Not the Fourth Commandment but the law of nature enjoins public worship, Page 234 The law of nature prescribes also rural recreation on Sundays Health conducive to happiness and virtue, The province of the clergy declared by Bishop Butler to be 235 237 virtue and religion, life and manners, Means of attaining success therein, A Layman's observations on the Crystal Palace, Uniformity of religious opinion impossible, Consequent unreasonableness of persecution, Natural diversity of minds, Beneficial effects of variety of opinion, Disingenuous subscription of Articles of Faith, 239 240 240 242 243 244 251-3 252 254 Knox's Confession abandoned by the Scottish Puritans 200 No opinions can much longer survive, unless capable of stand- 260 New Reformation of Religion now in progress, 261 Encouragement to proceed boldly in the work, 263 Probability that among the notions about to be generally The clergy, railway-servants, and others who work on Sunday, should rest on another day, 270 Admirable provision made for the health of the work-people of Price's Patent Candle Company, London, 270 Repose needed by mental as well as bodily labourers, 272 Importance of physiology as a branch of general education, 273 Bad effects of keeping people (especially children) within doors on Sundays, 275 Sunday's leisure needed for intellectual cultivation, 277 And for the enlivenment of the social and religious affections, The Mosaic Sabbath long continued to be observed by Hebrew 279 But the general opinion in the early Church was, that all the 280 Page 281 281 The Lord's Day not then identified with the Sabbath, Doctrine of the Church of England respecting it, 282 282, 291 tion in modern times, 283, 288 Views of St Augustine and the Schoolmen about the Sab bath, . 284-5 Views of Continental Reformers, Effect of placing the Fourth Commandment in the English 285-7 287-9 289 The first Confession of the Church of Scotland free from Sabbatarianism, 292 Till the close of the 16th century, Sabbatarian practice exceptional in England, Seventh-day Sabbatarians in the reigns of James I. and 297 Sunday recreations in Scotland during the latter half of the Punishment of Sabbath-breaking by the Kirk-sessions, 307 Prohibition of walking and other modes of recreation on the Great and sudden calamities viewed by the ignorant as pun Civil and ecclesiastical regulations for Sabbath-observance in Dr Cook's uncandid observations on the Book of Sports, 317-18 Folly and arrogance of imposing it as such upon those who re gard it as error, 326 Baxter's treatise on the Lord's Day, 327 How far do apostolic precepts and practice bind us? Tyrannical legislation of the Puritans for Sabbath-observance, 328 Their ordinance in 1647 for the abolition of Church-festivals, Page 332 English Acts of Parliament for the observance of Sunday, 333-4 Sabbath-observance after the Restoration, In the eighteenth century, Influence of the French Revolution in reviving Puritanism in Britain, Efforts of the Church of Scotland since 1794 for the promo tion of Sabbath-observance, Old Scottish Acts of Parliament and of Assembly, the fields and taking recreation on Sundays, 335 338-41 339 341 342 Report of his Committee of the House of Commons in 1832, Alleged necessity of "protection" to traders and servants, "Weak brethren" have duties as well as rights, 349 351 Popular objection that Sir Andrew proposed to interfere with the enjoyments of only the poor, 352 Cases of a barber's apprentice and a Sunday steamboat at 353 Discussion on Sir Andrew's Bill at his moving its second read ing, 354 His policy of reiteration, 355 Debates on the Bill in 1837, when its second reading was for the first time carried, 357 Elation of the Sabbatarians at so large a measure of success, 357 as a legislator, 358 His subsequent ubiquitous activity out of Parliament, 358 360 How success was suddenly achieved in the case of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, 361 "The eyes of all God-fearing people" turned thereupon to "the wonder-working hand of the Almighty," Dr Arnold's opposition to "all God-fearing people," 363 miracles are wrought for them? 364 Baxter's rebuke of the modern Pharisees, 365 Selden, Bishop Newton, Dr Chalmers, and Samuel Butler, quoted to the like effect, 365-6 Agitation against Sunday-labour in the Post-office, Agitation about the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sunday, Page 371 371 372 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, The clerical station conducive to growth of self-complacency 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, Advice given them by Sharon Turner and Bishop Watson, 373 373 374 375 376 376 379-81 379 381-2 382 383 383 congregation in Glasgow, 383-5 Servile deference to human systems of theology, 385 The proper influence of the clergy lessened by their own slavery 386 Other bad effects of subscription of Articles, 387 Corporate and party ties impair the influence of clerical teach ing and advocacy, 388 It is diminished also by their exposure to "pressure from with- Necessity of candour in the present age of free inquiry, Improvement of the American clergy consequent on the edu They still, however, suppress known truth in deference to the Imperfection of religious liberty in the United States, Necessity of unfettering the clergy in Great Britain, in order 391 391 392 393 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, Page 397 397 398 NOTE H.-WHAT ARE "THE FEELINGS AND OPINIONS 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 Councils, and Mr Blackadder's canvass for a civic honour in Edinburgh, Appeal to the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company 400 400 400 403 404 NOTE I. THE GROUNDS OF LEGISLATION FOR SUN- 404 Mr Joseph Locke's Bill in 1849, to secure to the public on Speeches of Mr Labouchere, Speeches of Sir G. Grey, and Messrs Wortley, Ellice, and Speeches of Sir F. Buxton and Mr H. Drummond, The principles of the question discussed, Vote-manufacture carried on by the Sabbatarians in Railway 404 404, 405, 409 405 406 406 Companies, 408 Second reading of Mr Locke's Bill, 408 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, 409 409 The Sabbatarians much more noisy than powerful in Scotland, 409-10 410 411 NOTE J.-PROPOSED STANDING COMMITTEE FOR THE The proposal publicly and seriously made, that a Committee of 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, 412 413 |