Word: sabbaths
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Jews hold no funerals on their Sabbath. Funerals are too mournful; the Sabbath should be a day of reverent rejoicing. Some Christians, however, take a mournful pleasure in funerals. Lately, a Christian group banned Sunday funerals, but not with the purpose of depriving any one of Sunday pleasures. For three years the Ministerial Association of Lincoln, Neb. has worked for a city ordinance prohibiting Sunday funerals. The Lincoln City Council unanimously approved an ordinance drafted by Methodist Rev. Walter Aitken, Baptist Rev. C. H. Walcott, and G. T. Slavery of the United Brethren. Lincoln ministers feel they are busy enough...
...rich man dies. He is not celebrated for piety. Indeed he may frequently have broken the third Commandment (swearing), or the fourth (breaking the Sabbath), or the seventh (adultery), or the eighth (stealing), or the tenth (covetousness). Nevertheless his family desires a fine funeral, complete with eulogy. So the parson polishes up a sonorous speech, hunts for apt quotations...
...doubtless know, Friday evening is the eve of the Sabbath for those of the Jewish Faith and at the time of your broadcast we are in our Houses of Worship. This deprives many of your subscribers and readers, as well as many listeners, of a most stimulating enactment of affairs of the past week. Wednesday evening, of course, would deprive other faiths and Sunday evening practically all Christian denominations hold religious services...
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...