To render the Lord’s Day interesting, Religion itself must become interesting to a People. Every-day Religion is the only thing that can make a Sunday-Religion profitable and interesting. The one topic of pre-eminent importance in this point of view is—_The General introduction of Family Prayer_. Domestic Worship is among the greatest of earthly blessings, both to the Rich and to the Poor. We say in England, “Every man’s house is his Castle.” For all domestic purposes, let every man’s house be also his Church! In setting up this standard, the Ministers of Christ have a noble task before them. Our public Congregations on the Lord’s Day will not be diminished by the multiplication of these Domestic Sanctuaries during the week: these, on the contrary, will render our every-day Religion interesting, and thus make also the Sabbath a delight. They will fill our Churches, and thin the throng of Sabbath-breakers, please God, to nothing! As to the notion that this violation of the Sabbath will give rest and mental refinement to the people, it is an utter delusion. Last year I was conversing about the Excursion-trains with an aged relative, who has since been removed to the eternal world. When under twenty years of age he was for a while engaged in mercantile business, in one of the most active and opulent of our manufacturing towns: but from pure love to the work of the Ministry he relinquished very flattering worldly prospects, and for more than forty years was a burning and a shining light in the parish and in the county where he laboured. Referring to his early days, and viewing with alarm the threatening abuses of the Railways, he remarked to me—“They quite mistake the idea of Sunday-rest, who suppose that it consists in pleasure-taking. When I was engaged in business, early and late on all the week-days—very often so tired out that I scarcely knew what to do with myself—Sunday was the greatest possible refreshment to me. The mere act of ceasing from work, together with reading my Bible and going to Church, was rest. But then,” he added, “this implies a change of heart; a different taste from what the world has.” * * * * *