Word: sabbaths
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...amazed," said the Scotsman, "at a great many of my old friends saying that the Scottish Sabbath was a burden. I would like to see a state of society where every man and woman preferred the old Scotch Sabbath to the modern French one, because in that state of society you would have fine, solid, eternal foundations of character and self-command...
...placed in a peculiar position. His character, as the author points out in some of his best passages, is after all essentially conservative. He is fond of forms and precedents and traditions; in one of his latest public utterances--almost Gladstonian in tone--he has praised the Scotch Sabbath as compared with the Continental Sunday. It is no wonder that his wilder supporters from Glasgow--the irrepressible Jack Jones and others--should often chafe under the rein and that even his closest friends should bewail the fact that he so seldom chooses to rise to heights of impassioned and inspired...
...suppression of vice and immorality" was passed in New Jersey providing that no "wordly business or employment, nor any interludes, plays for gain, dancing, singing, fiddling or other music for the sake of merriment" should be carried on upon the Sabbath day. In 1923, this statute still remains on the books: zealous but simple-minded ladies and gentlemen invoke it to suppress Sunday movies and theatres, while paleoxed legislators seek daily to add more awe of the vintage of 1798 to the already complete collection...
Previously the organ had been played only at festivals. Strictly orthodox members of a Jewish congregation hold that music should not be played at services until the Temple of Solomon is restored. Furthermore, organ-playing demands manual labor on the Sabbath...
...spent this Sabbath day, I believe, quite as close to God Almighty as though we worshipped in temples erected by man, for we spent the day amidst the grandeur, the majesty and the inspirations of the great Yellowstone National Park." So said President Harding at Livingston, Mont., shortly after leaving the Park...