Item - A Double Sabbath

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 32 no. 16 — page 2
Subject / Tag:	Poem
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXII, no. 16, March 5, 1877 (Issue)
Author:	Audley, Allena (pseudonym used by Stanley, Clio)
Date:	March 5, 1877
Edition Description:	[Dr. Field writes, in the Evangelist: "You know that, in crossing the Pacific, it becomes necessary to alter the reckoning of the days to conform to that of the Eastern or Western Hemisphere, according as a ship is sailing in one direction or the other. In going to Japan, where the 180th degree of longitude is reached (which is half way around the world from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, from which longitude is reckoned), a day is dropped, and in returning one is added. We crossed the meridian on the 18th of June. Now, as it happened that this was Sunday, we had two Sabbaths, succeeding each other—one of which was the Sabbath in Japan and all Asia, and the other the Sabbath in American and in Europe. Some of our ship's company were puzzled to know which to keep; but I did not think it would do me any harm to keep both, and shall always remember with pleasure this double Sabbath on the sea.]