But, my Lord, if you have power, supposing you were prime minister, to annul the Fourth Commandment, then you have power to abolish all the rest. If you can command that the Sabbath shall be _half_ kept and can give men a charter to break the other _half_, you certainly have power to allow them to break it altogether; and if you can grant a royal commission to violate _one_ precept of the decalogue, you can license the people to break the whole. And, my Lord, you must not stop, for there are persons to whom the _Sixth_, the _Seventh_ and _Eighth_ Commandments are as great an obstruction to their profit or pleasure as the Fourth Command is to the Sydenham gentlemen. How many thieves could enrich themselves but for the Eighth Command; and how many might relieve themselves of the burden of dependents or jump into rich inheritances, by trampling the Sixth in the dust! Yea, my Lord, were they only allowed by a royal charter to violate one _half_ of these commandments, by half starving, half killing and half robbing their fellow creatures, no one can tell the property that might be saved or gained. Here would be a “MAGNA CHARTA” with a vengeance, and one, my Lord, which would immortalize your name to all eternity. The dead, by the million, would proclaim your fame or your infamy. And there can be no just reason given why, if you granted a charter to railway speculators to enable them to rob their servants of the Sabbath, you should not give other worshippers of Mammon equal power to plunder and oppress; for I shall presently have to show that to deprive the physical frame of rest once in seven days is both robbery and murder, and therefore if you begin to charter these outrages, you will find it difficult to stop. It will be only for any company to make out a case and prove that _pleasure_ and _profit_ will be the result of oppression, robbery and death, and you, to be consistent, must advocate their cause. The change in The Prayer Book too must be greater than at first was contemplated. Instead of praying “Lord have mercy upon us, and write ALL these THY commandments in our hearts, we beseech thee”; or, when the fourth is abolished, “Lord have mercy upon us, and write NINE of these THY commandments in our hearts, we beseech thee,” you will have to obliterate them from the Liturgy altogether. And indeed wherever in the prayers, thanksgivings, or collects there is any reference to the commandments of Jehovah, the words must be omitted in the re-formed Prayer Book. Of course, my Lord, after this great and stupendous change, we shall hear no more of the heresy of Nonconformists, and the wonder of modern times will be, not, “Is Saul among the prophets?” but, “Is the Earl of Derby among dissenters?”