Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, on the Sabbath, Bishop Brown went to services at St. Paul's Church and took the sacrament from the hands of Bishop Cheshire who pronounced: "Ye who do truly and earnestly repent of your sins . . . and intend to lead a new life following the commandments of God . . . draw near with faith and take His holy sacrament . . ." Later the same day, Bishop Brown preached at the Labor Temple and declared...
...Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath...
...drizzling Sunday, 31,000,000 Germans, or 85% of the electorate, went to the polls from church, or to church from the polls. Serious disturbances?between Monarchists, Republicans and Communists?interrupted the Sabbath calm. From north and south, east and west of Germany reports filtered in telling tales of violence. Several persons were killed, many were more or less seriously injured. In Berlin, the same story was told; but it fell to the Communists to supply a note of humor. The Communist Red Cat or ganization paraded the city in motor trucks singing their "Miau-Miau" song...
...South: "I say there is ten times more respect for God and the Bible and the Christian religion in the South than in any other part of the United States. . . . They have not felt the infiltration of this great horde with their Continental ideas of God and the Sabbath...
...Once upon a time we started plays at 12 o'clock. We would not give performances on Saturday night, for the Sabbath began at dark. In those days actors were looked upon as almost vagabonds. When Edwin Booth maintained what was then a magnificent theatre in New York a minister wrote him, asking how he might enter by a private door. So the public morality has changed. But the theatre is no better now than fifty years...