The World's Rest-day: Being an Account of the Thirteenth International Congress on the Lord's Day, Held at Edinburgh, 6th to 8th October 1908Robert Mackenzie (M.A.) |
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amusement asked Association Belgium blessing cause Christ Christian Church of England Church of Scotland City classes Committee Continent Council day in seven day of rest day's rest delegates duty Edinburgh employees England fourth commandment France Geneva GEORGE SMART give glad Glasgow holy honour industrial interest International Congress International Federation keep labour on railways land large number League London Lord Kinnaird Lord Provost Lord's Day Rest meetings ment mind nation necessity obligation Open Conference organised Parliament persons physical pleasure prayer President Professor public-houses Pyrenées realise recreation regard RELATIONS OF LORD'S religion and morals religious rest and worship rest in seven Sabbatarianism Sabbath Day Sabbath observance Sabbath Rest sacred Saturday Scottish Secretary shareholders Society spiritual St Andrews Links Sunday closing Sunday labour Sunday Lay Movement Sunday Observance Sunday rest Switzerland tion Vaud Waldensians week Weekly Rest wish workers
Popular passages
Page 32 - 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...
Page 125 - 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.
Page 12 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Page 29 - For right is right, since God is God ; And right the day must win ; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin ! FREDERIC WILLIAM FABER.
Page 265 - Act, he shall be entitled upon information duly laid by him to have any other person whom he charges as the actual offender brought before the court at the time appointed for hearing the charge; and if, after the commission of the offence has been proved, the...
Page 58 - Therefore it is that we are not poorer but richer, because we have, through many ages, rested from our labour one day in seven. That day is not lost. While industry is suspended, while the plough lies in the furrow, while the Exchange is silent, while no smoke ascends from the factory...
Page 95 - Of all Divine institutions, the most Divine is that which secures a day of rest for man. I hold it to be the most valuable blessing ever conceded to man. It is the corner-stone of civilisation, and its removal might even affect the health of the people.
Page 44 - While industry is suspended, while the plough lies in the furrow, while the lixchange is silent, while no smoke ascends from the factory, a process is going on quite as important to the wealth of nations as any process which is performed on more busy days.
Page 224 - The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.
Page 98 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do ; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates.