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Vol. 6
The Church
Let Something Good Be Said
When over the fore fone of friend or foe
The shadows of disgrace shall fall mn
stoend
Of words ot hile, or
prood ol thus ond
NO
.
Let something cood he sid,
Foroet that no fellow being ved
Mav fall so Tow bur ove may ire hos
hood:
oven the cheek of <hoome with tears as
Wet,
Ht something cond be send,
No vencrous heart may vainly torn aside
Iho wavs of sympathy no <onl so dead
But may awaken strong and glorified,
I seething good be sand,
And <0) | charge Ve IS the thorny CTON
And by the cross one whieh the Saviour
bled,
And by ovour own soul's hope of far
FOToOWI,
Let something cood be sand,
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The Sunday Law in the California
Legislature
As aso owell known hy the readers of
the Recorprr, there has been pending
in the Californie Legislature sinee Jane
uary Lh a0 proposed Constitution
Amendment, providing thar Sunday shall
be observed as a dav of rest thronghow
the State, Ito would require too muel
space to eve ao full bistory of this mens
wre: but we will he able to present enough
to <how its course through the Teoish
Tire,
The Bill was assioned to the connie
on Constitutional Nnmendents, and the
privilege of oo heaving for alls either tor
or awninst the accorded
frresistibee, WHS
February 40 Just
lder
and he aod the writer Kept wateh of the
prior to this time, he
Qervices of Healey Were secured,
Mountain View. Cal.. February 28. 1907.
Bill, and prepared speeches against it for
the hearing,
Something Hike twenty ministers were
committee heard the
present when the
arguments for ond against and, tooo
man they argued that the measure had
no relicions  siontficance whatever, It
was entirely oan the mterests of the work
tig man, to provide hime one dav of rest
Im oseven, so that he mihi not he over
that
mmtrodueed the all de
hehalt, that 1
Ile, however, made
worked, Strange to sav, however,
the man who
claved, ne argmme in 1s
wis striethvo religions,
aopoor showing in his effort, hy trving Po
Bible.
he tried to show the Legishiture that
sustain it trom the or instance,
Sunday was Rept dn thie days of Moses,
One hour was viven to those favoring
bull,
vided among seven speakers,
the passage of the and oatowas dh
The strong:
estoreason they ove tor helieving tha
the people desired this amendment, was
THER
load
that they about six thousand sig
matures of voters to the petition
dis ovors Then the opposition wis
decorded one hour and a quarters The
writer spoke for halt an hours and in his
remarks showed that more people were
opposed to the passage of such omens:
ure than were in vor of at: and, as a
proof of this, he presented to the com-
mittee nearly fifteen thousand signatures
of degal voters against it. He was then
followed by Fodder Heater, who nsed one
halt hour also, no which time he pre
sented nmmtter soo clear ent and so con
vineine that every member of the cone
mittee seemed deeply impressed. Flder
AY
fifteen
Wilcox then used the remaining
minutes inn few well-chosen
words, which were a fitting climax to the
speeches already presented against the
bill.
hoe Droponents of the ll tor the closing
Fittecn minutes were then given to
aroiments, Bishop Morehond used abont
fen minutes of this time without scoring
The
Lover
pot. halanee ot the
single
wis uscd hy Dunne, of Nace
acento, in whieh his main efforts seemed
firme
They that Feared the Lord Spake Often One to Another
No. 31
belittle the mele
hill.
The committee having the hill in charge
to he to arguments
aoainst the
seemed to see the antmus ot those who
&
were advocating the measure, and as
soon as the hearinme was over went into
executive session. Ito turned out that
not one of the committee were in
Favor of the original bill, As a remedy,
they mtroduced a substitute for the bill
providing that “no person shall be em
ploved more than six conseentive days
moone week," This being just wha
the proponents of the hill called for in
the heave, the committee felt justified
in presenting such a substitute,
time and the final dis:
Between hat
position of the measure, neariy every
member of the Legislature was sounded
ax to his attitude toward the ally and
for quite a long time before it came up
tor final passage we felt quite confident
that 1 could not possibly have the re
quired two-thirds majority to pass it.
The
tion on {he
matter came up tor final ae
2h of February, and the
substitute was voted down by an overs
whelming majority, Of course, the sub
stitute having been rejected, the origl-
mal hill took its place aga, and after
some speeches on the floor, both for and
aoninst, the
oi vote was taken, whieh ree
sulted in forty six voting against and
twenty an favor, This was an over
whelming defeat, mm view of the tact
that fifty-four votes were necessary to
carry the measure,
This ends the matter for this session
of the Legislature. Traes the same hill
was presented before the Senate, but the
Chirman of the Senate Committee hav
ing the hill in charge, told us that at was
buried in the Upper House, and unless
for hy the Senate 1
that hady,
itowas called would
not be presented to
We certainly
Crod, thet
have reasons for grat
tude 1o this matter has been
put oft tor another hriet period; hut be
cause of this, no one should feel that now
there ix nothing to be done in this mat: