The Lord’s Day in Paris

Let my readers fancy that as they pass on their way to the house of God, they see almost all the shops in their native town or village standing open, with men and women buying and selling, and they have an idea of the desecration of the Lord’s day in Paris. Th6 tide and toil of business does not cease in very many cases till night brings rest to its weary slaves.

On returning from evening service, I have seen them still behind the counter, chained to the oar; and, in not a few instances playing cards when business was slack in the shop. A visit to Paris would convince the working classes that those are their worst friends who attempt to divest the first day of the week of that holiness which, as all experience proves, affords the only security for rest and repose to the sons of toil.— GUTHRIE.

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