What did Charlemagne's Sunday law of 800 require?
Answer
"We decree . . . that servile works should not be done on the Lord's day, . . . that is, that neither should men
do field work, either in cultivating the vineyards or by ploughing in the fields, by cutting or drying hay, or
by placing a fence, or by making clearings in the woods or felling trees or working on stones or
constructing houses or working in the garden; neither should they come together to decide public matters
nor be engaged in the hunt. . . . Women may not do any textile work nor cut out clothes nor sew nor make
garments. . . . But let them come together from all sides to church to the solemnities of the mass, and let
them praise God for all things which He does for us on that day. "-"Historical Chronicles of Germany,"
Sec. 2, Vol. 1, 22 General Admonition, 789, M. Martio 23, page 61, par. 81.
What is said of those who read, hear, and keep the things contained in this book?
What did He teach concerning the stability of the law?
By what three distinct acts, then, was the Sabbath made?
Have the worthies of old gone to their reward?
When John the Baptist was asked if he were Elijah, what did he say?
8. After the fall of Western Rome, what power in the East arose to harass and overrun the Roman world, East and West?
How may grace and peace be multiplied in believers?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle