HOLIDAY.
8-11-‘36.
By G.W.S.Ware.
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Holiday, a day of joy and gaiety in celebration of some event; a day of freedom from
labor.
Governor Rivers proclaimed to day a holiday, to celebrate the coming of President
Roosevelt into the State of Georgia. This is not compulsory, but a sign of respect to his
high office, for those inclined this way. God, as the creator and ruler of men, commands
them to make one out of every seven a holiday (Ex. 20:8), to keep it holy, a sabbath unto
God.
After this, the passover, and other annual holidays were set apart for observance, but
were fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ, hence, are no longer observed as duties to be
performed. Before Christ appeared on earth, the Jewish Rulers had set so many things, that
they were dangerous to the Church of Christ (Gal. 4:10,11). A Pharisee had two fast days a
week before God, which he turned into sin (Lu. 18:11,12).
When I was a boy, christmas and Sunday were the holidays, for, during the Civil War,
the South did not stress the 4th. of July. Our Revolutionary War breeded one, the Civil
War more, and things since then, more still, till a brood of nine of them, comes around
every year.
Farmers, are the least effected by this brood of holidays; though, sometimes when he
darts away from fighting grass out of his crop, into town, to do some urgent business; and
finds it locked against him by a holiday, the reaction is sudden and to the point: If he
belong to the devil, he lets out some blue oaths, if to God, he throws to the wind his
troubles, rushes back to the grass battle, resolved to brush on holiday knowledge before
he starts for town next time.
Farmers, who breathe the fresh air of earth, as they stir its soil, should rejoice that
their fellowmen in town can enjoy a holiday.
