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with which the Sabbath discipline is kept in 

 Scotland. Can you give us the reason of 

 this? 



Hal. — I am not sufficiently read in the 

 Church History of Scotland to give the cause 

 historically ; but I think it can hardly be 

 doubted, that it is connected with the intense 

 feeUngs of the early Covenanters, and their 

 hatred with respect to all the forms and in- 

 stitutes of the Church of Rome, the ritual of 

 which makes the Sunday more a day of in- 

 nocent recreation than severe discipline. 



Phys. — Yet the disciples of Calvin, at 

 Geneva, who, I suppose, must have hated the 

 pope as much as their brethren of Scotland, 

 do not so rigidly observe the Sunday ; and I 

 remember having been invited by a very re- 

 ligious and respectable Genevese to a shooting 

 party on that day. 



Hal. — I think climate and the imitative 

 nature of man modify this cause abroad. Ge- 

 neva is a little state, in a brighter climate than 

 Scotland, almost surrounded by Catholics, 

 and the habits of the French and Savoyards 

 must influence the people. The Scotch, with 



