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antique UNITED KINGDOM PETITION to OBSERVE LORD\'S DAY temptation museums For Sale

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antique UNITED KINGDOM PETITION to OBSERVE LORD\'S DAY temptation museums
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This listing is for the early document. Undated, probably early 1800s.

TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The Petition of the undersigned Parents of Scholars attending Sunday Schools in the of HUMBLY SHEWETH, THAT your Petitioners believe the Sabbath to be a Divine Institution given to all men for their spiritual and temporal good, and that the advantages it confers upon the working man are maintained to him by the observance of the sacredness of that day. That your Petitioners regret to find that strenuous efforts are now being made to obtain the sanction of Parliament to permit the Opening of the British Museum and National Gallery on Sunday Afternoons, and also for obtaining an Act of Parliament to permit the Opening of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham on the Lord\'s Dax That vour Petitioners believe that such sanction would seriously interfere with the benevolent labours of Sunday School Teachers, from which the Children of your Petitioners have received grent henefit: and that the recognised opening of places of public recreation on Sundays would form a source of temptation, leading young persons into habits of dissipation and vice. That vour Petitioners believe that the Opening of the Crystal Palace on Sunday would lead to the emplovont of large numbers of persons on that day, and would greatly injure the physical. social, moral, and religious well-being of the community, and of the working classes especially. That your Petitioners therefore - pray your Honourable House not to sanction the Opening of public recreation or amusement, on any part of the Lord\'s Day. of the Tystal Palace, or any other place And your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.
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