England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Sunday
This is what Sunday might be made, and what it might be made without
impiety or profanation. The wise and beneficent Creator who places men
upon earth, requires that they shall perform the duties of that station
of life to which they are called, and He can never intend that the more a
man strives to discharge those duties, the more he shall be debarred from
happiness and enjoyment. Let those who have six days in the week for all
the world’s pleasures, appropriate the seventh to fasting and gloom,
either for their own sins or those of other people, if they like to
bewail them; but let those who employ their six days in a worthier
manner, devote their seventh to a different purpose. Let divines set the
example of true morality: preach it to their flocks in the morning, and
dismiss them to enjoy true rest in the afternoon; and let them select for
their text, and let Sunday legislators take for their motto, the words
which fell from the lips of that Master, whose precepts they misconstrue,
and whose lessons they pervert—‘The Sabbath was made for man, and not man
to serve the Sabbath.’
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