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ult471 but in compliance with the       
request of many  friends1 it is now     
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testimony to  8present truth0 and       
present duty1 and with the earnest      
prayer that it may  be of some service  
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,,christian ,,sabbath4          ,,isaiah
 ,v4 #bd4--8,therefore1 as the fire     
devoureth the stubble1 and the          
flame consumeth the chaff1 so their root
 shall be as rottenness1 and      their 
blossom shall go up as dust1 because    
they have cast away the      law of the 
,lord of hosts1 and despised the word of
 the ,holy ,one of      ,israel40       

,,luke ,,xvi4 #ac4--8,ye cannot serve   
,god and ,mammon40        #b ,,timothy  
,,iii4 #d4--8,lovers of pleasure more   
than lovers of ,god3 from      such turn
 away40    ,a ,,simultaneous effort is  
this day being made in this parish1 by  
ministers  of various sections of the   
one ,church of ,christ1 to direct public
  attention to a question of no ordinary
 magnitude1 with which the cause of     
national righteousness is identified2   
and to stir up the community to  unite  
in vigorous1 yet peaceful opposition to 
a project1 which involves  the          
perpetration of a great national sin4   
,most of those now present have gazed   
with admiration on the marvels of  the  
memorable and magnificent ,crystal      
,palace of #ahea1 the design of which   
originated with the same ,prince who1 in
 his homage to the ,supreme ,ruler  of  
nations1 had previously suggested as an 
appropriate motto for our  ,royal       
,exchange the words now graven on its   
pediment3 8,the earth is the  ,lord's1  

and the fulness thereof40  ,it was in   
beautiful harmony with this  recognition
 of the sovereignty of ,heaven1 and it  
formed one of its most  gratifying      
features1 that the doors of the ,crystal
 ,palace were closed on  the ,lord's    
day4  ,england thus solemnly proclaimed 
to assembled nations  that she exalted  
the spiritual above the material--the   
eternal above the  temporal--the        
immortal above the perishable--in a     
word1 by this public  acknowledgment of 
the ,divine law1 the ,royal             
,commissioners1 in the  nation's name1  
put honour on the ,sabbath of ,god4     
,the gorgeous fabric1 whose wonders had 
attracted myriads of spectators1  having
 fulfilled its design1 by exhibiting in 
peaceful rivalry the  products of       
genius1 and science1 and industrial     
skill1 collected from all  nations1 was 
ordered to be taken down4  ,many were   
anxious for its  preservation2 meetings 
were held and petitions presented to the
  ,legislature on the subject2 but it   

was finally decided1 by a vote of the   
,house of ,commons1 that1 in accordance 
with the terms of the original          
agreement1 the structure should be      
removed4  ,the directors of a railway   
company then resolved to purchase the   
materials1 and reconstruct the  edifice 
on a new site1 in an improved and more  
enduring form1 and on a  scale of       
unprecedented magnificence and          
splendour4  ,in connection with  this   
movement1 a crisis most grave and       
momentous has come upon us1  fraught    
with the elements of danger to our      
national ,sabbath1 and to that  morality
 and social order which largely depend  
on its due observance4  ,it  is stated1 
with an air of authority1 by the press1 
that an application  has been made to   
the ,prime ,minister of the country for 
a charter of  incorporation1 enabling   
the company to open the ,crystal        
,palace1 under  ,royal sanction1 on the 
afternoon of the ,lord's day2 that he   
has signified  his acquiescence1 and    

that the responsible advisers of the    
,crown are  prepared to recommend the   
granting of the charter1 with the       
required  licence4  ,it1 therefore1     
becomes the duty of every ,christian in 
the land1  who rejoices in the blessed  
privileges of the ,sabbath1 to plead for
 its  full and faithful observance4     
,true it is that some concessions are   
made1  in apparent deference to the     
religious feelings of the community4    
,it is  proposed that no train shall run
 before one o'clock on the ,lord's day2 
that after that hour the public shall be
 admitted only to the park and to  that 
portion of the palace called the ,winter
 ,garden2 whilst the  compartments      
devoted exclusively to productions of   
manufacturing and  commercial industry  
shall be closed2 and further1 the       
directors undertake  that on the        
,sabbath day no spirituous liquors shall
 be sold in the  grounds4  ,but         
notwithstanding these plausible         
concessions1 nay all the  more because  

of the false principles which ,i am     
persuaded they involve1 ,i  still regard
 the proposition with abhorrence1 as    
opposed to an express  command of       
,heaven1 and ,i stand here to-night1    
resolved in the strength of  ,god to    
lift up a solemn protest against it1 and
 to urge on all who hear  me the        
necessity of endeavouring1 by dutiful   
remonstrance1 to prevent the  systematic
 violation of ,god's law under the      
sanction of the executive  authority of 
the realm4    ,there are certain leading
 ideas suggested by the passages ,i have
 read1  which bear upon the subject now 
before us4  ,it is clearly indicated    
that  the law of ,god cannot be despised
 or violated by any nation without      
bringing down upon it the righteous     
judgments of ,heaven 7this being        
especially true with regard to the      
transgression of the law of the         
,sabbath71 and it is also taught that   
the service which ,god demands is  such 
as will admit of no compromise1 either  

