The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

PMs on Sundays

The latest editorial in Day one Magazine features choice quotes from seven British prime ministers
1. Sir Robert Peel (1834-1846)
I never knew a man escape failure, in either body or mind, who worked seven days a week.
2. Benjamin Disraeli (1868; 1874-1880)
I hold the Day of Rest to be the most valuable blessing ever conceded to man. It is the cornerstone of civilisation.
3. William Ewart Gladstone (1868-1874; 1880-1885; 1886; 1892-1894)
Tell me what the young men of England are doing on Sunday, and I will tell you what the future of England will be. The religious observance of the Sabbath is a main prop of the religious character of the country. From a moral, social and physical point of view, the observance of the Sabbath is a duty of absolute consequence.
4. Rt Hon Arthur Balfour (1902-1905)The state is the trustee, in respect to Sunday, of one of its most valuable assets.
5. Rt Hon Sir H Campbell-Bannerman (1905-1908) I earnestly hope that the efforts to preserve the sacredness of the weekly day of rest may be successful.
6. Ramsay MacDonald (1923; 1929-1935)
The British Sunday is a great heritage which has strengthened the national character and sustained the life of the people. To reduce it to the continental pattern is to destroy an invaluable
national asset. The question of one day’s rest in seven (and by rest I do not mean recreation) is one of the utmost importance, not only to the physical but to the mental condition of our people. We are getting altogether too superficial and too thoughtless and, unless we pull ourselves up and get inspiration from the deeper silences that lie within us, we shall be unable to face the great problems that modern civilisation places upon us.
7. Sir Winston Churchill (1940-1945; 1951-1955)
Sunday is a Divine and priceless institution, the necessary pause in the national life. It is the birthright of every British subject, our responsibility, privilege and duty to hand on to posterity.

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