510  Sunday  as  a  Religious  Institution.  {^oVSef.me?* 
of  use  to  him  only  if  he  uses  it.  Here  it  is  :  let  him  take  it  or  leave 
it,  use  it  or  neglect  it,  esteem  it  highly  or  despise  it.  It  will  do  him 
no  harm  if  he  never  touches  it ;  but  it  will  do  him  no  good  if  he 
does  not  touch  it. 
Furthermore,  if  he  uses  it  at  all,  he  will  use  it  rightly,  never  from 
compulsion  but  only  from  choice.  Not  to  see  this  is  the  mistake  of 
so  many  members  of  the  typical,  average  Sabbath  Reform  Associa- 
tions. They  make  the  mistake  that  every  one  makes  who  attempts 
to  make  men  good  by  statute.  There  is,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  no 
such  thing  as  "  breaking  the  Sabbath  "  in  the  sense  they  speak  of. 
Men  cannot  break  it :  they  can  break  themselves  against  it ;  but  that 
is  a  very  different  matter  and  a  much  more  important  one.  If  a  man 
does  not  use  the  day  then  he  does  the  day  no  injury;  he  injures 
only  himself,  and  to  urge  him,  with  any  profit,  to  use  it  one  need 
never  attempt  to  coerce  or  compel  but  may  only  persuade  and  con- 
strain :  these  are  two  fundamental,  elemental  principles.  The  fact 
that  you — chemists,  pharmacists,  druggists — are  here  at  this  moment 
and  that  you  are  so  intent  on  this  discussion  is  proof  that  you  ap- 
prove them  both.  You  value  Sunday  highly  and  you  want  to  use 
it.    All  I  have  to  say  is,  it  is  too  bad  that  you  can't. 
And  yet  that  is  not  all  I  have  to  say ;  nor  is  it  even  an  important 
part  of  it.  Nothing  would  be  more  natural,  and  certainly  nothing 
would  be  easier,  than  to  stop  at  this  point  and  to  confine  myself 
entirely  to  railing  against  those  conditions  which  have  robbed  you 
of  the  day.  I  could  do  this  all  evening  ;  but  I  am  not  going  to. 
Neither  am  I  going  to  do  any  of  several  other  things  that  I  fancy 
you  expect  me  to  do.  There  are  several  aspects  of  the  subject  that 
I  am  not  going  to  speak  of,  and  that  because  they  are  aspects  and 
not  the  subject  itself.  It  may  be  well,  however,  to  pause  long 
enough  to  state  these  merely  in  order  to  set  them  aside  and  in  doing 
this  to  clear  the  ground  for  the  consideration  of  the  real  and  only 
point  at  issue.  Of  these  there  are  three.  Let  me  speak  them 
merely  in  order  to  say  that  I  am  not  going  to  speak  about  them. 
First,  I  am  not  going  to  discuss  the  subject  of  church-going.  It 
is  an  important  subject,  one  worthy  of  consideration  in  itself,  but 
it  is  not  this  subject.  The  unfortunate  thing  is  that  my  subject  as 
you  state  it — Sunday  Rest  as  a  Religious  Institution — is  practically 
never  discussed  apart  from  this.  That  is  why  the  discussion  so  often 
ends  in  such  confusion.    The  two  subjects  are  not  identical ;  at  best 