with the claims of  covetousness on the 
one hand1 or with the pursuit of sinful 
pleasure on  the other4    ,i4  ,the    
,law of ,god cannot be violated by any  
nation1 without exposing  it to the     
righteous judgments of ,heaven4  ,this  
is a great principle  repeatedly laid   
down in ,scripture1 and fully           
authenticated by the facts  of history4 
,it holds true with regard to           
individuals as well as nations1  and is 
abundantly illustrated by the course of 
events in the natural as  well as in the
 spiritual world4  ,there are fixed laws
 which regulate the  phenomena of the   
sun and the solar system1 by which the  
planets move in  their orbits1 and all  
derive light and heat from the king of  
day2 and if  it were possible to disturb
 this harmony by any dislocating force1 
then  all things in the universe would  
be out of place1 and 8chaos0 would 8come
  again40  ,there are fixed laws1 also1 
by which health and life are  regulated1
 protected1 and preserved1 any violation

 of which brings its  own punishment4   
,you cannot take up fire without being  
burned1 for it is  the property of fire 
to burn2 you cannot handle the venomous 
serpent1 and  expect that it will not   
pierce you with its deadly fangs2 for it
 is the  nature of the serpent--the very
 law of its life--to poison and destroy4
  ,you cannot eat or drink to excess1   
without deranging that beautiful        
concord of the bodily organs which      
constitutes health1 and bringing on     
yourself disease and premature death4   
,and if we turn to the spiritual  world1
 we shall find similar results4  ,sin is
 the spiritual serpent which  poisons   
and destroys the life of the soul4      
,extend its baneful influence  from the 
individual to a family1 all are brought 
under its blight and  curse4  ,and so it
 is of communities and nations1 which   
are aggregates of  individuals1 and     
subject1 in their collective capacity1  
to the same law4  ,the kingdoms of the  
earth are placed under the eye and      

control of ,him who  is ,governor among 
the nations1 and to whom they are under 
solemn  responsibilities4               
8,righteousness exalteth a nation1      
whilst sin is the  reproach 7as well as 
the ruin7 of any people40  ,let it not  
be forgotten  that the ,lord ,jesus     
,christ is 8,king of nations10 as well  
as 8,king of  saints20 and oftentimes1  
in the history of the world1 have his   
judgments  been made manifest4  ,seated 
on his mediatorial throne1 8all power is
  given unto him in heaven and in       
earth40  ,the nation or kingdom that    
will  not serve him 8shall be utterly   
wasted20 and history1 we repeat1 has    
fearfully attested the exercise of his  
dread authority1 and the  vindication of
 his prerogative to 8root out1 to pull  
down1 and to  destroy0 the despisers of 
his law4    ,thus it was that ,god dealt
 with the heathen nations of ,canaan4   
,the  8iniquity of the ,amorites0 was   
8not yet full0 when ,he made a covenant 
with ,abraham1 subsequently renewed to  

,jacob at the foot of the mystic        
ladder2 but the cup was filled up to    
overflowing when ,joshua crossed the    
,jordan as ,heaven's own avenger4    ,it
 was so with ,egypt4  ,she held in iron 
bondage the people of ,god1 and  clung  
to her abominable idolatry in the       
worship of birds and beasts and         
creeping things4  ,even while by the    
colony of shepherds1 who had migrated   
from ,palestine to ,goshen1 the light of
 ,divine truth was kindled in her       
midst1 she remained an impenitent rebel2
 and when ten plagues had wasted  her   
borders1 and sent the wail of sore      
bereavement in one night into  every    
family1 the last act in the drama of    
,divine judgment was  consummated in    
that anger which whelmed the chariots   
and horsemen and all  the hosts of      
,pharaoh in the surging billows of the  
,red ,sea4    ,look1 again1 at proud    
,nineveh4  ,why did she perish8  ,the   
answer is found  in the ,divine         
declaration1 8,i will make thy grave1   

for thou art vile40  ,yes1 so deep did  
,jehovah dig the dishonoured grave of   
,nineveh1 that only  now1 at the end of 
#bejj years1 are her obelisks and winged
 lions--her idol  gods of stone1 and the
 engraved memorials of her battles1 her 
sieges1 and  her victories1 disentombed 
and brought to the light of day1 to the 
confusion of the sceptic1 and the       
confirmation of the 8sure word of       
prophecy40    ,and was it not so with   
,babylon--the beauty of the ,chaldees'  
excellency--which ,god in his anger made
 as ,sodom and ,gomorrah--a solitary    
waste for owls to dwell therein1 and    
dragons to cry in her pleasant  palaces8
  ,and if ,tyre1 once the emporium of   
commerce1 whose 8merchants  were        
princes10 and whose 8traffickers were   
the honourable of the  earth0--if she   
has now become a rock on which the      
fisherman dries his  nets2--if the      
desolate caves and dwellings of ,petra1 
like the eagle's  eyrie 8in the sides of
 the rock10 tell of what ,edom once was 

in the day  of her glory and pride2--if 
the republics of ,greece have long since
  perished under the fierce barbarism of
 their ,moslem invaders2--if  ,carthage1
 despite the valour of her sons and the 
consummate skill of her  accomplished   
chief1 fell1 trodden to the dust beneath
 the iron hoof of  her victorious rival1
 ,rome2--and if the colossal empire of  
,rome itself1  then the mistress of the 
world1 has crumbled into fragments1     
bequeathing  to the genius of history   
such ample materials for the wondrous   
story of  her 8,decline and ,fall20--if 
,attila and ,alaric were the scourges of
 ,god to  hasten her downfall2--if1     
later still1 ,france and ,spain and the 
republics  of ,italy have been the scene
 of frightful convulsions and bloody    
wars1  surely these impressive lessons  
were written on the page of the world's 
annals to teach us the solemn truth1    
that ,god punishes guilty nations as    
such for the violation of his laws--that
 8verily there is a ,god who  judgeth in

