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to sing hymns, and to hear about heaven and Calvary ; in short, we 

 want the pure Gospel without any worldly intermixture.' And so 

 they desire to spend a pious, quiet Sabbath, full of pleasant imagin- 

 ings and peaceful recollections ; but when the day is gone, all is laid 

 aside. They will take by the throat the first debtor whom they 

 meet, and exclaim, 'Pay me what thou owest. It is Monday.' 

 And when the minister ventures to hint to them something about 

 their duty to their fellow-men, they say, 'Oh, you stick to your 

 preaching. You do not know how to collect your own debts, and 

 cannot tell what a man may have to do in his intercourse with the 

 world.' God's law is not allowed to go into the week. If the mer- 

 chant spies it in his store, he throws it over the counter. If the 

 clerk sees it in the bank, he kicks it out at the door. If it is found 

 in the street, the multitude pursue it, pelting it with stones, as if it 

 were a wolf escaped from a menagerie, and shouting, ' Back with 

 you ! You have got out of Sunday? There is no religion in all this. 

 It is mere sentimentalism. Religion belongs to every day to the 

 place of business as much as to the church. High in an ancient 

 belfry there is a clock, and once a week the old sexton winds it up ; 

 but it has neither dial plate nor hands. The pendulum swings, and 

 there it goes, ticking, ticking, day in and day out, unnoticed and 

 useless. What the old clock is in its dark chamber, keeping time to 

 itself, but never showing it, that is the mere sentimentality of reli- 

 gion, high above life, in the region of airy thought ; perched up in 

 the top of Sunday, but without dial or pointer to let the week know 

 what o'clock it is, of time or of eternity." American Paper. 



It may be impracticable to prevent man from taking 

 to himself the whole benefit of every ingenious invention 

 by which the physical power of the horse can be in- 

 creased, yet surely, either by legislation or by the power 

 of public opinion, he should be required to grant or rather 



