But it may be further said, “that the working classes should not be debarred from bodily rest and relaxation on the Lord’s day.” We cheerfully grant it; but we deny that the opponents of the opening of the Crystal Palace on the Sabbath seek to deprive the working man of his Sabbath’s bodily rest from toil. How great the difference between the two classes of working men—those who “rest according to the commandment,” who repair in clean and decent garb to the house of God morning and evening, and spend the intervals of public worship in reading and meditation, or in the instruction of the young. We ask you by personal examination to contrast the refreshment both of mind and body with which this class return to their work on Monday morning, with the jaded spirits, the shattered nerves of the frequenters of steam-boats, the occupants of excursion-trains, the patrons of the tea-garden and the public-house, who go back to labour unrefreshed and unblessed, and too often the victims of surfeiting, drunkenness, and riotous excess. And are we to be told that such an argument is invalid in the present case, because no spirituous liquors are to be sold within the park or the palace on the Lord’s day; when (as present preparations _without_ the walls clearly indicate) we know that the gin-palace and the public-house will thrive and prosper on the traffic of multitudes who will enter them _first_ and visit them _last_, and without whose unhallowed stimulants the sculpture, the flowers, and the fountains would lose half their charms? And, moreover, instead of Sabbath rest, will not the opening of this building on the Lord’s day lead to _a vast increase of Sabbath labour_? Must there not be a large addition to the staff of railway officials, as well as of police, required, not only on the main line of traffic, but also to attend to, to accommodate, or to keep in order the multitudes who, by excursion-trains on other lines, will fill our streets and crowd our public vehicles on their way to this scene of profanation? And now, let me conclude by calling on all Christians to come forward without delay, and to raise a loud, united, and solemn protest against this iniquitous project. If this Protestant nation speak out boldly and decidedly, we do not see that any Minister of the Crown will despise the remonstrance and the warning. And, most of all, we are strong in the confidence, that if the _real_ tendency of this measure is fully explained to our gracious Queen, and if she find that it is disapproved of and abjured by the great religious bodies of the empire, she will not rashly imperil our safety, or be the instrument of establishing a Popish and a divided Sabbath.