 the earth40    ,,ii4  ,if it be true1  
in a general sense1 that the violation  
of the laws of  ,god brings wrath upon a
 people1 we have abundant evidence to   
show that  the violation of the law of  
the ,sabbath1 in an especial and        
emphatic  manner1 provokes the ,divine  
judgments4  ,it was one of the crowning 
acts of ,israel's wickedness and        
apostasy that she had ceased to honour  
the day of ,god2 and one of the causes  
of the ,babylonish captivity was        
indicated in the awful charge1 8,my     
,sabbaths have they greatly polluted40  
,and so you find that when ,god assigns 
the period of ,israel's bondage in a    
strange land1 by a strong figure ,he    
represents the very soil of ,canaan as  
outraged by their past profanation of   
his holy day1 and declares that the     
land should have her ,sabbaths--7that   
was when the people should be carried   
away captive to ,babylon7--8as long as  
it lieth desolate1 and ye be in your    
enemies' land1 then shall the land rest 

and enjoy her ,sabbaths1 because  ye did
 not rest in your ,sabbaths when ye     
dwelt upon it40  ,and how awful  was the
 warning addressed to rebellious ,israel
 by the mouth of ,jeremiah3  8,but if ye
 will not hearken unto me to hallow the 
,sabbath day1 and not to  bear a burden1
 even entering in at the gates of       
,jerusalem on the  ,sabbath-day1 then   
will ,i kindle a fire in the gates      
thereof1 and it shall  devour the       
palaces of ,jerusalem1 and it shall not 
be quenched60  ,is all  this1 ,i ask1 an
 inexplicable mystery8  ,has it no      
instruction for us8--no  application to 
the times in which we live--no voice of 
warning for our  guidance8  ,on the     
contrary1 is it not clear that the      
fourth commandment  in the moral law is 
what the keystone is to the arch--what  
the heart is to  the bodily frame--what 
the foundation is to the building1 that 
the  observance of this commandment lies
 at the very basis of national  morality
 and national greatness8  ,and if it be 

wickedly violated1  systematically1     
deliberately violated under the sanction
 of human  authority1 in direct defiance
 of ,divine law1 by any people1 utter   
and  irretrievable ruin must fall on    
that guilty nation2 the ,lord of ,hosts 
will 8break the pride of its power10 and
 bring a sword that shall 8avenge  the  
quarrel of his covenant60    ,,iii4     
,closely connected with the profanation 
of this day by ,israel was  apostasy in 
religion4  ,they departed from the      
cardinal truth of ,god's  unity to the  
worship of the 8gods many and lords     
many0 of the heathen  nations around    
them4  ,thus1 the sanctuary being       
forsaken and the ,sabbath  violated1    
they gave heed to the instruction of    
lying and wicked prophets1  and a flood 
of ungodliness was poured all over the  
land4  ,and even after  their return    
from bondage1 the leaven of their       
wickedness  remained--idolatrous        
alliances1 intermarriages with heathen  
nations1 and  other crimes1 are         

connected in the sacred history with    
,sabbath  profanation4  ,hence1         
,nehemiah1 the bold ,reformer1 records  
how he  contended with the people and   
even with the nobles of ,judah1 and how1
  testifying against their sin1 he said 
unto them1 8,what evil thing is this  ye
 do and profane the ,sabbath day8  ,did 
not your fathers thus1 and did  not our 
,god bring all this evil upon us and    
upon this city8  ,yet ye bring  more    
wrath upon ,israel by profaning the     
,sabbath40    ,now1 it is precisely so  
with regard to the ,christian ,sabbath4 
,a system  of spurious ,christianity has
 mutilated it by the sanction of secular
  occupations and sinful pleasures on   
that holy day4  ,romanism1 in its       
ritual and service1 is1 in itself1 a    
blasphemous worship--its mass           
idolatry--its priests usurpers of the   
prerogative of ,christ1 8the ,great     
,high ,priest of our profession10 and   
teachers not of the ,gospel of ,christ1 
but of 8another gospel0--the devotions  

of her people are not simple1           
spiritual1 and ,bible-taught1 but the   
offspring of fear marked by             
superstition and self-righteousness1 and
 by the vain repetition of  prayers to  
those who are no more gods than were the
 dumb idols of ancient  ,paganism4      
,but1 in addition to this1 ,popery has  
made void the law of ,god1  the law of  
the ,sabbath1 by her traditions1 and    
that in two ways4--#ast1 ,she  has      
dragged down this blessed day of ,god   
from that place of peculiar  glory and  
grandeur1 where ,jehovah himself has    
enthroned it above every  other day1 and
 has degraded it to a level with the    
feasts and fasts of  the ,romish        
calendar1 making her own numerous       
holidays of equal authority  with the   
,holy ,day of ,god's appointment4  ,the 
consequence is1 that1 in all  ,popish   
countries1 the holidays are better      
observed than the ,sabbath1 just        
because superstition and will-worship   
are dear to the carnal heart4    #bnd1  

