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to take some rest after the great fatigue they have gone through, the General, in future, excuses them from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the shipyards, or on special occasions, until further orders. — Washington. The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance o f the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people and a due regard for the divine will, demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline and character of the na tional forces should not suffer, nor the cause they defend be imperiled, by the profanation of the day or name o f the Most High.—' Lincoln. There are enough holidays for most of us. Sunday differs from other holidays in the fact that there are fifty-two of them every year. Therefore, on Sundays go to church. Yes, I know all the excuses. I know that one Can worship the Creator in a grove o f trees, or by a running brook, or in a man’s own house just as well as in a church. But I also know as a matter of cold fact the average man does not thus worship, or thus dedicate himself! If he stays away from the church he does not spend his time in good works or in lofty meditation.— R oosevelt. I profoundly believe in the Sabbath and have always recognized its sacred impor tance. I, therefore, appreciate the work your organization is doing for the pre servation of the Christian Sabbath and the weekly rest day, and, with you, I feel that we should give attention not only to the physical aspects, but also to the moral and spiritual phases o f the Holy Day. —Coolidge.
Good citizenship in a democracy de mands the acceptance of the rule of the majority of free citizens. If the majority is wrong, good citizens will try to alter public opinion and bring about a change by constitutional procedure. To do this there must be free speech, the right to ex press one’s ideas; but not subversive speech, urging to rebellion. Bolshevism’s claim of free speech is false. It fails to recognize the freedom of others. We must take our citizenship seriously, interesting ourselves in everything that concerns the community. We may learn our duty in this respect from such great citizens as Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt. Roosevelt was perhaps the ideal citizen, strong, upright, faithful to his ideals, energetic in smiting wrong wher ever he saw it, and eager to correct abuses. — o — October 19, 1930 Christians and Sunday Matthew 12:1-8 , T houghts on the T opic The topic seems to take for granted that the Christian should observe the first day of the week as his special day of rest and worship. Many, it is true, refuse to ac cept this conclusion, holding to the sev enth day, or Sabbath as they call it. A simple study of the Sabbath question may be found in a booklet, “ Is Sunday the Christian’s Rest Day?” sold at Biola Book Room at five cents a copy. The real problem is, How should Chris tians spend Sunday? The enemy would, if he could, rob us of any special day of the week in which God is honored and the resurrection o f our Lord Jesus Christ commemorated. But for the Christian there should be no argument. If we are saved by the grace of God through Jesus Christ, we certainly can do no less than to give one day in sfeven to worship, prayer and thanksgiving, both in the home and in the church. It should not be a day of severe repression but of joy in the Lord. It is indeed a terrible perversion when the day is spent in selfish pleasure in which there is no room for thoughts of God. Besides the opportunities for per sonal edification, the Lord’s day gives time for service for Christ. On that day the Gospel should be taken to the unsaved, or, to change the thought about, the unsaved should be brought within the sound of the Gospel, whether in young people’s meet ings or in church services. To love and worship God and to work for the salva tion of sinners—this should be for the Christian the meaning of the day. $ sjs s{c S ide L ights Mr. Gladstone was asked to speak into a phonograph, that the record might be made for use fifty years hence. These were the words he spoke : “ I owe my life and vigor, through a long and busy life, to the Sabbath Day, with its blessed sur cease of toil.”— Sunday School Chronicle. What Presidents Have Said Concerning The Sabbath That the troops may have an opportun ity of attending public worship, as well as
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Uo You Know — 1. That there are sixty-five million peo ple in the United States who are not mem bers of any church? 2. That there are twenty-seven million young people over the age of nine and un der the age of twenty-five who have no religious training? 3. That there were seventy-five thou sand illegitimate children born in the United States last year; that forty thou sand of these mother were under the age of fourteen; and that the average age of the fallen girl is sixteen? 4. That the United States has more di vorces than any nation in the world?
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