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Not the Fourth Commandment but the law of nature enjoins

public worship,

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The law of nature prescribes also rural recreation on Sundays

to the inhabitants of towns,

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Health conducive to happiness and virtue,

The province of the clergy declared by Bishop Butler to be

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virtue and religion, life and manners,

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Disingenuous subscription of Articles of Faith,
Protestant intolerance,

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Knox's Confession abandoned by the Scottish Puritans 200
years ago May not, and ought not, we to abandon theirs?
Protestantism a protest against the principle of authority in

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No opinions can much longer survive, unless capable of stand-

ing the test of reason and morality,

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Probability that among the notions about to be generally
abandoned, is belief in the obligation of the Fourth
Commandment upon Gentile Christians,

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The clergy, railway-servants, and others who work on Sunday,
should rest on another day,

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Admirable provision made for the health of the work-people
of Price's Patent Candle Company, London,

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Repose needed by mental as well as bodily labourers,
Importance of physiology as a branch of general education,
Bad effects of keeping people (especially children) within doors
on Sundays,

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Sunday's leisure needed for intellectual cultivation,
And for the enlivenment of the social and religious affections,
Natural grounds of public worship,

Active recreation needful, as well as rest,

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The Mosaic Sabbath long continued to be observed by Hebrew
Christians,

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But the general opinion in the early Church was, that all the
Mosaic ordinances were abolished,

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The Lord's Day not then identified with the Sabbath,
Afterwards it was figuratively so called,

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Origin of observance of the Lord's Day, and ancient mode of keeping it,

Doctrine of the Church of England respecting it,

How the Fourth Commandment attained its prominent posi

tion in modern times,

Views of St Augustine and the Schoolmen about the Sab

bath,

Views of Continental Reformers,
Views of English Reformers,

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Effect of placing the Fourth Commandment in the English
Liturgy, A. D. 1552,

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The first Confession of the Church of Scotland free from Sab

batarianism,

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Till the close of the 16th century, Sabbatarian practice exceptional in England,

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Seventh-day Sabbatarians in the reigns of James I. and
Charles I.,

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Sunday recreations in Scotland during the latter half of the

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Punishment of Sabbath-breaking by the Kirk-sessions,

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Prohibition of walking and other modes of recreation on the

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Great and sudden calamities viewed by the ignorant as pun

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Dr Cook's uncandid observations on the Book of Sports,
Southey's accurate representation of the case,

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Controversies excited by the republication of the Book of
Sports in the reign of Charles I.,

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Opinion preferred by the Westminster Assembly, and handed down as 66 God's truth" to us,

Leading varieties of opinion then maintained about the Sabbath,

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Folly and arrogance of imposing it as such upon those who regard it as error,

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How far do apostolic precepts and practice bind us?

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Tyrannical legislation of the Puritans for Sabbath-observance, 331

Their ordinance in 1647 for the abolition of Church-festivals, Page 332
English Acts of Parliament for the observance of Sunday,
Sabbath-observance after the Restoration,

In the eighteenth century,

Influence of the French Revolution in reviving Puritanism in
Britain,

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Efforts of the Church of Scotland since 1794 for the promo

tion of Sabbath-observance,

Old Scottish Acts of Parliament and of Assembly,
Hell-fire threatened by the Assembly in 1834 for walking in

the fields and taking recreation on Sundays,
Sir Andrew Agnew's agitation for the better observance of the
Sabbath,

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Report of his Committee of the House of Commons in 1832,
Duty of the Legislature in regard to the Sabbath,
Sabbath-breaking said to be the first step to crime,

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Opinions of the Bishop of London and Sir R. Peel on Sabbath

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Alleged necessity of "protection" to traders and servants, "Weak brethren" have duties as well as rights,

Popular objection that Sir Andrew proposed to interfere with

Cases of a barber's apprentice and a Sunday steamboat at
Dundee,

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Discussion on Sir Andrew's Bill at his moving its second read

ing,

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His policy of reiteration,

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Debates on the Bill in 1837, when its second reading was for

the first time carried,

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Elation of the Sabbatarians at so large a measure of success,
Sudden and "inscrutable" termination of Sir Andrew's career

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as a legislator,

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His subsequent ubiquitous activity out of Parliament,
Agitation under his auspices against Sunday trains,

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How success was suddenly achieved in the case of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway,

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"The eyes of all God-fearing people" turned thereupon to "the wonder-working hand of the Almighty,"

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Dr Arnold's opposition to "all God-fearing people,"

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How do the Sabbatarians know upon what special occasions miracles are wrought for them?

