Their greed seizes on the one day which ought to be used for the rest and worship men need, and turns that also into a day of merchandise.

Do we need any other fact to convince us of the terrible selfishness of the human heart?
"Or take the case of the saloons.

What right have they to open their doors in direct contradiction to the town ordinance forbidding it?
And yet this ordinance is held by them in such contempt that this very morning as I came to this church I passed more than half a dozen of these sections of hell, wide open to any poor sinning soul that might be enticed therein.

Citizens of Milton, where does the responsibility rest for this violation of law?
Does it rest with the churches and the preachers to see that the few Sunday laws we have are enforced by them, while the business men and the police lazily dodge the issue and care not how the matter goes, saying it is none of their business?
"But suppose you say the saloons are beyond your power.

That does not release you from doing what is in your power, easily, to prevent this day from being trampled under foot and made like every other day in its scramble after money and pleasure.