“Every man and woman duly, twice a day, upon the first tolling of the bell, repair into the church to heare divine service upon pain of losing his or her day’s allowance, for the first omission; for the second to be whipped, and for the third to be condemned to the galleys for six months.” “If any man, after legall conviction, shall have or worship any other god but the Lord God, hee shall bee put to death.” “If any person turns Quaker, he shall be banished and not suffered to return, upon the pains of death.” “No priest shall abide in this dominion, he shall be banished and suffer death on his return.” “No man shall hold any office who is not sound in the faith.” “No food or lodging shall be afforded to a Quaker, Adamite, or other heretic.” “Every man shall have his hair cut round according to a cap.” Such are a few of the laws that disgrace the beginning of our national life. Repealed they never were, save by the scorn of time, or the revolt of the human heart, as it struggled into a wider and brighter existence. They were only effective as the expression of a spirit then prevalent. Forward marched the soul, and behind is left the hideous husk. Here and there, on the statute-books of certain states, vestiges may remain of Sabbatarian legislation, but they are a dead letter, to enforce which is seldom or never attempted. Roscher observes, “That the puritanical laws, which some of the states have passed prohibiting all sales of spirituous liquors, except for ecclesiastical, medical or chemical purposes, have been found impossible of enforcement.” Said Dr. Dio Lewis on this subject: “A very striking illustration of the weakness of law, when it comes in contact with the instinct of liberty, is the result of prohibition in Maine. I have taken pains to learn the facts in that state. I traveled it throughout and conversed with a large number of its leading citizens, almost exclusively temperance men, and became satisfied (notwithstanding the prohibitory law), that intemperance is the great overwhelming curse of the Pine Tree State.” The Doctor then found fully 300 grog shops in Bangor. He says of Portland, also, the number of arrests for drunkenness in 1874 was 2011. He is authority for the statement that, in 1873, the state prison inspectors of Maine reported the enormous number of 17,808 arrests for drunkenness during that year.