The Sabbath for Man. A Study of the Origin, Obligation, History, Advantages and Present State of Sabbath Observance, with Special Reference to the Rights of Workingmen, based on Scripture, Literature, and Especially on a Symposium of Correspondence with Persons of all Nations and Denominations. ..

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Contains references to the Jewish Sabbath in Biblical times as well as material (at pp. 258-61, 499, 508) about the Jews in the United States and their obligation, provided they desire to be good citizens, to respect the Christian Sabbath day. If the Jews won’t obey our Sunday closing laws, Crafts advises them not to come to this country but pursue instead their exploitive commercial practices elsewhere. "The lower grade of Jews, such as have robbed the less shrewd peasants of Russia and Germany by wholesale, and have come to England and America for the same purpose, such as habitually violate the Christian Sabbath laws, are not a kind of emigrants that should be enticed by concessions and special privileges" (p. 260).