,she has robbed the law of ,god of its  
complete and permanent  authority4  ,she
 has contracted the ,scriptural limits  
of the ,sabbath1 and  made it a half    
instead of a whole ,sabbath4  ,hence1   
when the ,popish  mass is over at noon1 
the remaining portion of the day is     
regarded as a  holiday4  ,i speak not   
here of countries like our own1 where   
she  accommodates herself to the        
religious feelings and habits of the    
community1 but of countries where she   
holds paramount sway4  ,there  one-half 
of the ,sabbath is devoted to amusement 
and sensuous1 if not  sensual enjoyment4
  ,before famine and pestilence swept   
the neighbouring  island as with 8the   
besom of destruction10 crowds of the    
population might  be found on the       
,sabbath playing at the game of         
football1 wrestling in the  meadow1 or  
drinking and dancing in the             
public-house1 whilst many of the        
priests were wont1 as ,i have reason to 
know1 to spend the evening of the       

,sabbath in gay society1 and shared in  
card-playing and carousal4  ,and  when  
we look to ,france--the military review1
 the brilliant fte1 the  opening of a   
railway1 take place on the ,sabbath1    
while the population of  ,paris is      
divided between the attractions of      
,versailles1 the ,luxembourg1  and the  
,louvre1 and the numerous theatres which
 are thrown open by  authority for those
 who are 8lovers of pleasure more than  
lovers of ,god40    ,if we go to ,rome1 
the centre and source of that gigantic  
superstition  which flings its dark     
shadows over the continent of ,europe1  
we find  public 8lotteries0 in active   
operation on the ,sabbath1 over which   
cardinals themselves preside4  ,and in  
,madrid1 after mass is over1 the  ,queen
 of ,spain1 surrounded by multitudes of 
her people1 is present at the  cruel and
 revolting bull-fight4    ,and thus it  
is everywhere the spirit of ,popery to  
mutilate the ,sabbath4  ,if it be said  
this laxity prevails also in ,protestant

 countries of the  continent1 for this a
 twofold reason may be assigned3--first1
 because the  ,german ,reformers1 not   
excepting ,luther himself1 gave an      
uncertain sound  on the obligations of  
the ,sabbath1 and retained so much of   
the system  they had abandoned as to    
leave to their countrymen a low and     
imperfect  standard of ,sabbath         
observance2 and1 above all1 because the 
spirit of the  ,reformation is dead in  
,germany1 ,rationalism has taken the    
place of  ,evangelism1 and 8the salt has
 lost its savour40  ,it is encouraging  
to  know that1 wherever evangelical     
truth has been revived on the continent1
  there also is waking up a             
corresponding zeal for the              
sanctification of  the ,lord's day4     
,popery1 then1 has always robbed ,god of
 half his own day2 and wherever  this   
sacrilege is perpetrated1 ,his judgments
 have been poured forth4  ,as  is       
attested by the history of ,israel in   
the days of old1 as well as by  that of 

,france1 and ,italy1 and ,spain1 and of 
our own country in the days  of the     
,stuarts1 when semi-,popery tyrannised  
over its victims in the  oppression and 
murder of the ,covenanters of ,scotland 
and of the ,puritans  of ,england1 when 
the first ,charles perished on the      
scaffold after long  and bloody civil   
wars1 and the second ,charles1 7whose   
personal profligacy  almost corrupted a 
whole nation1 and who1 as ,pepys so     
graphically  records17 was smitten by   
the hand of death as he sat1 surrounded 
by his  paramours1 at the               
gambling-table1 on the ,sabbath eve1 in 
8that glorious  gallery0 of ,whitehall  
,palace2 in the judgments that came upon
 dynasties  and nations1 as such1 at    
these and other periods in connexion    
with  ,sabbath desecration--we are      
forcibly reminded that the 8,lord of the
  ,sabbath day10 seated at the ,father's
 right hand1 can1 as the divine word  so
 awfully expresses it1 8strike through  
kings in the day of ,his wrath10  and   

8dash0 ,his enemies 8in pieces like a   
potter's vessel40    ,the whole         
,sabbath1 then1 belongs to ,god2 we     
claim the whole of it for the  concerns 
of the soul and of eternity1 and any    
secular infringement of it  must be an  
act of rebellion against the sovereignty
 of the ,most ,high4    ,,iv4  ,the     
,sabbath law admits of no compromise    
either with the claims of  covetousness 
on the one hand1 or of sinful pleasure  
on the other4  ,not  with covetousness1 
for it is written1 8,ye cannot serve    
,god and ,mammon40  ,often have such    
compromises been attempted by           
individuals and by  communities1 but    
upon them the ,god of heaven has ever   
frowned4  ,ye  railway directors1 who   
overwhelm with a storm of ridicule the  
faithful  few who oppose the running of 
trains on the ,sabbath day1 what 8fruit 
have  ye had0 even as to success in your
 speculations8  ,ye 8looked for much1   
and lo6 it came to little20 and 8why80  
saith the ,lord of ,hosts2 8because  ,i 

did blow upon it40  ,and are there now  
men who1 while they call their  palace  
8the people's palace10 and themselves   
8the poor man's friends10  yet depend   
mainly on the poor man's shillings to   
swell their dividends8  8,o6 my soul2   
come not thou into their secret1 unto   
their assembly1 mine  honour1 be not    
thou united60    ,neither1 again1 will  
this law of the ,sabbath 8shake hands0  
with those who  8are lovers of pleasure 
more than lovers of ,god40  8,from such0
 an  inspired apostle commands us to    
8turn away40  ,if you consider a whole  
,sabbath spent devoutly 8a weariness10  
and say1 8,when will it be over80--if   
you prove by your practice that your    
attendance on the sanctuary during  one 
part of the ,sabbath is regarded by you 
as a kind of licence to spend  the rest 
of the day in 8doing your own pleasure10
 then be assured that  you furnish a    
fearful evidence that you are destitute 
of the spiritual  tastes of 8the new    
creature10 and that you are still 8in   

