But I may add one word respecting the rest of the seventh day. The most distinguished physiologists assure us that both men and cattle require to be relieved from toil at the end of every six days. Gentlemen who have had much to do with horses have assured me that it was always a dead loss to rob those animals of the physical rest of the Sabbath, and that horses which are so worked invariably become diseased and die before their time. Before observation and physiology brought out these facts, the great and merciful Creator gave the command to Moses that “_the ox and the ass should rest_” _on the seventh day_. In the evidence on “SABBATH OBSERVANCE” which was given before the “PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE,” and which, as a Government document, your Lordship has doubtless read, it is stated by several eminent physiologists, that man’s _corporeal_ frame requires the rest of the Sabbath, and that to rob him of this is to injure his health and shorten his days. Yea, they show that tea gardens and other places of excitement produce baneful effects upon the brain and nerves, and eventually lead to premature decay and dissolution. Hence, my Lord, _physiology_ teaches that our merciful Father, the maker of our frame, was right and kind and compassionate in ordaining _one_ day in _seven_ as a rest from toil. The refreshment of sleep teaches us that the body needs repose from continuous labour, and the Sabbath was intended to be still more invigorating. I must here remind your Lordship that _rest_ is the meaning of the word _Sabbath_. A sage reviewer in one of our “Quarterlies,” who has been pompously quoted by a literary brother of the “DAILY” press, has told us with much learned _naïveté_, that the word “_Sabbath_” means “_seven_”!! Doubtless we shall soon hear from the same philosophical philologer that the moon is made out of gossamer. The one will be as true and as scientific as the other. But we may leave these critics to the lexicons. You, my Lord, are distinguished as a scholar, and therefore know full well that our term “_Sabbath_” is the very identical Hebrew word for “_Rest_,” and that a literal translation of the first words of the Fourth Commandment would be, “Remember the _Day of Rest_ to keep it holy.” “_Rest_” from labour, then, is the exact meaning of the word “_Sabbath_.” History and physiology show that man’s corporeal frame requires rest from toil every seventh day; and the Bible teaches that our heavenly Father, who made us thus frail, has, in pure love and mercy, commanded that one day in seven for the repose and consequent reinvigoration of the body shall be reserved from worldly occupations. Physical laws, as well as revealed laws, are the laws of God; and in the law of the Sabbath we have both combined to preserve the health and life of man. We have here a sacred bulwark of philanthropy, proving that the Sabbath, or _Rest-day_, was made for man. The labourer, therefore, has a _Divine right_ to one