Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least one day a week. But on November 6, by means of an initiative petition, the people of the state were at last able to declare their will. And now, when the Commonwealth permits the city of Boston to decide for itself whether its people shall debauch the Sabbath to the extent of going to see a ball game--the city fathers themselves forbid...
...charge at Gettysburg in which the First Minnesota Volunteers lost 215 of their 262 men. "In all the history of warfare," the President said, "this charge has few, if any, equals. . . . It probably saved the Union Army from defeat. We may well stop to consider on this Sabbath day what Power it was that stationed these men at this strategic point on this occasion. . . . We can only infer that it was the same Power which guided the path of the Mayflower . . . Franklin and Washington . . . George Rogers Clark . . . Lincoln and Grant . . . Fields of France." The last half of the speech dwelt...
...seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord Thy God: in it thou shall not do any work...
...heading of "Gifts" [May 7], you make the statement that "Reformed Jewry holds its services in the U. S. in English, on Sunday instead of Saturday." . While it is true that some Reformed Congregations hold their services on Sunday, the preponderate number of them still cling to the traditional sabbath...
There is every reason to believe that Mr. Rockefeller began to lay his tracks in Ledger A. For example, note his first entry: "September 26, 1855?January i, 1856: received $50 (wages). Paid board and washerwoman. Saved a little. Gave penny each Sabbath to Sunday School...