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with me." In many places, as in our Western cities, the liquor power 

 is strong enough to openly defy every effort, and to push its business 

 through the front door, regardless of law. Between the two methods, 

 the rum-traffic has taken full possession of Sunday, and the larger half 

 of its profits are gathered in on that day. 



A still more deplorable evil has come upon the Church itself, 

 through reliance upon the Sunday law, and through the acceptance of 

 Sunday, which has neither Scriptural authority nor standing-room on 

 the law of God. It has ceased to appeal to the law of God — except 

 in a very weak way — as the source of authority in matters relative to 

 the Sabbath, and has thereby become shorn of all real strength. Year 

 by year the Church drifts further into the stream of Sunday desecra- 

 tion. The pulpit talks of the terrible disregard for Sunday which 

 prevails, while the pews hasten out on Monday morning to pocket the 

 profits of Sunday business and Sunday revelry. Thus, dependence on 

 the civil law, and false theories concerning the abrogation of the Sab- 

 bath, have turned the heart of the Church itself away from the law 

 of God, and left it to lean on a broken reed which is piercing it 

 through. 



The results are sad, but terribly real. They are legitimate, una- 

 voidable, but none the less ruinous. 



THE MENTAL FACULTIES OF MONKEYS. 



Bt Madame CLEMENCE EOYEE. 



WHEN we compare the mental faculties and social instincts of 

 animals, even of monkeys, with those of the superior races of 

 civilized men, the distance seems immeasurable, and to fill the gap im- 

 possible. But, if we take the lower races of mankind, the differences 

 appear less marked, and even analogies arise. Many of the moral and 

 mental faculties, in fact, which we observe among the quadrumana 

 appear common to them with savage peoples on the one side, and with 

 some of the higher mammalia on the other side, which have well- 

 developed social instincts — with, for instance, dogs, horses, and ele- 

 phants. The animals which man has domesticated are, as a rule, those 

 which belong to social species, and live in the natural state in more or 

 less numerous groups. And, among the monkeys, it is not the large 

 ones, those which most resemble men in stature, that are most social 

 and most susceptible of domestication, but the smaller ones, the tree- 

 climbers. 



The gorilla, of Western Africa, lives in patriarchal and polyga- 

 mous families, in which many females and their young submit to the 

 authority of a single adult, and the habits of the chimpanzee are simi- 

 lar ; but the Cynocephalce, most of the smaller species of the African 



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