the gall of  bitterness and the bond of 
iniquity60  ,and let none say that we   
desire to  make the ,sabbath a day of   
gloom and not of gladness4  ,we desire  
that it  should be consecrated to that  
,god whose 8ways are pleasantness10 and 
because it is 8the day which the ,lord  
hath made0 to exult in its  refreshing  
remembrances1 in its blessed privileges1
 and in its hallowed  anticipations4    
,and thus counting the ,sabbath 8,a     
,,delight10 the ,christian  can exclaim1
                 8,o day most calm and  
bright1      ,the fruit of this1 the    
next world's bud2      ,the endorsement 
of supreme delight      ,writ by a      
,friend1 and with his blood2      ,the  
couch of time2 care's balm and bay2     
,the week were dark but for thy light1  
,thy torch doth show the way60    ,v4   
,there are pleas urged on behalf of this
 movement which demand our  notice4  ,it
 may be said that 8there are already    
laws on the ,statute ,book  which       
license the opening of public-houses1   

the running of railway trains  and of   
steam-boats1 and that the sale of       
,sunday newspapers1 and of a host  of   
penny publications1 many of which are   
most noxious in their tendency1  is also
 sanctioned40  ,we reply that all such  
laws are unholy1 ,popish and  not       
,protestant in their spirit and         
tendency1 and that they directly  assail
 the authority and perpetual obligation 
of the ,divine law which  says1         
8,remember the ,sabbath-day to keep it  
holy40  ,it was in the true  spirit of  
the ,reformation that the ,founders of  
the ,church of ,england  instructed the 
minister to rehearse publicly the fourth
 commandment1 and  the people to        
respond1 8,lord1 have mercy upon us1 and
 incline our hearts  to keep this law40 
,it was not from ,puritanical strictness
 or ,scottish  bigotry1 so called1 but  
because the ,bible was their pole-star1 
and the  glory of ,god their aim1 that  
the ,assembly of ,divines at            
,westminster1 in  their 8,shorter       

,catechism10 taught the child to say1   
8,the ,sabbath is to be  sanctified by a
 holy resting all that day1 even from   
such recreations  and employments as are
 lawful on other days1 and the spending 
the whole  time in the public and       
private exercise of ,god's worship1     
except so much  as shall be taken up in 
the works of necessity and mercy40      
,but we may be told1 again1 that 8the   
,sabbath is a ,jewish institution40  ,we
 marvel that any should practically     
forget that the law of the ,sabbath     
occupied a place on those tables of     
stone on which the ,great ,lawgiver     
inscribed a law with ,his own finger1   
which had nothing ceremonial1  ,jewish1 
or national in their aspect1 which was  
constituted for all time1  and which the
 ,great ,author of the ,new ,testament  
dispensation declared  that ,he 8came   
not to destroy1 but to fulfil40  ,no    
merely ceremonial  institution1 no      
8positive0 and transitory law1 could    
have had penalties  so awful1 or        

blessings so precious annexed to it1 as 
we find attached to  the ,sabbath1 and  
that before the advent of the ,messiah1 
and throughout  the whole course of     
,jewish national history4  ,born as the 
institution  itself was1 so to speak1 in
 ,paradise2 recognised by patriarchs    
from ,noah  onward1 as indicated by the 
division of time into weeks2 lost and   
trampled down under the hoof of slavery 
in ,egypt 7as it has ever been  where   
slavery has prevailed71 but experiencing
 a resurrection in the  wilderness1     
where ,israel was free to serve and     
sacrifice1 to worship and  give praise  
to their fathers' ,god--,sinai's        
thunders but gave awful  sanction and   
permanent establishment to a 8law0 which
 from the beginning  had its moral      
claims over the whole race1 and which1  
irrespective of all  typical            
institutions1 was intended for the race 
as such1 and was thus  emphatically     
8,,made ,,for ,,man40    ,under the     
,christian dispensation1 the seventh    

portion of time is still  consecrated to
 ,god1 the change of the day but adding 
a higher and holier  lustre and sanction
 to the ,sabbath than it ever possessed 
before1 because  it commemorates the    
resurrection of ,him by whom ,paradise  
is to be  restored1 and who has declared
 from ,his throne1 8,behold1 ,i make all
  things new40  ,his own example and    
that of ,his ,apostles1 as well as of   
the  churches formed by them1 and the   
honour put on 8the ,queen of days0 7as  
,justin ,martyr calls it71 by the       
primitive ,church1 reminds us that the  
,lord's-day claims our homage1 our      
devout and holy observance1 too2  and   
that just in proportion as we hallow it1
 shall we 8sanctify the ,lord  ,god in  
our hearts10 and conform our practice to
 the pristine model of all  that is     
8pure1 and lovely1 and of good report10 
as well as bring down  upon our families
 and upon our country the blessing of   
,him who is the  ,governor of nations4  
,no human government1 no earthly ruler1 

therefore1  can set aside1 or abrogate1 
or modify the requirements of this law1 
so as  to limit its sacred hours        
virtually to the half of the scriptural 
standard1 without pouring contempt on   
the very statute-book of ,heaven6    ,it
 may be further said that1 under the    
,gospel ,dispensation1 8the  strictness 
of its observance is relaxed because    
capital punishment is not  to be        
inflicted on its transgressors1 as of   
old40  ,we reply that1 in the  instance 
cited1 capital punishment was inflicted 
under a theocracy 7by  ,god ,himself1 as
 the ,,immediate ,,governor of ,israel71
 and that this was an  emblem of that   
sore and everlasting punishment--that   
death eternal1 which  will surely       
overtake the impenitent transgressors of
 the ,sabbath4    ,again3 the apologist 
for the relaxation of ,sabbath          
observance may take  shelter under the  
authority of the ,apostle to the        
,gentiles1 and plead  that we are free  
to act as we please1 because ,paul says1

