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sideration. Step by step, from New York to the desert, 

 I observed this, and it was that which made me previously 

 say that among the last settlers on the frontiers tobacco 

 and whiskey went ahead with man precisely as religion 

 and roads were left behind. To such an extent does this 

 oblivion of the Sabbath-day go, that from the want of one 

 day of rest to distinguish from the other six days not one 

 man in ten of the Far West settlers can tell you if you 

 ask him the day of the week. All days are alike, and not 

 one of them is set apart for rest and worship. At Christ- 

 church it was very remarkable the total absence from 

 divine worship of what would in England be the labour 

 ing classes, and hard indeed did Mr Schayler hit the irre 

 ligious feeling of the times, as well as that of the larger 

 portion of the inhabitants of the city wherein he preach 

 ed, when he instanced the fact that "in periods of idolatry 

 it was easier to find many gods than one honest man, but 

 that now and in St Louis and among certain classes if hon 

 esty, however scantily, existed, the quotation, numerically 

 speaking, was on the side of men, for it was difficult to 

 find one god." 



In St Louis there are an immense number of Germans, 

 who drink, dance, and sing disreputable songs all day, 

 and in this country, intoxicated as it is with a freedom, 

 extending from the press to all the lower classes of society, 

 and amounting to sheer licentiousness, there is not a 

 governing power, through police or executive law, to 

 check this foreign importation of sin from mingling and 

 inflaming the vicious propensities of the people inherent 

 in irresponsible numbers, and rife from an unbelief in 

 heaven. The orchestral service was very well performed 

 at Christchurch, but there was no one to officiate as clerk. 

 During this my second visit to St Louis I made the 



