Moses, command?
ment or no commandment, Bible or no
i Bible, right or wrong, orthodox or heter?
odox, whatever dogs and cats may l>e
able to do, as for man, tho Sabbath
with its rest is to him an absolute ne?
cessity of nature ! Such a necessity in?
deed that, if God did not establish a
Sabbath, he surely committed the crime
of creating a being who can not live
without one. And this is but a re
affirmation of the unvarying record of
history. France went mad with rage
once against ecclesiasticism. They
mistook thc Sabbath for an invention
of priestcraft to cheat them out of
day. They abolished it by law, only
to wake in a short timo from their de?
lusion to find that God had founded ti?*?
Sabbath in love for man and had writ?
ten it in the red blood ot nature's ott
nal decree. They found tho f aw of the
Sabbath written on their tired hands
and feet, in quivering muscle and throb?
bing nerves.
What any nation of the old world has
found a necessity for rest to tho hu?
man body is a double necessity to the
people of America. While the old
world travels one mile we rush ove
two. We are a nation of maniacs i
rush: and drive. "The pressure of Hf
with us is becoming more and more a
insanity. Of all the people Gal ha
created we should cherish the Sabbath
It is the one oasis in the desert of our f ev
erish host. It is our one remaining bul
wark against the greed of the century.
Our lust for gold is taking the hear,
out of the nation. The Sabbath is th
one pause in the mad rush. It is th\
one hour left when we may return to
reason for the moment-gain the con?
sciousness of our humanity. Every
effort we have made in our national li *
to drive through this day with thc
rush and roar of tho week has proveo
or is proving a failure. Men who are
forced to'work on Sundays never give
the best service. They break down
early. Their overwrought nerves and
muscles are the cause of many fatal ac?
cidents in which the nation pays life
for taking life.
NOT THE WORKINGMAN'S WISH.
Every attempt to break down the
rest of the Sabbath in the name bf the
Americar workingman is a subterfuge
and a lie. The workingman does not
desire to work seven days in the week.
The hue and cry set up in his name is
the thinly guised hypocrisy of greed
crying for the last possible tribute of
his muscle and his heart's blood. The
men who seek to break down the Sab?
bath as a day of complete rest are the
enemies of labor; their twaddle on the
subject is but the echo of some capital?
istic glutton behind the scene who
wishes to work them to the last drop of
blood in their veins. No class of work?
ingmen desire to work on Sunday. A
forjl editor of a weekly sheet in New
York tried to get up a sensation to sell
his paper some time ago by advocating
the opening of the theaters on Sunday, j
He wrote to all the managers of the
theaters and the leading actors and j
asked their views. And he got them.
But they were not what he had ex?
pected. To a man manager and actor
denounced the movement. And one ot'
the reasons brought forward against
it was the fact that Sunday opening in
the west had proved itself a curse. :
They declared that it made the life of
the actor well nigh impossible and did
not increase the revenue of the theater,
what they gained on Sunday being in?
variably lost on the first days of the
week, and the extra labor was so much
dead loss in the long run.
What we need to do for the working?
man is more and more to shorten his
hours of labor. The world is the gainer
by it, directly and indirectly. Thou?
sands of street car men are now forced
to work from 12 to 15 hours a day, and
some of them do not get a Sunday off
in a year. Such a system is the quin?
tessence of brutality.
The workingman is overworked now.
What he needs, what he demands and
what he will have is fewer hours of
work and more days of rest. Ever,
. attempt to rob him of the perfect rest cf
the Sabbath is a crime against human?
ity. Why tho great mass of working?
men have not spoken with louder em?
phasis upon this question is explained .
in part by that awful silence which
the heartless grind of toil so often
I brings.
j BRUTES BETTER TREATED THAN SIEN.
j We are kinder to dogs and horses
i than we are to one another. We give
I the horse the rest needed to prolong his
I life and give ns the best possible serv
I ice. We pile work on men nntil there
! is no heart power left to drive the tired
j muscle. The world is nm by heart
power, not horsepower, whether in man
' or beast. We forget this.
I Mr. Montagne Williams has given ns
a description lately of that pathetic si?
lence that hangs over this overwrought
world of muscle. He describes a cheer?
less room in London where a man and
his wife were working "for dear life*'
at their respective occupations, while
the youngest of the six children dozed
away the minutes in a corner and the
older ones were silently "helping fa
I ther. ' * ""The woman was making button.
j holes in a heap of waistcoats, and the
j husband bent over a bench, stitching
uppers to boots.