 8,one man  esteemeth one day above     
another1 another esteemeth every day    
alike4  ,let  every man be fully        
persuaded in his own mind40  ,but we    
reply1 that this  passage has special   
reference to the feast days1 which some 
,jewish  converts to ,christianity      
thought binding1 and others did not2 and
 which  the ,apostle1 in a catholic     
spirit1 left to the discretion of each  
individual1 as conscience might dictate4
  ,in the same spirit he says to  the   
,colossians1 8,let no man judge you in  
meat or in drink1 or in respect  of an  
holy day1 or of the new moon1 or of the 
,sabbath days1 which are a  shadow of   
things to come1 but the body is         
,christ40  ,now1 the ,sabbath days  here
 mentioned as not imperatively binding  
were the seventh-day  ,sabbaths1 and not
 the first day of the week1 the         
,christian ,sabbath1  commemorative of  
the ,new ,creation1 when ,god the ,son  
finished the work  of ,redemption1 as   
,god the ,father on the seventh day     

ended the works which  ,he had made4    
,and here an objector may say1 8if the  
command is to be strictly  fulfilled1   
the seventh day should be observed40    
,that such an objection  should be put  
forward by any professing ,christian is 
indeed strange4  ,for  the change from  
the seventh to the first day of the     
week1 we have the  example of ,christ   
and the ,apostles1 and the command is in
 spirit and in  truth obeyed by         
dedicating to the service of ,god a     
seventh portion of  time1 that portion  
in the ,christian ,church being the     
first day of the  week4  ,in point of   
fact1 it is impossible that identically 
the same hours  can be set apart for    
,sabbath observance in every part of the
 world4  ,the  sun that sets on         
,calcutta rises on the towers of        
,quebec4  ,if two ships  leave ,england1
 and sail round the globe by different  
routes1 they will  have lost a day in   
their reckoning2 the seventh day of the 
one will be  the first of the other4    

,but amidst these variations1 arising   
from the  earth's motion1 the ,sabbath  
remains an immutable institute and      
ordinance  of ,heaven4  ,it still       
continues of ,divine authority and of   
perpetual  obligation4  ,under the      
gospel it is accompanied with fresh     
claims on our  reverence and regard1 and
 it is set apart under the most solemn  
sanctions  for the worship of ,jehovah's
 name4    ,further1 it may be pleaded   
that 8it is unjust for those who have   
leisure  and opportunity during the     
week1 to object to the opening of the   
,crystal  ,palace on part of the        
,sabbath1 while the masses have no other
 season for  relaxation from daily toil1
 or for inspecting the wonders of nature
 and  art40  ,still we urge the command1
 8,remember the ,sabbath-day to keep it 
holy40  ,the day1 the whole day1 belongs
 to ,god2 and he has solemnly said1  8,i
 hate robbery for burnt offering40  ,the
 ,lord of the ,sabbath day has  declared
 that 8the ,sabbath was made for        

man0--yes1 and emphatically for  the    
poor man4  ,it is his1 as an immortal   
and responsible being1 and his  devout  
observance of it can alone make it to   
him a blessing and not a  curse4  ,it is
 thus that the poor of this world are to
 be made 8rich in  faith1 and heirs of  
the kingdom which ,god hath promised to 
them that love  ,him40  ,in the estimate
 of ,god1 one day in seven is not too   
much for  either poor or rich to prepare
 for eternity4    ,but in truth this    
plea is the subterfuge of eager         
covetousness4  ,while we  honour the    
character and labours of many ,christian
 philanthropists among  our merchants   
and men of business1 it cannot be denied
 that this is a  mammon-getting age1 and
 that it is culpably careless of the    
poor4  ,we  desire and plead for fresh  
air and relaxation for the poor4  ,but  
it is  not by this new plan they can be 
rightfully secured4  ,let us see the    
poor  man's home made comfortable and   
cleanly2 let us cheer on the            

philanthropic labours of                
,sabbath-schools1 ,ragged-schools1 and  
,city  missions2 let us have our        
workmen's wages paid on ,friday1 and not
 at  public-houses2 and 7as was once the
 case in ,scotland1 under the sanction  
alike of custom and of law7 let labour  
cease early on ,saturday afternoon4     
,the poor man will thus have ample      
leisure furnished him to survey the     
works of nature1 or the wonders of art1 
and breathe the fresh air4  ,let  this  
be as the preparation for the ,sabbath1 
on whose enclosure neither  labour nor  
pleasure may intrude1 because it is     
8holy ground40    ,another plea remains 
to be considered4  8,the tendency of    
this exhibition  7it is said7 will be to
 elevate and purify the mind4  ,art1 and
 science1  and taste1 will educate and  
reform2 they will empty the             
public-houses1  and wean the people from
 gross indulgence40  ,still1 we say1 the
 day is  ,god's1 and we are not to do   
evil that good may come4  ,shut up the  

