But perhaps you may say, “that you neither disobey it, nor teach others to do so.” I need not tell your Lordship, as a learned man, and the Chancellor of one of the great seats of learning, that the day mentioned by Moses, and which you pray the Almighty to give you grace to observe, is TWENTY-FOUR HOURS LONG; that during these twenty-four hours we are commanded to abstain from all manner of work; that we are “to keep the day holy to Jehovah,” and consequently to observe it religiously by not “doing our own ways, finding our own pleasure, or speaking our own words.” Such is the command of the King of Kings. How then can the _half_ observance of the Lord’s-day be reconciled with the divine command to keep the _whole_? If the railway to Sydenham is to be worked on the Sabbath, and the pleasure grounds thrown open, you will of necessity doom a large number of clerks, stokers, drivers, porters, waiters and others to labour on that day on which Jehovah has commanded that no work shall be done. The God of Heaven says, “Thou shalt do no manner of work”; but the Earl of Derby tells the people that they _may_ work on the Sabbath! You thus set yourself in a position of antagonism against the Creator of the Universe. The Scriptures assert that “The Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath”; but you, my Lord, intimate that the Earl of Derby is the Lord of the Sabbath!! When “God spake,” he solemnly commanded that the _whole_ day should be observed; but when the Earl of Derby spoke, he said “_Let half the day be kept_,” thus making himself not only equal but superior to the Almighty!