Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Noah W. Cooper, Chairman of the Methodist Church Sabbath Crusade, presented his visage and his hand to the President. Mr. Cooper suggested forcibly that the spiritual health of the nation would be greatly improved if on Sundays all interstate commerce, all newspapers, all sports, all business were suspended. He said: "Every one of the 2,500 Sunday trains is tooting America's downfall. America must emancipate her 10,000,000 slaves to Sunday labor or go to ruin." (See RELIGION...
...attraction of the sins of Manhattan for ministers of the Gospel from the hinterland is periodically demonstrated, and never more clearly than last week when the Chairman of the Sabbath Crusade Committee of the Tennessee Synod of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, opened his mouth in the Bible House, Manhattan...
...Churchmen who condone Sabbath-breaking are as wicked in God's sight as bootleggers, robbers, bank breakers, adulterers, drunkards and liars' whom they condemn...
...eight evenings at sundown, beginning with the Sabbath eve, (Friday) almost every Jewish household assembled before an odd-shaped candelabra, a candleholder with nine sockets-eight in as straight array as a well drilled military squad, the ninth in the solitude of the leader, the pilot. Each evening the paterfamilias, as family priest, lit the pilot, handed it most carefully over to his youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked...
There is a scandal sheet for the book-reading public as well as for the shop girls and mechanics who entertain themselves on the Sabbath with the misadventures of financiers and stage beauties. Consequently, not a year passes without a tremendous sale for some book on the private affairs of the great and near great, written by a person who is blatantly on the inside of everything, and can entertain the curious with bons mots and moth-eaten scandal for four hundred pages. The Greville Memoirs (unexpurgated--think of it!) are shortly to be published in this country...