[A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]@TWC D-Link bookA Tramp Abroad CHAPTER XXIV 3/13
But our definition is less broad.
We all rest alike on Sunday--by secluding ourselves and keeping still, whether that is the surest way to rest the most of us or not.
The Germans make the actors, the preachers, etc., work on Sunday. We encourage the preachers, the editors, the printers, etc., to work on Sunday, and imagine that none of the sin of it falls upon us; but I do not know how we are going to get around the fact that if it is wrong for the printer to work at his trade on Sunday it must be equally wrong for the preacher to work at his, since the commandment has made no exception in his favor.
We buy Monday morning's paper and read it, and thus encourage Sunday printing.
But I shall never do it again. The Germans remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy, by abstaining from work, as commanded; we keep it holy by abstaining from work, as commanded, and by also abstaining from play, which is not commanded. Perhaps we constructively BREAK the command to rest, because the resting we do is in most cases only a name, and not a fact. These reasonings have sufficed, in a measure, to mend the rent in my conscience which I made by traveling to Baden-Baden that Sunday.
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