274 WHAT IS LIFE ? 



arising in the masses is forced to expel these obstruc- 

 tionists, to cast them into outer darkness and for 

 ever ? 



The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the 

 Sabbath. A time is near at hand when our museums, 

 our art galleries, our cathedrals, churches and chapels 

 will be opeD on the Sabbath for intellectual develop- 

 ment and elevating music set to healthy words, and if 

 the priests will not foster this progress, others must 

 take their place. 



Yes, it is a marvellous change we are going through. 

 u Only one hundred years ago, nations and communi- 

 ties were as distant from each other in time as they 

 were at the Christian era. Since then the ends of the 

 world have been drawn together, and civilised society 

 is becoming one vast highly organised and interdepen- 

 dent whole the wants and requirements of every part 

 regulated by economic laws bewildering in their in- 

 tricacy with a nervous system of five million miles of 

 telegraph wire, and an arterial system of railways and 

 ocean steamships, along which the currents of trade 

 and population flow with a rapidity and regularity 

 previously unimagined. The old bonds of society have 

 been loosened ; old forces are becoming extinct ; whole 

 classes have been swept away, and new classes have 

 arisen. The great army of industrial workers through- 

 out the world is almost entirely a growth of the past 

 hundred years. Vast displacements of population have 

 taken place, and are still taking place. The expansion 

 of the towns, one of the most remarkable features of the 

 industrial revolution, still continues unabated, no less 

 in America and Australia than in England, Germany, 

 and France ; and civilisation is everywhere massing 



