Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colin Hamilton Livingstone, President of the Boy Scouts of America, also spoke in favor of the bill, contending that it did not interfere with religious liberty, although he admitted that all creeds do not designate Sunday as the Sabbath...
...said: "In the United States the law of the majority rules," and he declared further: "The law ought to make unbelievers do what their ancestors did and what they ought to do?not desecrate the Sabbath...
...German Jew, Moses Mendelssohn, to bring his coreligionists out of their spiritual seclusion into the current cultural life, stresses the national culture of the country of which the adherents are citizens. Its ritual is quite up to date. From the Temple pulpits on Sunday morning (this shift of the Sabbath solemnities is a jibing with convenience) the congregations hear lectures hung on current news topics, as do those of many Christian churches. Yet one must note that the pulpit sideshows so currently prevalent are largely eschewed in Jewish houses of worship...
...virtues, freedom and wealth of New York and America will be lost if we destroy the Sabbath. I challenge every American editor to show an error in my statement...
With Methodist money the Sabbath Chairman telegraphed every railroad president, asking cooperation. One replied. Frederick D. Atterbury President of the Erie, said he would be delighted to abolish Sunday trains; they lose money...