Bights of Workmen: (a) Sunday Rest.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 43, 31 July 1891, Page 9

Bights of Workmen : (a) Sunday Rest.

From this follows the obligation of the cessation of work and labour on Sundays and certain festivals. This rest from labour is not to be understood as mere idleness ; much less must it be an occasion of spending money and of vicious excess, as many would desire it to be ; but it should be rest from labour consecrated by religion. Repose united with religious observance disposes man to forget fora while the business of this daily life, and to turn his thoughts to heavenly things and to the worship wh ic h he so strictly owes to the Eternal Diety. It is this, above all, which is the reason and motive of the Sunday rest ; a rest sanctioned by God's great law of the ancient covenant, Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath Day* and taught to the world by His own mysterious "rest " after the creation of man; lie rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.\