vacations

• in continental nation

72:4.3Ev­ery­one takes one month’s va­ca­tion each year. The pre­col­lege schools are con­ducted for nine months out of the year of ten, the va­ca­tion be­ing spent with par­ents or friends in travel. This travel is a part of the adult-ed­u­ca­tion pro­gram and is con­tin­ued through­out a life­time, the funds for meet­ing such ex­penses be­ing ac­cu­mu­lated by the same meth­ods as those em­ployed in old-age in­sur­ance.

• in continental nation

72:5.9Ev­ery ten years the re­gional ex­ec­u­tives ad­just and de­cree the law­ful hours of daily gain­ful toil. In­dus­try now op­er­ates on a five-day week, work­ing four and play­ing one. These peo­ple la­bor six hours each work­ing day and, like stu­dents, nine months in the year of ten. Va­ca­tion is usu­ally spent in travel, and new meth­ods of trans­porta­tion hav­ing been so re­cently de­vel­oped, the whole na­tion is travel bent. The cli­mate fa­vors travel about eight months in the year, and they are mak­ing the most of their op­por­tu­ni­ties.

• feast of tabernacles was annual Jewish holiday

134:9.4Je­sus planned to re­main through­out the week of the feast of taber­na­cles with John. This feast was the an­nual hol­i­day of all Pales­tine; it was the Jew­ish va­ca­tion time. Al­though Je­sus did not par­tic­i­pate in the mer­ri­ment of the oc­ca­sion, it was ev­i­dent that he de­rived plea­sure and ex­pe­ri­enced sat­is­fac­tion as he be­held the light­hearted and joy­ous aban­don of the young and the old.

• 3-day v. on Mount Sartaba

143:3.1About this time a state of great ner­vous and emo­tional ten­sion de­vel­oped among the apos­tles and their im­me­di­ate dis­ci­ple as­so­ciates. They had hardly be­come ac­cus­tomed to liv­ing and work­ing to­gether. They were ex­pe­ri­enc­ing in­creas­ing dif­fi­cul­ties in main­tain­ing har­mo­nious re­la­tions with John’s dis­ci­ples. The con­tact with the gen­tiles and the Samar­i­tans was a great trial to these Jews. And be­sides all this, the re­cent ut­ter­ances of Je­sus had aug­mented their dis­turbed state of mind. An­drew was al­most be­side him­self; he did not know what next to do, and so he went to the Mas­ter with his prob­lems and per­plex­i­ties. When Je­sus had lis­tened to the apos­tolic chief re­late his trou­bles, he said: “An­drew, you can­not talk men out of their per­plex­i­ties when they reach such a stage of in­volve­ment, and when so many per­sons with strong feel­ings are con­cerned. I can­not do what you ask of me—I will not par­tic­i­pate in these per­sonal so­cial dif­fi­cul­ties—but I will join you in the en­joy­ment of a three-day pe­riod of rest and re­lax­ation. Go to your breth­ren and an­nounce that all of you are to go with me up on Mount Sartaba, where I de­sire to rest for a day or two.