508  Sunday  as  a  Religious  Institution.    { November. woe"' 
hours  of  dull  and  deadly  routine,  so  that  it  cannot  think  and  cannot 
act.  There  can  be  no  progress  without  research,  and  there  can  be 
no  research  without  time.  To  do  work  that  is  "  worth  the  while  " 
requires  the  proper  development  of  the  individual,  physically,  men- 
tally and  morally,  and  this  takes  time. 
Now,  how  can  this  be  brought  about?  The  answer  is  easy. 
Simply  by  opening  the  store  later  in  the  morning  and  closing  it 
earlier  in  the  evening,  and  closing  it  every  Sunday  afternoon.  The 
way  to  close  is  to  close,  or  as  Horace  Greeley  would  say :  "  The  way 
to  resume  specie  payments  is  to  resume."  Do  you  realize  that  by 
opening  your  store  at  7.30  a.m.  and  closing  it  at  8.30  p.m.,  you  would 
be  saving  three  golden  working  hours  every  day,  and  that  this  would 
mean  over  1,000  working  hours  a  year,  or  nearly  eighty  working 
days  of  thirteen  hours  each  ? 
What  possibilities  could  be  accomplished  with  such  time  at  your 
disposal  ?  Not  only  along  scientific  lines,  but  also  along  the  lines 
of  broad  general  culture,  of  physical  well-being,  of  moral  duties,  and 
the  proper  performance  of  family  obligations. 
The  realization  of  such  possibilities  would  change  the  entire 
aspect  of  our  daily  life,  would  make  it  infinitely  more  attractive,  and 
would  bring  in  its  train  a  development  that  would  be  of  untold  value 
for  our  own  well-being  and  for  the  public  good ;  and  it  is  not  impos- 
sible of  achievement.  The  reasoning,  thinking  public  is  not  unrea- 
sonable. Its  members  simply  need  to  be  educated  upon  the  real 
necessity  of  an  "  early-closing  "  movement — its  benefit  to  themselves 
in  better  service — and  the  rest  will  be  easy  ;  and  with  public  opinion 
behind  you  in  such  a  movement,  legislation  would  be  altogether 
unnecessary. 
SUNDAY  REST  AS  A  RELIGIOUS  INSTITUTION. 
Bv  David  m.  Steele. 
I  do  not  know  why  I  have  been  chosen  to  make  this  one  of  this 
series  of  addresses  to-night  unless  it  be  because  of  a  chance  remark 
I  think  I  dropped  in  the  hearing  of  some  of  you  when  you  did  me 
the  honor  last  year  to  ask  me  to  preach  the  Baccalaureate  Sermon 
to  the  graduating  class  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  I 
remember  saying  at  that  time  that  I  thought,  as  a  clergyman,  I 
could  sympathize  with  certain  of  you,  as  druggists,  in  that  you  had 