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Baxter's rebuke of the modern Pharisees,

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Selden, Bishop Newton, Dr Chalmers, and Samuel Butler,

quoted to the like effect,

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Agitation against Sunday-labour in the Post-office,

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Agitation about the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sunday, Page 371
Resolutions of meetings of working-men in London,
Chimerical fears for the safety of the Lord's Day,

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NOTE G.-CLERICAL DOGMATISM AND LAY SERVILITY, 373

Natural grounds of authority and obedience,

The love of power too weak in some, and too strong in others,
Utility of that affection, and of the passions in general,
Consequences of excessive love of power, epecially in the ig-
norant,

The clerical station conducive to growth of self-complacency
and love of power,

Arrogance of the Romish priesthood,

Liability of Protestants to belie their principles by a tacit assumption of infallibility,

Treatment of Jews, Dissenters, Roman Catholics, Deists, and

Atheists in Protestant Communities,

Popish spirit of the Reformers,

"Authority in matters of faith" claimed by the Church of

England,

Authority of the Church of Scotland,

Baxter's recommendation of humility to the clergy,

Ridiculous figure made by them when they carry pulpit-airs

of superiority into secular life,

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Advice given them by Sharon Turner and Bishop Watson,
Servility to the clergy a prevalent vice among laymen,
Dr Chalmers' rebuke of this and other Popish vices, to his

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congregation in Glasgow,

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Servile deference to human systems of theology,

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proper influence of the clergy lessened by their own slavery
to Articles and Confessions of Faith,

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Other bad effects of subscription of Articles,

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Corporate and party ties impair the influence of clerical teach

ing and advocacy,

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It is diminished also by their exposure to "pressure from with-
out," applied by weak and ignorant devotees,
Urgent solicitation of the clergy by the Sabbath Alliance,
Disingenuous timidity of learned theologians,

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Necessity of candour in the present age of free inquiry,
Source of clerical antagonism to secular instruction,
Short-sighted impolicy of this opposition,

Improvement of the American clergy consequent on the edu

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They still, however, suppress known truth in deference to the
prejudices of the ignorant,

Imperfection of religious liberty in the United States,
National education the remedy,

Necessity of unfettering the clergy in Great Britain, in order
to make them cordial friends of popular education,
Their character must deteriorate, unless the present tests be
relaxed,

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Demoralizing tendency of disingenuous subscription of Articles

of Faith,

Other evils from the practice of subscription,

Creeds and Confessions fathered by Baxter on the devil,

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NOTE H.-WHAT ARE THE FEELINGS AND OPINIONS
OF THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE" IN REGARD TO SUN-
DAY TRAINS?

Professed inducement of the Directors of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway to their Sabbatarian proceedings,
Instructive discussion at a meeting of the Edinburgh, Perth,
and Dundee Railway Company, in March 1853,
Indications of public opinion through the press, Town Coun-
cils, and Mr Blackadder's canvass for a civic honour in
Edinburgh,

Appeal to the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company

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Mr Joseph Locke's Bill in 1849, to secure to the public on
Sundays a limited and reasonable use of railways,

Speeches of Mr Labouchere,

Speeches of Sir G. Grey, and Messrs Wortley, Ellice, and

Aglionby,

Speeches of Sir F. Buxton and Mr H. Drummond,

The principles of the question discussed,

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Vote-manufacture carried on by the Sabbatarians in Railway

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Speeches of Mr Hume and Lord Advocate Rutherfurd, Ground of Mr Labouchere's hostile vote: That the measure was offensive to the feelings of a large body of the Scottish people,

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The Sabbatarians much more noisy than powerful in Scotland, 409-10
Legislation now proved to be imperatively necessary,
Selden on the pious shift of escaping from contracts by the aid
of Scripture,

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NOTE J.-PROPOSED STANDING COMMITTEE FOR THE
LICENCE OF SUNDAY TRAVELLERS,

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The proposal publicly and seriously made, that a Committee of
Saints should be established for this purpose,
Scotland has need of a Burns,

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NOTE K.-THE CAUSES AND CURE OF DRUNKENNESS, First cause-morbid propensity for intoxicating liquor, Second cause-defective nutrition, accompanied by hard labour, Third cause a flow of exuberant spirits in want of an outlet,

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