This then is the sin, the one sin, at which I take aim. I do not pursue this part of the subject, by showing what multitudes of Railway servants, Publicans, Policemen, and others, will inevitably be absorbed during the entire Sabbath for miles and miles around, by this scheme. Here is the one crime, a divided Sabbath: here is the focus and centre of it, the Crystal Palace at Sydenham!—If any do not see the evil, or are determined to blink it, it will not be difficult to draw up a Sketch (not an exaggerated Sketch, but a very simple one, and so much the more convincing:) taking into view—1. London and its suburbs: 2. The circumjacent Counties: 3. The infection of the Continental Sabbath: 4. The state of the families of the industrial classes during the six week-days: and, 5. Their probable condition from Saturday Evening to Monday Evening, _forty-eight hours_, resulting from this scheme of a Divided Sabbath. But I hope that no such Tract will ever have to be written. * * * * * The projected _Aggression of Pleasure_ in 1853 is to me a greater object of dread, than the _Aggression of Popery_ in 1850: because it falls in with the taste of the vast majority of mankind. The danger of Popery I do not under-estimate. It is a scheme adapted to fall in with the Formalism and Self-Righteousness of Man’s heart. There was also treachery in the camp of the Church of England, at the time when Popery took aim at the Royal Supremacy, and asserted its claim to be Lord of the consciences of all mankind: England, of course, included. But England repelled that aggression. The _Aggression of Pleasure_ is more subtle, more extensive, more congenial. It is a subject, therefore, on which I must expatiate with the honest and affectionate freedom of a Clergyman. * * * * * Let me then observe, first, that it is a very difficult task _To move great masses of people in a right direction_. In a wrong direction, it is not so difficult. To rouse them to revolution, and then screw them down by despotism, has been the work of a short time, in some neighbouring countries. But to draw them back from an evil purpose, and lead them into a right channel of feeling and action, is a hard work:—a consideration this, which makes it the more imperative to check at once this flagrant scheme of Sabbath-breaking before it begins. Once broken out, what human hand can turn back the torrent? But is it not equally difficult _Rightly to move the heart even of one individual_? We speak of “The Million:” but that million is composed of units. To lead any one individual, be he rich or poor, to feel the value of his own soul, is a work worthy the labours and sacrifices of a whole life. To move that one heart, however, is not man’s work. _With man this is impossible_: _but with God all things are possible_.