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I had often passed this sign before the idea of photographing it occurred to me. I'm glad I did so because it is no longer there. I know very little about this sign, about who erected it or which church the person who erected it belonged to. The sign was at the roadside just before arriving at Midtown's bridge on the Inverasdale peninsula.
I was told that at one point it had been removed and thrown into Loch Ewe - hence the rusty stains, but it was subsequently rescued and re-erected. If you the viewer know anything about this sign please let me know and I'll update this narrative.
I will hazard a guess that the sign was erected by a member of one of the Free Churches because the sign is exhorting people to keep the sabbath holy. In my view this is a stronger article of faith amongst the Free Churches than is the case with the established church. For further information about the history and origin of the Free Church of Scotland read the article at Wikipedia.
I have included below an enlargement of the sign which may allow you to read the text -
In case of difficulty I have listed the full text below -
THE LORDS DAY
"Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy
God, in it thou shalt not do any work, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy
cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day, wherefore
the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it" EXO 20. 8.-11.
"If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy
pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy
of the Lord, honourable, and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways,
nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words.
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to
ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of
Jacob thy father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it" ISA 58 13-14
"Fear GOD, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty
of man.
For GOD shall bring every work into judgement with every secret
thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil" ECC. 12. 13-14. "
For GOD so loved the world that he gave his only begotten SON, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life" John 3. 16. See John 33, 1st EP. Peter 1.23 A.V.
"And in hell he lift up his eyes being in torments" Lu. 16.23. " If they hear
not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose
from the dead" Lu. 16. 31.
Time A.D "and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment."
Luke 23. 56.
North-west Highland Place Names
The landscape of the North-west Highlands and the Gaelic language are intimately connected. Other languages have contributed to the richness of our place names, notably Norse, but the North-west Highlands have for centuries been a Gaelic landscape. In listing the meanings of place names I have relied on authoritative sources wherever possible. For further information about sources please refer to North-west Highland Place Names in the main menu.
Inverasdale; Village on the western shore of Loch Ewe. The following notes are by Professor Watson. In Gaelic it is Inbhir-asdal. A hybrid name; from Gaelic, inbhir, estuary; from Norse, aspi-dalr, Aspen-dale, from osp, the aspen tree. The old forms, together with the independent authority of Blaeu (a 16th century Dutch mapmaker), prove that the modern Gaelic is a contraction with compensatory lengthening of the vowel a.
Midtown; A village on the eastern shore of Loch Ewe. J H Dixon states that Midtown is an Anglicised version of the Gaelic Baile-meadhon from Baile, ‘a town’ and meadhon, ‘middle’.
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