No one spoke, no one looked up even
for a glance from the window, and aft?
er standing some time in silence the
visitor ventured to address some cheer
: ful commonplace to the man. The
! latter, however, neither 6poke nor
moved an eyelash. The remark was
repeated, but still there was no an?
swer. Mr. Williams, believing the
j man to be deaf and dumb, turned an
inquiring look on the wife.
"What's the matter?" ho asked.
"Oh, " said she. "he's got no time to
talk. Every minute is precious to him.
All that lot of uppers has got to be fin?
ished by 10 tonight, and took back,
and then he'll bring me and the little
uns a bite of food. If he wastes even
five minutes to jaw, maybe he'll be too
late to deliver the work, and we'll have
nothing to eat afore tomorrow, unless
I take half o' my work back. " :
She spoke uncomplainingly, as if such
a state of things were quite to be ex?
pected. When her own sewing was
hurriedly finished she drew a quick
breath of relief, wrapped tho waist?
coats in a ragged bit of paper, slipped
an old shawl over her head and hastened
out, still in silence, to carry home her
work.
Did the wretched family ever have
time to speak? It almost seemed as
if dead silence were there the rule of
Ufe.
And in face of worldwide facts like
these there are men who write about
the workingman's desire to see the
wheels of this big world move round
seven days in seven, and pose as his
champion in every effort made to break
his Sabbath's rest.
Second-We do not hesitate to ac?
knowledge-and hasten to add that
we are glad of it-that in this con?
flict ecclesiastical tradition has failed
to make out a case. We have not got
a Sabbath because we have the Ten
Commandments. This commandment
is merely the first crude translation on
stone of the great law that had existed
from the eternities. Our Sunday does
not rest on the commandment letter of
the Jewish ritual. If so. we celebrate
the wrong day and utterly fail to fulfill
the letter of the law. The Sabbath of
the Mosaic ritual is our Saturday. No
man who knows anything about the
subject has ever disputed it. We do
not keep the Sabbath day because wc
are commanded in so many words *o
keep a specific day.
WHY WE KEEP THE SABBATH.
Wo keep the Sabbath day because it
is our privilege-a God given and
Christ given one-of resting one day
in seven. .'The Sabbath was made for
man," said Jesus. It was God's gift
of love to his tired children. The Sab?
batarian zealot who would restore the
formalism of a pharisee's Sabbath is
the enemy of Jesus Christ, for-he is the
follower of them who slew Lim.
Nor is the man who would restore
the gloom and the absurdity of the
early Puritanic Sabbath in this day any
less the enemy of true Christianity.
The life of our stern ancestors, while it
had elements of heroic strength, had
about its religion a narrowness, a big?
otry and a meaness that it were better to
forget than seek to perpetuate. Listen :
In a book in which Jonathan Trumbull
recorded the minor cases he tried as
justice of the peace is this entry : "His
Majesties Tithing man entered com- ;
plaint against Jona, and Susan Smith,
that on the Lord's day, during divine
service, they did smile." They were
found guilty, and each was fined 5 shil
tings and costs. But it was the "small
boy" whos. behavior in the meeting
house provoked the Puritan elders to
groan in chorus, "Foolishness is bound
in the heart of a child."
The boy behaved badly because he ,
was seated with other boys, instead of
with his fathe and mother in a family ?
pew. They were herded together on ?
the pulpit and gallery stairs, and tith- !
ingmen and constables were appointed ;
to watch over them "and see that they
behave themselves comelie and use ,
such raps and blows as meet. ' '
In ono parish it was ordered in town
meeting "that there bc some sticks set 1
up in various places in the meeting
house and fit persons by them and to
use them."
It is this spirit carried into the inter- j
pretation of Scripture that lias done so
much hurt to the cause of Christ, as it
has lingered as a strange discord in the
light and harmonies of modern life.
From Waterville college in 1838
graduated a young man whose mother
had designed him for the ministry.
But he refused to enter it. One of the
professors in Waterville, on a certain
occasion, delivered a sermon in the
chapel, in which he claimed that none
but the elect could be saved ; that of
professing Christians not more than one
tn a hundred could reach heaven, and
?hat heathen people would have more
consideration of tho Almighty in the
future life than men of Christian na?
tions who hear but do not profit by the
word of God. The rules of the college
made attendance upon religious serv- j
ices in the chapel compulsory. After
this sermon tho young man petitioned
to be excused from further attendance
on these services, giving as a reason
that, according to the proportion stated,
not above six persons in the college ?
could be saved, and as thero were nin<
worthy professors, all of whom wer<
doctors of divinity, it would be pre
sumption for him to hope for salvation
and therefore in attending church h<
was only making damnation the mor<
sure and terrible.