public  houses1 and they cannot be      
filled4  ,close those railways1 and stop
 those  steam-boats from plying the     
river1 which now allure multitudes from 
the  house of ,god on the ,sabbath4     
,let us abolish unscriptural laws1      
instead  of filling up the measure of   
our iniquity by a crowning act of guilt4
  8,the sights of the ,crystal ,palace  
will educate and purify60  ,why1 when   
vice loses its grossness1 has it        
necessarily lost its power8  ,is it true
  that statuary and painting1 and works 
of art and genius1 can refine and       
regenerate men8  ,in their own place we 
despise them not4  ,they bring  honour  
to the great ,creator1 who is the source
 of all excellence in  genius and skill4
  ,but they cannot change the heart1 or 
quicken the  conscience1 or prepare for 
eternity4  ,and be assured1 that if the 
,crystal  ,palace be opened on the      
,lord's day1 and fifty or sixty thousand
  spectators be admitted1 the nation's  
morality will be undermined more  surely

 and more rapidly than ever it was      
before4  ,what though the use of        
spirituous liquors be strictly          
prohibited within the grounds1          
facilities for obtaining drink without  
will increase on every hand4  ,sunday   
trading will receive a fresh impetus1   
and the afternoon spent by  tens of     
thousands in these excursions of        
pleasure1 our churches will be  emptied 
and our domestic circles broken up2     
while1 in the train of these  evils1    
personal demoralization will inevitably 
follow4  ,in this downward  career we   
may1 ere long1 descend to the position  
of ,france4  ,there public  galleries   
are thrown open on the ,sabbath1 and the
 multitude stands  entranced in         
admiration before the sculptures and the
 paintings of the  great masters of art4
  ,but this people1 so polished1 and so 
joyous1 are  strangers to that          
deep-toned earnestness and gravity which
 makes a nation  great through the      
inspiring hopes of a life immortal and  

divine2--they are  8filled with all     
unrighteousness10 and1 in times of      
political excitement1  amid scenes of   
cruelty and savage violence1 they give  
awful proof that  8they have no fear of 
,god before their eyes40    ,the new    
,crystal ,palace1 now in progress in the
 neighbourhood of this  metropolis1 is  
to be a spacious temple1 dedicated to   
science and art1 in  which all that is  
ingenious and beautiful and rare may be 
exhibited for  the improvement and      
intellectual gratification of the       
people4  ,this is an  object which      
assuredly every enlightened ,christian  
would applaud and  approve1 if confined 
within the limits which ,scripture      
prescribes4  ,we  consider it most      
desirable that facilities should be     
afforded to our  population devoutly to 
contemplate the works of ,god1 as in    
glory and  beauty they have sprung from 
his plastic hand1 and to survey the     
marvellous productions of that genius   
and skill of which ,he is the ,divine   

original4  ,we believe1 science and     
learning and art1 even now1 are so  many
 pioneers preparing the way of the      
,lord2 and that at the period when  the 
religion of the cross shall triumph1    
they will bring all their  trophies and 
lay them down at ,emmanuel's feet4      
,but1 my brethren1 before  that day can 
come1 science1 genius1 learning1 and    
art1 must be 8baptized  and sanctified30
 they must be subordinated to the       
progress of the  ,redeemer's kingdom4   
,and sure ,i am1 that if they are put in
 the place of  religion--if they are    
brought into collision with1 and        
antagonism to a law  that is alike      
immutable and divine--if they arrogate  
to themselves half  the day which       
belongs exclusively and entirely to ,him
 who is ,lord of the  ,sabbath--if1 in  
the language of impious presumption1    
they say1 8we have a  fane as holy as   
the ,christian temple--our claims to    
impart instruction are  equal to those  
who preach the gospel to the poor1 and  

who speak of death  and judgment1 of    
heaven and hell0--then1 ,i say1 science 
however profound1  genius however       
soaring1 art however exquisitely        
skilful1 put forward  blasphemous       
claims2 and if we1 as a nation1 from    
deference to their  pretensions1        
sanction the public profanation of any  
portion of the  ,sabbath1 8our root     
shall be as rottenness1 and our blossom 
shall go up as  dust1 because we shall  
have cast away the law of the ,lord of  
,hosts1 and  despised the word of the   
,holy ,one of ,israel40    ,but it may  
be further said1 8that the working      
classes should not be  debarred from    
bodily rest and relaxation on the       
,lord's day40  ,we  cheerfully grant it2
 but we deny that the opponents of the  
opening of the  ,crystal ,palace on the 
,sabbath seek to deprive the working man
 of his  ,sabbath's bodily rest from    
toil4  ,how great the difference between
 the  two classes of working men--those 
who 8rest according to the commandment10

  who repair in clean and decent garb to
 the house of ,god morning and  evening1
 and spend the intervals of public      
worship in reading and  meditation1 or  
in the instruction of the young4  ,we   
ask you by personal  examination to     
contrast the refreshment both of mind   
and body with which  this class return  
to their work on ,monday morning1 with  
the jaded  spirits1 the shattered nerves
 of the frequenters of steam-boats1 the 
occupants of excursion-trains1 the      
patrons of the tea-garden and the       
public-house1 who go back to labour     
unrefreshed and unblessed1 and too      
often the victims of surfeiting1        
drunkenness1 and riotous excess4  ,and  
are we to be told that such an argument 
is invalid in the present case1  because
 no spirituous liquors are to be sold   
within the park or the  palace on the   
,lord's day2 when 7as present           
preparations without the  walls clearly 
indicate7 we know that the gin-palace   
and the public-house  will thrive and   

