This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...that Luther recommends; for he who for six days of the week has toiled in the close and impure atmosphere of the factory, or pursued his calling within sight of brick walls, "is but recruiting his strength" if he does, as the Doctor says, even " rush out to the country and worship nature." But how little faith in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...that Luther recommends; for he who for six days of the week has toiled in the close and impure atmosphere of the factory, or pursued his calling within sight of brick walls, "is but recruiting his strength" if he does, as the Doctor says, even " rush out to the country and worship nature." But how little faith in the toiling thousands (who desire a change of scene and place, and who may not lose a day in the pursuit of honest industry without the curtailment of some necessity, not luxury), does he exhibit, when in such sweeping and unguarded language he asserts that all such who "rush into the country" do it but "to worship in the grog-shops, at the shanties by the way, promoting employment by the policemen and magistrates?" We are pleased to say that our faith in the sons and daughters of toil is greater than the Doctor's, and fear that those who wish to worship nature in the mode he indicates would in any event seek a gratification of their longings at shrines nearer at hand. Luther says, "As for the Sabbath, or Sunday, there is no necessity for its observance," &c; upon which the Doctor remarks, What does Luther mean? We reply, it is plain enough what he means; but the Doctor replies, that he means "what all evangelical men, clergy and laity, mean, --that the Sabbaths of the Jews (of which five are mentioned in Leviticus xxiii., which are called Sabbaths"), &c, are the Sabbaths to which Luther refers. We recollect but one parallel to this, and that, we fear, is fiction, where a judge, in a celebrated case, not that of Specht versus Commonwealth, which the Doctor cites, insisted that the name of the witness was not as witness had distinctly pronounced it, but as his Honor had written it, a...
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