Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Susan was religious. She had a visionary imagination, a lively sense of an egocentric cosmos. Once she was called on to testify at a Sabbath meeting of the Colgate Brethren. She succeeded so well she became a frequent preacher. As her fame spread, her ambition grew. Then she fell in love, married a good workman, but kept on preaching. When her husband was killed in an accident, she even preached at the funeral. Susan and her religion both came a cropper when she met young Clarabut, a penniless wastrel who admired her but would not take her Message seriously. Clarabut...
Steal, kill, dishonor father & mother, disregard the Sabbath, have any gods they like and images thereof...
Next day was Friday, the Moslem sabbath. To a mosque jammed with zealots the priest raged against "accursed Christians and the adoption of their vile habits by some Persian women." With the tirade at its height, suddenly the congregation was startled by the ring of spurs on the stone mosque floor...
When the question was argued before the legislative codes committee at Albany three weeks ago, Rev. Dr. Bernard Drachman of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America insisted that the issue was essentially a religious and spiritual one. "We are not at all interested in its commercial aspects," said he. Others, however, pointed out that, because the Jewish faith prohibits work on Saturday, and the State laws restrict work on Sunday, Jews are condemned to a five-day business week. All agreed that a partnership between a Jew and a Gentile should not be used as a device for working seven...
...Sabbath day, according to Genesis, was not established in Paradise. God ended his work on the seventh day, and blessed it and sanctified it. He did not command Adam and Eve to observe that day as a day of rest. There is no evidence that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or any of the other Patriarchs observed the Sabbath. Nor is there evidence that when the Israelites came out of Egypt had they never heard of it. Hence their surprise on receiving double rations of manna on the sixth day (Ex. 16:22), so that they might rest on the Sabbath...