MR. GLADSTONE ON SUNDAY REST.
At the Sunday Observance Congress, which is being held in Paris under the presidency of M. Leon Say, letters have been received from President Harrison and Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone wrote to this effect:—"lt seems to me unquestionable that the observance of Sunday rest has taken deep root both in the convictions and habits of the immense majority of my countrymen. If it appears to many of them a necessity of spiritual and Christian life, others not less numerous defend it with equal energy as a social necessity. The working-class is extremely jealous of it, and is opposed not merely to its avowed abolition, but to whatever might indirectly tend to that result. Personally, I have always endeavoured, as far as circumstances have allowed, to exercise this privilege, and now, nearly at the end of a laborious public career of nearly 57 years, I attribute in great part to that cause the prolongation of my life and the preser> r aj tiou of the faculties I may still possess. As regards the musses the rinps.tiou is sHll ' more important; it is the popular question partxctUtnci,'' i
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2719, 14 December 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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191MR. GLADSTONE ON SUNDAY REST. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2719, 14 December 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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