instruments, and registered in the Spirit’s record, than by the clock. And if a man has no homage to render, no spiritual good to gain, because he desires none, what does he gain, what does the Church gain, what does the world gain, if he be compelled in some sort to recognize it, by being debarred from a pursuit which would at any other time be beneficial to him; provided always that his liberty be no detriment to those who have better ways of spending the day? Bring him to church to hear the Gospel! By all means. I would that all places of pleasure were shut up on Sabbaths, because men felt that they had better work on hand than to visit them. But if the man says, “I will not enter your churches—I hate them;”—we ask, where is the gain to him, to any one, in saying, “There are the ale-houses, there are the tea-gardens—you are a sinner for going, but there they are; there is, moreover, a train specially provided by Government for you to travel; but this Crystal Palace, so grand and beautiful, we can and will debar you from. Whatever good it has to offer you, you shall not get it on Sabbath days!” It seems very foolish to confess that all attempts to make the masses devote the hours of the Sabbath to devotion are futile—that no serious limit can be set successfully to the efforts of private speculators to tempt men to demoralizing Sabbath desecration—and yet, when a scheme is set on foot which aims at remedying in some sort the mischief, by elevating instead of degrading men, because it is so good and so complete as to be of national importance, its progress is barred at once.