The name of that young man wai
Benjamin F. Butler.
Form and ritual and tradition an<
ceremony may be one thing and Chris
tianity another, as the following adver
tisement taken from a recent nunabei
of the St. James Gazette shows :
Church Preferment-A valuable living to.
sale in the suburbs of London. Sale urgent
Prospect of early possession. [Could it bo pu
more delicately?] Net income ?DG0. Ugh
work. The best society. Practically no poor
Beautiful modern church. Apply to-.
Hie party which appeals to fora:
and commandment and tradition hat
made a sorry showing in this morts
combat for the truth. But the truth ii
so divine a thing even its profess?e
friends can not slay it.
INFIDELITY BALKED.
Third-The fact begins to shine wit!
increasing brilliancy that from a Sab?
bath founded on a primal ordinance ol
humanity infidelity can subtract noth?
ing.
The Christian world without author?
ity of ritual or statute, moved by the
resistless impulse of the free love to?
ward Jesus Christ, changed the Sabbat!
from Saturday to Sunday and made il
the Lord's day-the day of his risen life
-their day of joy and hope and peace
of soul after the storm. This was thc
beginning of the reign of the spirit.
The letter had done its work. Tho
new era of freedom and love and grace
had como.
The Sabbath is an ordinance of law
-the divine law of nature. The reign
of law is the reign of God. Therefore
shall we remember the Sabbath day.
The revelation of nature is the last
work from God. You can not muffle
the Sabbath bells of the world, because
nature rings them.
The master musicians of tho world
are masters because their music throbs
with tho rythzn of nature's heart.
Their thought is ono with the eternal
incoming of life. Therefore they mas?
ter us. Their power never wanes.
Beethoven in a masterpiece reproduces
the trumpet calls of the battlefield and
the echoing cannon. Rossini gives us
a tempest, Wagner a storm with sigh?
ing wind, rushing torrent and looping
cascade. Rubinstein sweeps our souls
with the wild music of a tornado.
Sabbath bells are set to tho oratorio of
creation.
It is God's day bscause it is man's
day. The Sabbath was made for man.
Infidel assaults are in vain.
We have only to ask who is man?
What is man?
Manhood is not eating and drinking
and wallowing. This may be hog
only.
WHAT MANHOOD MEAN'S.
Manhood means t!ic moral, the spirit?
ual, tho something that makes human?
ity more than animal. The Sabbath
was made for man. All that can lift
man toward his high destiny-this is
of the Sabbath-the voice that soothes
and startles and inspires, the thought
that opens new worlds, song and story,
music and art, mountain and plain and
sea-all that speak of the invisible,
the eternal-are for man and in man's
great day of rest and inspiration !
Therefore the day must live with in?
creasing power.
I believe it because I believe in the
future of humanity-of that majestic
composite humanity of which this ex?
position prophesies. For God has mad ?
us of one blood, and ho will bring us
to one triumph in the end. We have
alien blood, I know, but the same great
mother gave us birth. In the stor1
of our last disgraceful slaughter of II
dians a writer tells us that at Pine
Ridge there was an Irish soldier, kneel?
ing with his comrades behind a bank,
who was shot close to the heart.
''Faith.1 ' he exclaimed, "I'm shure
it's all over wid me ! Rowl me round,
boys, an make a fince of me. "
The next moment he was dead. They
obeyed him and used his body as a ram?
part.
Another incident is told of the same
fight worthy of note. A squaw re?
treated backward before the terrific fire
of the white soldiers, holding both
hands behind her.
She fell at last, pierced with many
bullets. It was found that she had
sheltered a baby with her wounded
body-a baby, ugly and copper colored
like herself." She was killed. The
child was saved. And it was somebody
else's baby. God has made us of one
blood. Let races clash-in the better
race that emerges will be written even
in their very blood this law. The gen?
tleness and sweetness and joy and pow?
er of man's great soul freshened day
must grow as man grows and his civ?
ilization advances.
In the sunshine and peace of these
days of rest with the flood of purifying
memories lies the secret of the reserve
power of our great men. As the nation
grows in greatness it will more and
more recognize it.
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