Taunton Conference Resolutions on Sabbath Observance
The following resolves were adopted by the Taunton Conference of Taunton, at its recent session at East Taunton, with a request that they be printed in all the newspapers within the bounds of the Conference.—N. B. Standard, Sept. 14, 1875. “Believing, as we do with all Christians, that God has sanctified one day in seven to his holy worship; and maintaining that its rest and quiet are necessary to our best vigor and our highest spiritual good; believing also that our New England has derived its moral influence chiefly from a due observance of the Sabbath and its institutions:— “We deplore the apparently growing disregard of the Lord’s day in the community, and we desire to publicly protest, as a Conference of churches, against its prevalent abuses for holiday excursions, under whatever pretext. “We respectively remonstrate with managers of railroads, steamboats, and other public conveyances, reminding them, and all who pervert the Lord’s day for the sake of gain, that he who earneth wages and not by right, ‘earneth wages to put it in a bag with holes.’”