It declares the Roman Breviary obligatory on all except those mentioned (vide 3, supra).

There have, however, been instances of forgetfulness, on the part of some, that they have in keeping the yet unsullied reputation of the army, and that the duties exacted of us by civilization and Christianity are not less obligatory in the country of the enemy than in our own.

Indeed, the conditions are such that, were it not obligatory for portions of every crew to take rest, all of them would be continually on the alert.

The elders at Jerusalem, good men as they were, did not take this view; they could not bear to receive into complete Christian fellowship men who offended their prejudices in regard to matters which they regarded as sacred and obligatory as baptism itself.

I am endeavouring to show, that since laws must be equally obligatory to all, it is the interest of the few good men to submit to restraints, which, though they may sometimes obstruct the influence of their virtue, will abundantly recompense them, by securing them from the mischiefs that wickedness, reigning almost without limits, and operating without opposition, might bring upon them.

But such a mistake is quite unnecessary; and they would doubtless have remedied theirs, if they had not found it obligatory at last to push behind in order to make the donkey move homewards.

(3) The author himself may have rendered it obligatory by seeming unmistakably to lead up to it.

Up to that moment, I repeat, she did not know that any one of these men knew any other; yet she does not even say, "How small the world is!" Surely some such observation was obligatory under the circumstances.

The treaties with certain Indian nations, which were laid before you with my message of the 25th May last, suggested two questions to my mind, viz: First, whether those treaties were to be considered as perfected and consequently as obligatory without being ratified.

The office de Sabbato is obligatory throughout the Church.

Writers on liturgy say that the recitation of the Pater Noster as the opening prayer of Matins was not obligatory until the beginning of the twelfth century.