Transcribed from the 1853 George Bell edition by David Price, email ccx074@pgaf.org [Picture: Pamphlet cover] THE SABBATH. * * * * * A SERMON, PREACHED IN HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HURDSFIELD. ON SUNDAY EVENING, JANUARY, 30, 1853, IN REFERENCE TO THE PROPOSED OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE ON THE LORD’S DAY. BY JOHN MARTINDALE FARRAR, M.A., CURATE OF HURDSFIELD. * * * * * LONDON: GEORGE BELL, 186, FLEET STREET. MACCLESFIELD: SWINNERTON AND BROWN. 1853. THE SABBATH. ISAIAH LVIII. 13, 14. “IF THOU TURN AWAY THY FOOT FROM THE SABBATH, FROM DOING THY PLEASURE ON MY HOLY DAY; AND CALL THE SABBATH A DELIGHT, THE HOLY OF THE LORD, HONOURABLE; AND SHALT HONOUR HIM, NOT DOING THINE OWN WAYS, NOR FINDING THINE OWN PLEASURE, NOR SPEAKING THINE OWN WORDS: THEN SHALT THOU DELIGHT THYSELF IN THE LORD; AND I WILL CAUSE THEE TO RIDE UPON THE HIGH PLACES OF THE EARTH, AND FEED THEE WITH THE HERITAGE OF JACOB THY FATHER: FOR THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HATH SPOKEN IT.”