Word: sabbaths
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...meal, not to keep any overnight. "But some of them left it until the morning and it bred worms and stank." Moses was vexed. The Lord's instructions had been to gather a two-day supply on Fridays so as not to have to work on the Sabbath. This they did, kept it over Friday night, and lo, "it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein...
Governor John G. Richards, South Carolina: "I regard the great national sin today the want of a proper observance of the Sabbath...
...with interminable and dreary calls on friends of the family, where an incredibly hard and stiff-backed chair was usually provided for him, from which perch he was left to contemplate the family portraits while his elders discussed matters beyond his ken. Now that such ordeals are done, the Sabbath passes in a flaccid mood that contenplates and condemns all things, particularly those of an academic tinge. There is scant pleasure in a contemplation of Monday's lecture schedule, and the day closes with a sense of futility and a dread of the professorial wrath to come...
...only, however, was the student forbidden to put his nose outside the door on Sunday to take a walk, he was not even allowed to dress up on occasions, even if these occasions were not on the Sabbath. In fact elegant dressing seems to have been one of the worst crimes on the Puritan Harvard calendar, as may be seen from the following...
...Sunday laws, I thank God that I live in a State that has the decency to at least observe one day out of the week. We do not have shows, roadhouses and dance-halls going at full swing as in Ohio. Our citizens have a proper regard for the Sabbath. . . . It was in the State of Ohio and the City of Cincinnati that I first saw women drinking in public and I have never yet seen this in West Virginia...