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Our Sabbaths in Danger / A Sermon, deprecating the contemplated opening of the Crystal Palace on the Lord's-Day

Chapter 7: FOOTNOTES.
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The sermon argues for the enduring moral sanctity of the Christian Sabbath, tracing its origin to creation rather than solely to Mosaic law, and explains that later Levitical reasons were re‑promulgations and memorials for Israel. It balances warnings against both legalistic ceremonialism and profanation, contending the day was instituted for human spiritual and moral ends and must not be trivialized. Drawing on scripture and pastoral reasoning, the preacher rejects proposals to open major public entertainments on the Lord's Day and urges preservation of holy time as a means of spiritual formation and communal reverence.

 
 

Wertheim and Macintosh, 24, Paternoster-row, London.

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FOOTNOTES.

[5]  Lesson for the day, Ezek. xx., comp. verses 12, 13, 16, 20, 21, and 24.

[21]  See Note A at the end.

[25]  The following statement, supplied to me from a private source which may be implicitly relied on, will sufficiently justify several of the foregoing remarks:—

“There are no less than seven public-houses now in course of erection, or about to be erected, near the Crystal Palace, one of which is to cost £30,000, and to contain stabling for 500 horses, tea-gardens, &c.  The road leading from Anerly is literally thronged from ten to six o’clock every Sunday, and persons of all grades are to be seen there, some selling by the wayside, others gambling; and in the roads on either sides of the way scenes of the most revolting nature are taking place in open daylight.

“A labouring man, some two or three months since, took a small cottage and large garden in the Anerly road, and opened it as a beer-house and tea-gardens, and he now has from four to five hundred persons in his ground on the Sabbath day.  Many more particulars of a like kind might be added, but with great difficulty, owing to the secrecy observed by all parties.”

[27]  See Note B at the end.