Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1892 — Selling Milk. [ARTICLE]

Selling Milk.

Is it lawful to sell milk to a Duchess on Sundays? This is the great question which has just been agitating a West of Scotland Presbytery. Mr. . Robert Kelso, a farmer -and elder oi the Free Kirk in the Island of Arran, has been in the habit of supplying milk to the Duchess of Hamilton at Brodick Castle on Sundays. His minister remonstrated with him for this particular form of Sabbath desecration. No exemption, the minister pointed out, was made in the camp of Israel in regard to manna—Saturday’s supply having always to serve for Sunday—therefore, no exemption ought to be made in Arran, even in 'the case of milk to a Duchess. The Kirk Session supported the minister, and decided that the wicked elder should be admonished. The elder, however, refused to submitj and appealed to the Presbytery, and this body, while recognizing the zeal ol the Session, has enjoined that no admonition shall take place. The elder thus returns to this island victorious, and Sunday calls at the castle will presumably be continued. Meantime, “the medical man in London,” who was irreverent enough to affirm that “milk diet was a necessity for the Duchess and Lady Mary” on Sundays as well as other days, may well be left to the “after-biting” of his own conscience.