Transcribed from the 1852 Wertheim and Macintosh edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Pamphlet cover] OUR SABBATHS IN DANGER: A SERMON, DEPRECATING THE CONTEMPLATED OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE ON THE LORD’S-DAY, PREACHED ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1852, IN CAMDEN CHURCH, CAMBERWELL. BY DANIEL MOORE, M.A., INCUMBENT. * * * * * LONDON: WERTHEIM AND MACINTOSH, 24, PATERNOSTER-ROW. G. W. MEDES, CAMBERWELL. 1852. * * * * * WERTHEIM AND MACINTOSH, 24, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON. * * * * * A SERMON. MARK II. 27:—“And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” THE discriminating symptoms of hypocrisy or profaneness in a nation, it has been well said, are, that, by the one, outward ordinances are raised to an exaggerated importance; by the other, they are disparaged, depressed, and set at nought. In the words just quoted, the aim of our Lord appears to have been to put these institutions in their right place,—to enunciate a great principle, by which we could always distinguish between certain moral ends for which _man was made_, and certain outward appointments which were instituted and _made for man_. To obey God, to resist evil, to fulfil a providential designation, to strive after nearer conformity to the Divine image, to fit and capacitate the soul for a higher condition of being, these are ends,—man was _made for these_. But holy times, pious commemorations, solemn assemblies, the temples where we worship, and the sacraments whereof we eat, these are only subsidiary and divinely appointed means; they are not among the final objects of man’s creation. They were ordinances _wade for man_.