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day of total cessation of labour. How they employ the day 
withindoors, we venerate the sanctity of the domestic hearth too 
highly to venture to surmise. It may be said, and truly, that 
the public solemnities of the day were reverentially kept; and 
further, that there were no external indications of what might be 
justly deemed inconsistent with these strict religious observances. 
The term Sabbath is as common here as that of Sunday is in 
England. To the majority of the people it is a Sabbath, a day 
of rest. To the majority of the English it is a Sunday, a plea- 
sure-holiday. ‘ 
In populous places in England thousands and tens of thou- 
sands seek recreation in the country, to which access is now easy 
by railways and navigable rivers. Probably an equal number 
stay at home, to cook and eat a hot, heavy dmner. And many — 
of the latter class spend their afternoons and evenings in the 
public-houses ; not a few of them unwashed, unshaved, and un- 
shifted. Probably our Scottish neighbours are over-strict in 
their religious observances, and probably we are too lax. It may 
be observed that neither they nor we ourselves apply the proper 
term to this sacred day, for sacred it is: its sacred character is 
sanctioned and established both by the laws of the Church and 
the laws of the land. Yet it is not the Sabbath, which is still 
observed by our Jewish brethren, and which is equivalent to our 
Saturday: its proper Christian name is the Lord’s day. Sun- 
day is its heathen name, the name by which it was known before 
the introduction of Christianity. It is to be feared that, as its 
proper name is now disused both by the Sabbatarians and by their 
antagonists, so its proper nature and purpose are also misap- 
prehended. Sed non nostrum est tantas componere lites: “we 
will not judge between the contending parties.” 
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Names of Plants derived from the substances they produce, or the 
purposes to which they are applicable. 
Viscum.—Because, from this plant, either from the berries or from the 
bark, birdlime was and probably is manufactured; hence the old and 
homely proverb, “Turdus malum sibi cacat :”’ or, as we commonly say, 
“The fool cuts a rod for his own back ;” and the Scotch, ‘“ He pu’s (pulls) 
a wand to ding (beat) himsell.” 
