his sacred injunctions, plainly teaching us that if we violate his commands we give a public demonstration that we do not love him. Now, to keep the Sabbath _one half_ of the day and violate it the other, is to furnish but a very poor proof that we feel any deference for the Fourth Commandment. My Lord, would you be satisfied that your commands to your servants should be _half_ broken and _half_ kept? Are you pleased with your coachman if he drives you _half_ way to church on the Sabbath when your command is to be driven _all_ the way? Do you like to have your will in any other particular but _half_ done? Would you be pleased to have your hunters and racehorses but _half_ fed and _half_ groomed, or your food but _half_ cooked? Yet we may ask, Who is the Earl of Derby, that his commands should be _perfectly_ obeyed to the very letter, while the God of Heaven, at the instance of this same Earl of Derby, is to be satisfied with only a moiety of that obedience which he has enjoined in the Scripture? What, my Lord, if you comprehended all your own wishes in “_Ten Commands_,” and summoned all your servants into your presence once a week and directed your chief steward to read in their ears your injunctions, commencing with the sentence, “The Earl of Derby spake these words and said”; and what if all your attendants fell on their knees before you, and, in the most pitiful language, confessed that they had rebelled against your precepts; implored mercy for their transgressions; earnestly entreated you to assist them in their future efforts to do your pleasure; and, having satisfied themselves that you had pardoned them, immediately rose from the ground and resolved in future to be more guilty than ever by neglecting your commands altogether, or by only attending to _half_ their import! Could you put up, my Lord, with this farce week after week and year after year? Would it require fifty-two repetitions of such insolence to exhaust your patience? Would the Earl of Derby allow himself to be thus insulted even a second time? Would you not denounce these impudent menials as a set of mocking hypocrites? But is it a matter of more importance that the Earl of Derby should not be mocked than that the God of Heaven should be worshipped in sincerity and in truth? Let me then entreat your Lordship, as you value your present consistency and future happiness, either to reverence the Fourth Commandment, or else cease to use the prayer attached to it in the Liturgy.