DOI issue:
February 23, 1861
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16867#0086
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[February 23, 1861.
Frederick {who, we are sorry to say, is rather fond of chaffing his Brother-in-Law.) “Oh ! Look here, Robert, will you have this with
you in the Carriage, or shall I put it into the Van?”
A BEGG-AR’S PETITION.
We are glad to bear that Glasgow has some thoughts of backsliding
in its Sabbatarian progress, and is preparing a Police Bill by which
some necessaries of life, which have been hitherto prohibited, in future
will be suffered to be sold upon a Sunday. Eeady-made provisions,
bread, and milk, and medicine; these are the sole articles to which the
suffrance is extended, and it will be provided that the sale of them be
stopped between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 in the afternoon.
This is, after all, no such wonderful concession. But trifling as it
may be, great objections have been made to it. A leading Free Kirk
Doctor, whose name is Dr. Begg, has given notice of a motion in the
Edinburgh Presbytery for a petition against the Sunday sale of food
and physic, _ which is sought to be obtained. A Scotch contemporary
reports of him that—
“In giving notice of his motion. Doctor Begg said that the evil [i. e of buying
necessary food] was increasing to an alarming extent in Glasgow. He was glad to
learn that the Sabbath Alliance in Edinburgh were taking action on the subject,
and had appointed a secretary, and he hoped something would be done to call
attention to the matter.”
Certainly, Dr. Begg. Since you beg us so to do, we willingly will
call attention to the matter. We may not do so in a manner that you
would yourself approve, for it is not our custom to w'rite like canting
hypocrites, and to—
“ Compound for sins we feel inclined to,
By damning those we have no mind to.”
But such as it is, you are quite welcome to our notice of the subject.
By the bye, Doctor, were not you the pious party who not long since
inveighed against the.heinous “ Sin of walking on the Sabbath,” and
petitioned that the crime might be put down by the police? If so, we
can conceive, without much stretch of fancy, that you should look
upon milk-selling on the Sunday as a sin. A mind that thinks it sinful
to go and take a walk, of course must see offence in the business of a
milk-walk. Nor, if buying needful food upon a Sunday be an “evil,”
can there be much less ill in buying necessary physic. Better lose
your health than your chances of salvation. Better suffer in the flesh
than run the slightest risk of torment in the spirit. Better have sick
bodies than have sickness in our souls. Yes, assuredly, dear Doctor;
we quite agree to that. But before you hope to make us converts to
your faith, you must thoroughly convince us that buying food and
physic upon Sundays is forbidden us, in the pages of that Book wherein
our duties are described.
If we are not mistaken, there are many men in Scotland of Dr.
Begg’s persuasion, who call Sunday “ the Sabbath,” and think sinful
all out-door employment on that day. Now, why, instead of troubling
the police with their petitions, could they not themselves in person
start an anti-food-and-physic-purchasing crusade, and do what they
think needful to prohibit Sunday trading. Whatever be the case with
other purchaseable condiments, the sale of milk would specially be easy
to be checked. Were Dr. Begg and some few score of his ascetic
brethren to patrol the streets of Glasgow in gangs upon a Sunday, we
feel chemically certain, that, without police assistance, the mere sight of
their sour faces would suffice to spoii the milk.
SLAVERY AND MORMONISM.
“ The Patriarchs of old had slaves,”
The Planter cries, “ ’Tis written.
Pact being so my conscience saves,
Which therefore can’t be smitten.”
“ The Patriarchs,” says Brigham Young,
“ Wives besides one had other.
My withers likewise are unwrung—
Come to my arms, my brother ! ”
A Daily Interview at the Paris Embassy.
Chef de Cuisine. Milord, what is the carte for the dinner of to-day ?
Have you any preference ?
His Liberal Lordship. Ma foi, the same as before— carte blanche.
Vous savez bien, je ne vous donne invariablement rien que ga.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[February 23, 1861.
Frederick {who, we are sorry to say, is rather fond of chaffing his Brother-in-Law.) “Oh ! Look here, Robert, will you have this with
you in the Carriage, or shall I put it into the Van?”
A BEGG-AR’S PETITION.
We are glad to bear that Glasgow has some thoughts of backsliding
in its Sabbatarian progress, and is preparing a Police Bill by which
some necessaries of life, which have been hitherto prohibited, in future
will be suffered to be sold upon a Sunday. Eeady-made provisions,
bread, and milk, and medicine; these are the sole articles to which the
suffrance is extended, and it will be provided that the sale of them be
stopped between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 in the afternoon.
This is, after all, no such wonderful concession. But trifling as it
may be, great objections have been made to it. A leading Free Kirk
Doctor, whose name is Dr. Begg, has given notice of a motion in the
Edinburgh Presbytery for a petition against the Sunday sale of food
and physic, _ which is sought to be obtained. A Scotch contemporary
reports of him that—
“In giving notice of his motion. Doctor Begg said that the evil [i. e of buying
necessary food] was increasing to an alarming extent in Glasgow. He was glad to
learn that the Sabbath Alliance in Edinburgh were taking action on the subject,
and had appointed a secretary, and he hoped something would be done to call
attention to the matter.”
Certainly, Dr. Begg. Since you beg us so to do, we willingly will
call attention to the matter. We may not do so in a manner that you
would yourself approve, for it is not our custom to w'rite like canting
hypocrites, and to—
“ Compound for sins we feel inclined to,
By damning those we have no mind to.”
But such as it is, you are quite welcome to our notice of the subject.
By the bye, Doctor, were not you the pious party who not long since
inveighed against the.heinous “ Sin of walking on the Sabbath,” and
petitioned that the crime might be put down by the police? If so, we
can conceive, without much stretch of fancy, that you should look
upon milk-selling on the Sunday as a sin. A mind that thinks it sinful
to go and take a walk, of course must see offence in the business of a
milk-walk. Nor, if buying needful food upon a Sunday be an “evil,”
can there be much less ill in buying necessary physic. Better lose
your health than your chances of salvation. Better suffer in the flesh
than run the slightest risk of torment in the spirit. Better have sick
bodies than have sickness in our souls. Yes, assuredly, dear Doctor;
we quite agree to that. But before you hope to make us converts to
your faith, you must thoroughly convince us that buying food and
physic upon Sundays is forbidden us, in the pages of that Book wherein
our duties are described.
If we are not mistaken, there are many men in Scotland of Dr.
Begg’s persuasion, who call Sunday “ the Sabbath,” and think sinful
all out-door employment on that day. Now, why, instead of troubling
the police with their petitions, could they not themselves in person
start an anti-food-and-physic-purchasing crusade, and do what they
think needful to prohibit Sunday trading. Whatever be the case with
other purchaseable condiments, the sale of milk would specially be easy
to be checked. Were Dr. Begg and some few score of his ascetic
brethren to patrol the streets of Glasgow in gangs upon a Sunday, we
feel chemically certain, that, without police assistance, the mere sight of
their sour faces would suffice to spoii the milk.
SLAVERY AND MORMONISM.
“ The Patriarchs of old had slaves,”
The Planter cries, “ ’Tis written.
Pact being so my conscience saves,
Which therefore can’t be smitten.”
“ The Patriarchs,” says Brigham Young,
“ Wives besides one had other.
My withers likewise are unwrung—
Come to my arms, my brother ! ”
A Daily Interview at the Paris Embassy.
Chef de Cuisine. Milord, what is the carte for the dinner of to-day ?
Have you any preference ?
His Liberal Lordship. Ma foi, the same as before— carte blanche.
Vous savez bien, je ne vous donne invariablement rien que ga.