218 THE HOKSE AND HIS KIDER. 



slavery, found that by it they were merely to be trans- 

 ferred from good highways to bad bye-ways. 



If thousands of omnibuses, cabs, and canal-boats, which 

 have been plying seven days in the week, are suddenly 

 restrained by human laws from running on the Sabbath, 

 the proprietors instantly diminish the number of their 

 horses, expressly for the purpose of continuing to give to 

 each the same amount of work and of rest, the latter, like 

 " the best of oats, beans, and chopped hay," being bestowed 

 upon him solely to enable him to perform the maximum 

 amount of work. 



In short, by the common rule of three, as well as by 

 the common rule of life, quaintly exemplified by the fol- 

 lowing extract, human reason calculates that if 7000 horses 

 are necessary to work for seven days per week, only 6000 

 will be wanted to work for six days. 



" SUNDAY AND WEEKDAY RELIGIONS. The tides come twice a- 

 day in New York Harbour, but they only come once in seven days 

 in God's harbour of the sanctuary. They rise on Sunday, but ebb 

 on Monday, and are down and out all the rest of the week. Men 

 write over their store door, ' Business is business,' and over the 

 church door, ' Religion is religion ;' and they say to Religion, ' Never 

 come in here,' and to Business, * Never go in there.' ' Let us have 

 no secular things in the pulpit,' they say ; ' we get enough of them 

 through the week in New York. There all is stringent and biting 

 selfishness, and knives, and probes, and lancets, and hurry, and 

 work, and worry. Here we want repose, and sedatives, and healing 

 balm. All is prose over there ; here let us have poetry. We want 



