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    • SUNDAY-TRADING-SUPPRESSION SOCIETY.
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      Deeply impressed as we are with a sense of the importance of a Sabbath , or day of rest , for all persons , and especially for the labouring and trading portion of the -community , yet are we by no means satisfied with some of the positions assumed by the above-named Society . Nor do the ' founders ^ themselves-appear to be

      assured on what ground to take their stand . They at one time speak of divine appointment , and then use expediency as their argument . They now deprecate , and now seek , the interference of the legislature . They have the Bishop of London for their patron , and Sir P . Laurie for their president .

      The following sentence occurs in an address to the clergy , dissenting ministers , &c . which is widely circulated . . ' . '"' . ' " . "¦ " "¦¦ ¦ ""¦ 'The founders of this Society are deeply convinced , that every man on earth to whom the Divine Revelation

      comes , is therein taught and commanded to separate the Sabbath-day to holy uses and ends /; % nd , that individuals f familiesy churches , and nations ^ bring down on themselves the favour or the displeasure of Almighty Gotf , as they obey or disobey this command . ' There is no such command in the

      New Testament . The command in the Old Testament was to the Jews , and for the observance of Saturday . The setting apart of Sunday by

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      Christians , as a day of rest and for moral and religious instruction , stands simply on the ground of expediency ; but expediency so clear and strong to our minds , as to make it a plain duty , just as we hold the reading of the Scriptures to be a plain duty . We do not , however deem either of those duties fulfilled

      by & ceremonial attention to them . They must be performed under a strong conviction that they are means to an end , namely , the progress of the soul towards the full stature of a man in Christ Jesus . In an * Address to Master Traders , ' the committee of the Society say , * The Sabbath is an interval of relaxation from the toils

      and cares of life , absolutely necessary to the full possession of health and spirits , and which every man who values those Blessings . " naturally , desires . It is a period of leisure , essential to the invigoration of the powers of the human mind , and to the enlargement and elevation of the soul ; nor can he who values himself upon his superiority , as a rational being ,

      to : the-brutes that p&rishrand' who desires to maintain that superiority , be for a moment indifferent to its possession and improvement . It is , moreover , a season of tranquillity highly favourable to the cultivation of morality and religion in individuals , in families , and in the nationa season , it is presumed , which every

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      UNITARIAN CHRONICLE , AND COMPANION TO THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY .

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      PUBLISHED BY C . FOX , 67 , PATERNOSTER ROW .

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      No . XIII . ] February , 1833 . [ Price 6 d .

      Sunday-Trading-Suppression Society.

      SUNDAY-TRADING-SUPPRESSION SOCIETY .

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      VOL . II ,

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  • Citation
    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1833, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2607/page/1/