The loss of some shillings is certainly the loss of some books, some schooling, some innocent amusements for his children, and is, not seldom, the loss of bread. The last, and in the estimation of a large number of religious men, the most serious aspect of the question which I will refer to is this:—“The opening of the Crystal Palace,” it is said, “is but the door to the opening of the national institutions, the theatres, and, finally, the factories and shops on the Sabbath.” But there is evidently a limiting principle at work, recognized by the public, and expressed by the Government. The limitation of the hours, the clause against the sale of spirituous liquors, and the close of that portion of the building which would involve actual handiwork, are recognized by the public at once as right and seemly. There is a public feeling in England which will care for these things, which are supposed to be imperilled; a public feeling which, during the next years, it will be the office of the Church to nurture and unfold. If that public feeling fail us, then, unquestionably, our condition will be most serious; and the question must be argued, how far a Government may maintain, in the face of public feeling, a system of preventions and prohibitions? That it has the right, up to a certain point, most people feel; that there is a point beyond which it is most unsafe, all are agreed. But that point will never be reached in England, while the Church is faithful to her country and to her Lord. If that point ever be reached, on us will be the sin. Ministers of the Church of Christ! there has been too long a schism in the army. The shepherds have been battling for precedence and prerogative, and the sheep have strayed. The call to us now is for work; work—not by platform crudities, vanities, and falsities; not by protests, preventions, petitions, and bills of spiritual rights;—but by earnest, manful, godly, spiritual effort to make the Gospel known and felt as the power of God unto salvation. The power of the Gospel is not felt as it once was. Admirable sermons are preached, and with admirable emphasis and theatric art, but power does not go forth from them. Men look at us, hear us, admire us, but our prehensile power is gone. We do not lay hold on men. We have dealt too much in a religion of exclusions and negations. We need to take hold on men, and say,—“We have good news—good news of God.” The cry, “Good news! light! bread! life!” should be heard more loudly from our pulpits. We should not lack hearers, if we could make them feel that we had good news to tell. Were our Master among us at this crisis, He would not work by protests and prohibitions. Wherever the people were, there would He be, vehement against organized hypocritic wickedness, but patient, gentle, merciful to the souls gone astray in their darkness and misery. Oh, that our hearts could catch that tone of touching human tenderness wherewith