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Updated: May 15, 2025
This the papacy has torn from its place, and erected in its stead, on its own authority, an institution designed to serve another purpose. This change of the fourth commandment must therefore be the change to which the prophecy points; and Sunday-keeping must be the mark of the beast!
But the Sunday-keeping Pilgrims would not enter even into the semblance of trade upon that day, and, although they could not explain the reason to the Indians, made them understand that their dances, their singing, and their gifts, which were of course to be repaid, were all impossible for them to consider upon that day, and that, in fact, the sooner they withdrew from the village the better their hosts would be pleased.
'I have never heard you preach it. You lowered your voice when you denounced the Trinity to me, lest the Christians should hear. 'We have to preach silently, by our example. Merely by keeping our own religion we convert the world. 'But who keeps it? Dispersion among Sunday-keeping peoples makes our very Sabbath an economic impossibility. 'I have not found it so, said Sir Asher crushingly.
So idle as he had been in thinking, so inconclusive, so frail, so subject to gusts of wind, so incapable of following his subject to the end, why had he dared to leave that Sunday-keeping, church-going, domestic, decent life, which would have become one of so ordinary a calibre as himself?
With such an example and teacher of religion before me, whose goodness I did not know, and whose strangeness and preternatural character only I felt; and indeed with all the ideas I got of religion, whether from Sunday-keeping or catechising, my early impressions on that subject could not be happy or winning.
Sunday varies in different households, and I think each girl is bound by her parents' standard in the matter as long as she lives at home; when she marries she should think the matter over and have her own standard. But the root of Sunday-keeping lies in the fact that she must feed the Sunday side of her or it will die; and she should go to Church, once at least, to show her colours.
"Well, now," said Bob, "about this old question of Sunday-keeping, Marianne and I are much divided. I am always for doing something that she thinks isn't the thing." "Well, you see," said Marianne, "Bob is always talking against our old Puritan fathers, and saying all manner of hard things about them. He seems to think that all their ways and doings must of course have been absurd.
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