Prize Essays on the Temporal Advantages of the Sabbath

This volume collects five essays written by working-class authors in response to a prize competition encouraging reflections on the benefits of Sabbath rest. Rather than focusing on theological doctrine, the essays argue that a weekly day of rest provides tangible advantages to labourers: improved health, family cohesion, and protection from exploitation in an industrialising society. The book forms part of the broader to the mid 19th century Sabbatarian movement, which campaigned against commercial and industrial work on Sundays, especially in factories and mills. 

Good Condition. Brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding is firm and pages are lightly tanned. Minor cracking to rear hinge. Boards have moderate wear with some splits to spine edges and ends and bumping to corners causing slight fraying. Moderate mottling to boards.