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94 SUNDAY IN MASSACHUSETTS.
in Scotland, amusements and labour, except works of
necessity and mercy, are prohibited. In Scotland,
also, Sunday commences at twelve o'clock on Saturday
night, and ends at twelve o'clock on Sunday night.
In Massachusetts, on the other hand, different views
are entertained. While Chap. 50, Sects. 1st, 2d, and
3d, of the Revised Statutes, prohibits all persons
from doing any work, and from travelling on " the
Lord's day," Sect. 4th declares that day, for the purposes
of these sections, " to include the time between
the midnight preceding and the sunsetting of the said
day." According to the Scottish law, therefore,
Sunday consists of twenty-four hours, at all seasons
of the year; while, according to the " Revised Statutes
of Massachusetts," it consists only of sixteen
and a half hours on the 22d of December, and stretches
out as the days lengthen, but never exceeds nineteen
and a half hours at any period. Hence, in Scotland,
a person would be fined or imprisoned for doing acts
after sunset, on the Sunday evening, which in Massachusetts
are entirely lawful. Again: in the Revised
Statutes of this Commonwealth, it is declared,
by Sect. 5, that " no person shall be present at any
game, sport, play, or public diversion, except concerts
of sacred music, upon the evening next preceding or
following the Lord's day," under the penalty of paying
a fine of five dollars. In Edinburgh, the best plays
and public entertainments are brought forth on the
" evening next preceding the Lord's day," or Saturday
evening,--and are then most numerously attended:
so that in Boston a Christian is fined in five
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/134/?q=%221838%3F%22&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.