A handbook of Freethought : $b containing in condensed and systematized form a vast amount of evidence against the superstitious doctrines of Christianity
Religion
A handbook of Freethought : $b containing in condensed and systematized form a vast amount of evidence against the superstitious doctrines of Christianity
Christianity -- Controversial literature; Free thought
We prize Sunday as a Sabbath or rest day. But it is a physiological
fact that the cessation from action that refreshes or rests
some persons on that day, does not so operate on everybody. We
would that Sunday should be a joy, a delight to all the people;
that every man, woman, and child should anticipate its approach
with pleasure. On that day, if on no other, let the edifices of
the church be open free to all who love its praises, prayers, and
instructions. Let the tables and alcoves of the public library be
accessible to such persons as feel that they can find suitable
mental and spiritual food. If the social science association,
now active in promoting good fellowship and liberal feeling,
desire to, let it also add its proportion of good things to
the feast of the day. Let the art museums, halls of science,
academies of music, public parks, and galleries of paintings
disclose their treasures on Sundays freely to visitors. Let all
persons be unmolested on that day to seek the enjoyment and kind of
rest they may respectively need, they alone being judges thereof,
always provided that no one shall infringe on the equal liberty
of any other person.
"Rest is not quitting
The busy career--
Rest is the fitting
Of self to its sphere;
'Tis loving and serving
The highest and best--
'Tis onward, unswerving,
And that is true rest."
WHAT IS CIVILIZATION?
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