Transcribed from the 1852 Nisbet and Co. edition by DavidPrice, , using scans from the BodleianLibrary, Oxford.
THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE
AND THE
CHRISTIAN SABBATH.
BY
THE REV. JOHN WEIR,
MINISTER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, RIVERTERRACE.
LONDON: N. H. COTES, 139,CHEAPSIDE;
NISBET AND CO., BERNERS STREET;
J. H. JACKSON, PATERNOSTER ROW, ANDISLINGTON GREEN
1852.
(Price 1d., or 7s. per 100.)
p. 2I AM very sensible of the imperfections ofthe following Discourse (delivered on the 24th ult.), but incompliance with the request of many friends, it is now issued ina tract form, as an humble testimony to “presenttruth” and present duty, and with the earnest prayer thatit may be of some service to the cause of the ChristianSabbath.
J. W.
Islington, 3rd November, 1852.
LONDON: C.RICHARDS, 100, ST. MARTIN’S LANE.
p. 3THE NEWCRYSTAL PALACE
AND THE
CHRISTIAN SABBATH.
Isaiah v.24.—“Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble,and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be asrottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because theyhave cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised theword of the Holy One of Israel.”
Luke xvi. 13.—“Yecannot serve God and Mammon.”
2 Timothy iii.4.—“Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God: fromsuch turn away.”
A SIMULTANEOUS effort is thisday being made in this parish, by ministers of various sectionsof the one Church of Christ, to direct public attention to aquestion of no ordinary magnitude, with which the cause ofnational righteousness is identified; and to stir up thecommunity to unite in vigorous, yet peaceful opposition to aproject, which involves the perpetration of a great nationalsin.
Most of those now present have gazed with admiration on themarvels of the memorable and magnificent Crystal Palace of 1851,the design of which originated with the same Prince who, in p. 4his homage tothe Supreme Ruler of nations, had previously suggested as anappropriate motto for our Royal Exchange the words now graven onits pediment: “The earth is the Lord’s, and thefulness thereof.” It was in beautiful harmony withthis recognition of the sovereignty of Heaven, and it formed oneof its most gratifying features, that the doors of the CrystalPalace were closed on the Lord’s day. England thussolemnly proclaimed to assembled nations that she exalted thespiritual above the material—the eternal above thetemporal—the immortal above the perishable—in a word,by this public acknowledgment of the Divine law, the RoyalCommissioners, in the nati