prosper on the traffic of multitudes who
 will enter them  first and visit them  
last1 and without whose unhallowed      
stimulants  the sculpture1 the flowers1 
and the fountains would lose half their 
charms8    ,and1 moreover1 instead of   
,sabbath rest1 will not the opening of  
this  building on the ,lord's day lead  
to a vast increase of ,sabbath labour8  
,must there not be a large addition to  
the staff of railway officials1 as  well
 as of police1 required1 not only on the
 main line of traffic1 but  also to     
attend to1 to accommodate1 or to keep in
 order the multitudes  who1 by          
excursion-trains on other lines1 will   
fill our streets and crowd  our public  
vehicles on their way to this scene of  
profanation8    ,and now1 let me        
conclude by calling on all ,christians  
to come forward  without delay1 and to  
raise a loud1 united1 and solemn protest
 against  this iniquitous project4      
,if this ,protestant nation speak out   
boldly and decidedly1 we do not see     

that any ,minister of the ,crown will   
despise the remonstrance and the        
warning4  ,and1 most of all1 we are     
strong in the confidence1 that if the   
real tendency of this measure is fully  
explained to our gracious ,queen1  and  
if she find that it is disapproved of   
and abjured by the great  religious     
bodies of the empire1 she will not      
rashly imperil our safety1  or be the   
instrument of establishing a ,popish and
 a divided ,sabbath4    ,can we1 ,i ask1
 afford to despise the authority of the 
,supreme ,ruler of  the ,universe8  ,if 
,he has visited us already with famine  
and pestilence1  two of ,his 8sore      
judgments10 why may ,he not1 if we      
persist in rebelling  with a high hand1 
permit us to know1 also1 the horrors of 
8war10 and that  from the presence of an
 invading foe8  ,there may be some who  
trust with  confidence to our wooden    
walls and to our disciplined armies2 but
 we1  even while remembering their past 
achievements and undying renown1 dare   

not do so4  ,if the present ruler of    
,france has boldly resolved to  imitate1
 step by step1 the policy of his great  
and ambitious uncle2 and  if1 as is     
confidently said1 he cherishes with     
bitter hate the memory of  the bloody   
field where the star of ,napoleon's     
destiny set for ever2 who  can tell 7if 
we provoke ,god to desert us7 whether he
 may not be permitted  to make an       
assault on our island home1 which for a 
time would paralyse  our commerce1      
outrage our liberties1 and stain the    
pride of our boasting  confidence in the
 sight of the whole world8    ,may that 
,god1 before whom our fathers did walk1 
save us from the guilt  which would draw
 down ,his vengeance4  ,may ,he increase
 among us the number  of those whose    
patriotism is animated and directed by  
,christian  principle4  ,may ,he give   
8peace in our borders1 and fill us with 
the  finest of the wheat40  ,may ,he be 
8a wall of fire around us1 and the glory
  in the midst60  ,may he give us grace 

as a nation so to keep ,his own ,day1   
that we may reap the blessing with which
 he has promised to crown its  faithful 
observance3        8,,if ,,thou ,,turn  
,,away ,,thy ,,foot ,,from ,,the        
,,sabbath1 ,,from ,,doing ,,thy         
,,pleasure      ,,on ,,my ,,holy ,,day2 
,,and ,,call ,,the ,,sabbath ,a         
,,delight1 ,,the ,,holy ,,of ,,the      
,,lord1      ,,honourable2 ,,and ,,shalt
 ,,honour ,,him1 ,,not ,,doing ,,thine  
,,own ,,ways1 ,,nor      ,,finding      
,,thine ,,own ,,pleasure1 ,,nor         
,,speaking ,,thine ,,own ,,words3 ,,then
 ,,shalt      ,,thou ,,delight ,,thyself
 ,,in ,,the ,,lord2 ,,and ,i ,,will     
,,cause ,,thee ,,to ,,ride ,,upon       
,,the ,,high ,,places ,,of ,,the        
,,earth1 ,,and ,,feed ,,thee ,,with     
,,the ,,heritage ,,of      ,,jacob1     
,,thy ,,father3 ,,for ,,the ,,mouth ,,of
 ,,the ,,lord ,,hath ,,spoken           
,,it40--,isa4      ,,lviii4 #ac1 #ad4   
,,note4      ,the ,rev4 ,d4 ,moore1 in a
 note to his sermon 8,our ,sabbaths in  

,danger10  quotes the following         
statement1 supplied to him from a source
 which may  be 8implicitly relied       
on40--8,there are no less than seven    
public-houses  now in course of         
erection1 or about to be erected1 near  
the ,crystal  ,palace1 one of which is  
to cost #cj1jjj1 and to contain stabling
 for #ejj  horses1 tea-gardens1 c4  ,the
 road leading from ,anerly is literally 
thronged from ten to six o'clock every  
,sunday1 and persons of all grades  are 
to be seen there1 some selling by the   
way side1 others gambling2 and  in the  
roads on either sides of the way scenes 
of the most revolting  nature are taking
 place in open daylight4    8,a         
labouring man1 some two or three months 
since1 took a small cottage  and large  
garden in the ,anerly road1 and opened  
it as a beer-house and  tea-gardens1 and
 he now has from four to five hundred   
persons in his  ground on the ,sabbath  
day4  ,many more particulars of a like  
kind might be  added1 but with great    

difficulty1 owing to the secrecy        
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