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The Fundamentals and give six of them, what would you think of the ingrate if you were told he came at night and robbed me of the seventh ? I wonder what God thinks of the man to whom He gives six days for his own free use and finds the man appropriating to himself that which is specially stamped as God’s.” What is the use of a Lord’s Day if it is to be swamped between the secular tide of one worldly week gone, and of another coming, and to have nothing about it that distin guishes it from all the other days, except in some fanciful alteration in the style of its wordliness or carnality ? Look at the people who have spent the entire Sabbath in pleasure seeking. Not one gleam of spiritual light in their faces, not one crumb of spiritual food in their souls, going to bed at night a day’s march nearer home. Home? Yes, if home is the grave and eternal death . Otherwise a day’s march farther from home, if home is God, and if heaven is an experience into which men graduate from this earthly season of moral training and spiritual acquisition. BLUE LAWS BETTER THAN RED ANARCHY We are not pleading for a Puritan Sunday of bigotry or intolerance. We are not pleading for blue laws. But as be tween bigotry and a mush of concession give us bigotry every time. And even the bluest of blue laws would be preferable to red anarchy. We appeal for a safe and sane Sabbath, not in the interests of the Church or religion, but in the interests of all the people, believers and unbelievers, because the Sab bath was made for mankind. When I stood the other day in the little log cabin where Abraham Lincoln first saw the light, I thought of his regard for the Sabbath, and there came to my mind these words of his: “As we keep, or break, the Sab bath day, we nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope by which man rises.” It is true there are many noble people who never get a Sabbath to themselves. They are busy in works of necessity
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