Excerpt from The People's Day: An Appeal to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, Against His Advocacy of a French Sunday When your Lordship has darkened the light of the Sab bath in forty English homes, only the first blow is struck. Your twenty thousand Sunday visitors must, as Mr. Goulburn truly said, come, for the most part, from some distance. To bring them to the spot, many poor servants of van-owners would then find the Lord's day a working day, and, instead of a call toward heaven, a call to barter away home, repose, and ...
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Excerpt from The People's Day: An Appeal to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, Against His Advocacy of a French Sunday When your Lordship has darkened the light of the Sab bath in forty English homes, only the first blow is struck. Your twenty thousand Sunday visitors must, as Mr. Goulburn truly said, come, for the most part, from some distance. To bring them to the spot, many poor servants of van-owners would then find the Lord's day a working day, and, instead of a call toward heaven, a call to barter away home, repose, and religion. Many omnibus men, to whom some mise rable shred of a Sunday morning, for a longer sleep and a leisurely breakfast, had remained as a slender token that God has some care for a poor man, would find even that gone. Probably your Lordship has never heard an omnibus man say, with a jerk of his reins, Us - no one believes as we have got any souls. They give us one Sunday in five, and it is not enough to make up sleep, worked like we are. Gentlemen can afford to have souls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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