Rose Hipp
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first heard Aug 2026
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It was through it that the fatal foreign policy of Lord Palmerston obtained such support even against the conviction and instincts of the best and most far seeing statesman of the country, as, for instance, the late Lord Derby.
It was through it, certainly, that the cry for secular education was welcomed amongst us.
That divorce and liberal marriage laws came into force, and that attacks were permitted upon the sanctity of the Sabbath and other Christian institutions.
Speaking on this latter subject, I must say that one change in the habits of the people of England and Scotland too struck me very forcibly on my return to the United Kingdom after a long absence.
When, some twenty three years ago I last visited these islands, it was a pleasure.
And when one thought of the desecration of the Sabbath on the continent, it was a pride to witness the state of the streets of our great cities on Sundays.
The shops were as shut up as at midnight.
Every thoroughfare manifested a religious quiet.
which reverentially and most emphatically proclaimed the reign of God in the country.
On my return, I
I found that a new departure from good, old, holy customs had commenced, which to me looked anything but an improvement.
I found in London and elsewhere a multitude of shops with shutters removed, and goods displayed in the most tempting profusion, marked for sale, and distracting the passers by
even more than they could do on a weekday.
A contrivance to keep within the law was introduced in many cases.
It was a kind of iron rail doorway which left the full inside of the shop or store visible, so that to all intents and purposes the interior was within the turn of a key of being as much in the way of business as shops of the same kind in Paris.
What prevented business being done, and clerks and assistants being forced to labour as vigorously on the Sabbath as on any other day?
The law alone this a breath might destroy.
And public opinion, already accustomed to the sight of shop windows open on Sundays, would easily become reconciled to the turn of the key in the iron door.
At first, this would be only for a few hours, of course, but afterwards, just as in Paris, forever.
No doubt, a large percentage of good religious shopkeepers avoid this scandal, and I hope the public of our cities will make out these and patronize them in preference to others who put the thin end of the wedge of destruction into our observance of the Christian sanctity of the Sabbath.
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