^oVembe^igoe!0'}    Sunday  as  a  Religious  Institution.  509 
to  work  so  much  of  your  time  ;  that  there  was  certainly  no  other 
profession  in  which  so  many  men  had  to  work  so  many  hours  of  so 
many  days  in  the  week  as  they  do  in  yours — except  my  own.  The 
one  thing  that  we  have  in  common  is  that,  as  everyone  knows,  we 
both  have  to  work  Sundays.  If  there  be  any  question  which  of  us 
works  the  longer  hours  on  week  days,  it  finds  answer  in  the  fact 
that,  while  you  at  this  moment  are  sitting  here  resting  I,  even  at  this 
late  hour  of  the  night,  am  still  working — making  this  speech.  The 
only  thing  that  might  still  leave  open  the  question  which  of  us  works 
the  harder  would  be  the  possibility  that  I  who  make  this  speech  am 
having  an  easier  time  than  you  who  have  to  listen  to  it.  But  that 
question  I  hurry  by,  being  afraid  to  put  it  to  vote,  and  come  to  my 
theme  itself. 
About  this  matter  of  keeping  Sunday,  there  are  two  things  to  be 
said  at  the  outset.  The  first  is  that  it  is  one  of  the  things  one  does, 
if  at  all,  not  because  he  has  to,  but  because  he  wants  to.  The 
second  is,  that  Sunday  as  an  institution  is  not  something  that  exists 
for  its  own  sake  and  to  be  honored  as  such,  but  something  that 
exists  to  serve  a  purpose  and  is  to  be  used  as  such.  It  is  not  the 
chief  end  of  man  to  keep  Sunday ;  it  is  the  chief  end  of  Sunday  to 
serve  man.  If  these  two  facts  be  gotten  clearly  in  mind,  much  of 
the  difficulty  which  hedges  the  subject  about  resolves  itself,  much  of 
the  discussion  current  regarding  it  is  robbed  of  its  bitterness  and 
much  of  the  perplexity  and  apprehension  of  so  many  people  in 
regard  to  it  is  seen  to  be  needless  and  groundless.  May  I  ask  you 
to  consider  these  two  points  then  for  a  moment  each  and,  if  it  is  not 
too  confusing,  to  consider  them  in  their  inverse  order. 
Sunday,  I  say,  is  something  that  exists  not  for  its  own  sake  but 
for  a  purpose.  All  such  statements  as  this  come  down  finally  to 
that  classic  statement  made  so  long  ago  that  "  The  Sabbath  was 
made  for  man  and  not  man  for  the  Sabbath."  That  single  statement 
sums  up  and  clears  up  one  entire  half  of  the  subject  and  has  more 
meaning  than  any  save  the  very,  very  few  have  ever  realized.  Man 
has  been  called  many  things,  many  different  kinds  of  an  animal ;  a 
social  animal,  a  political  animal,  a  religious  animal,  etc.,  and  rightly ; 
but  he  has  never  been  called,  and  is  never  called  upon  to  be,  a  Sab- 
bath-keeping animal  merely  as  such  or  merely  for  the  Sabbath's 
sake.  Here  then  stands  an  institution  and  here  is  man.  He  is  of 
no  use  to  it ;  it  is  of  use  to  him.    But  like  everything  else  it  is 
