# Our Sabbaths in Danger A Sermon, deprecating the contemplated opening of the Crystal Palace on the Lord's-Day

Author: Moore, Daniel, 1809-1899

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62221

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## Summary

THE discriminating symptoms of hypocrisy or profaneness in a nation, it has been well said, are, that, by the one, outward ordinances are raised to an exaggerated importance; by the other, they are disparaged, depressed, and set at nought. In the words just quoted, the aim of our Lord appears to have been to put these institutions in their right place,—to enunciate a great principle, by which we could always distinguish between certain moral ends for which _man was made_, and certain outward appointments which were instituted and _made for man_. To obey God, to resist evil, to fulfil a providential designation, to strive after nearer conformity to the Divine image, to fit and capacitate t...

## Chapters

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