Household Words, No. 13, June 22, 1850 : $b A weekly journal — John Shaqi
Household Words, No. 13, June 22, 1850 : $b A weekly journal
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Household Words, No. 13, June 22, 1850 : $b A weekly journal
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representation of the people resort, and we shall find them decent,
orderly, quiet, sociable among their families and neighbours. There is a
general feeling of respect for religion, and for religious observances.
The churches and chapels are well filled. Very few people who keep
servants or apprentices, leave out of consideration their opportunities
of attending church or chapel; the general demeanour within those
edifices, is particularly grave and decorous; and the general
recreations without, are of a harmless and simple kind. Lord Brougham
never did Henry Brougham more justice, than in declaring to the House of
Lords, after the success of this motion in the House of Commons, that
there is no country where the Sabbath is, on the whole, better observed
than in England. Let the constituency of Whitened Sepulchres ponder, in
a Christian spirit, on these things; take care of their own consciences;
leave their Honorable Member to take care of his; and let well alone.
For, it is in nations as in families. Too tight a hand in these
respects, is certain to engender a disposition to break loose, and to
run riot. If the private experience of any reader, pausing on this
sentence, cannot furnish many unhappy illustrations of its truth, it is
a very fortunate experience indeed. Our most notable public example of
it, in England, is just two hundred years old.
Lord Ashley had better merge his Pariahs into the body politic; and the
Honorable Member for Whitened Sepulchres had better accustom his
jaundiced eyes to the Sunday sight of dwellers in towns, roaming in
green fields, and gazing upon country prospects. If he will look a
little beyond them, and lift up the eyes of his mind, perhaps he may
observe a mild, majestic figure in the distance, going through a field
of corn, attended by some common men who pluck the grain as they pass
along, and whom their Divine Master teaches that he is the Lord, even of
the Sabbath-Day.
THE YOUNG ADVOCATE.
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