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"legeslative PROTECTION," became as apparent to him as its desirableness was unquestionable.

It is indeed, an unavoidable inference from the plain word of revelation that the Magistrate, being God's minister, using His authority for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well, is as much bound to guard the house of the virtuous and peaceable inhabitant from the forcible entry of moral as of physical outrage as much bound to protect them in the discharge of their parental and religious duties as in the safe keeping of their worldly goods.

CHAPTER VI.

A RAILWAY DISCUSSION.

SEATED in the comfortable corner of a first class carriage, Philander again found himself in society better suited to his habits and tastes than any that he had lately mixed in. His object had been honestly pursued so far, and to one conviction his mind had given free entrance-that enormous evils existed, affecting the well-being of classes if not the most conspicuous, still the most numerous, and by no means the least important of the community; evils resulting from an abuse or neglect of Sabbath privileges. But where to find, or how to apply an adequate remedy was a question beyond his power to solve. He had nearly made up his mind to abandon the original purpose of his tour, and after devoting the re

maining weeks to the gratification of his taste only, to commence a sober investigation of those theories in which his petitioning friend appeared so well versed. On this point he was ruminating, when two out of his three fellow passengers commenced, or rather resumed a conversation, interrupted it would seem, by their stoppage at the station where he had just joined the train. Both were men of gentlemanly exterior,; one, the younger of the two, appeared peculiarly earnest and energetic; the other more cool and deliberate. The fourth party was a quiet gentleman in black, wholly absorbed in the contents of a volume of sermons. Philander's attention was first roused by a remark having reference to something which he had not heard it was made by the elder of the two. 'Your admission that the Sabbath was made for man concedes all that I require. Whatever is made for man is intended for his use; therefore the Sabbath among other things.'

'Granted: and if man were an animal only, the admission might serve your purpose to a certain extent, though even in that case I should contend that its legitimate use was for rest and refreshment to the weary beast; not merely to this or that individual of the species, but to the whole race. I should maintain that the fact of your

horse having thereby a claim to a day's respite from toil, did not entitle him to be drawn about in a carriage by one of mine. If made for any, it is made for all, and that precludes the exaction of labour altogether. Narrowing therefore, the question within the scantiest bounds, viewing it apart from the intellectual and spiritual branches of the subject, I see not what you would gain by the assertion of an indisputable truth.'

'Men, not horses, were the theme. The Sabbath was made for man; for man's use and benefit. A poor man whose daily support is earned by the day's labour, prefers making use of it to furnish him with the means, we will say, of giving his family a good Sunday dinner, and sending them properly dressed to church. His thoughts, meanwhile, are free; and if he likes to

say his prayers, or to con over texts of Scripture, or to recal the last sermon he heard, while guiding or feeding the engine, patrolling the line, or otherwise performing his due part in the railway business, who shall judge him-who begrudge the well-spent remuneration that he

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Then it is optional with those under your direction to work or to rest on the Lord's day? A man who refused to do so, and absented him

self from Saturday night to Monday morning, would then be allowed to resume his post without loss, or prejudice to his standing in your service?'

• That is not the point.'

Pardon me, it is a very material point, vitally affecting the whole question. Still, for argument's sake, admitting that the day was given to man to use according to his own unbiassed will and judgment, if you so fetter a man's will that by pursuing a certain line of conduct he must necessarily exclude himself altogether from the service on which his daily bread depends, or engage in it at a grievous disadvantage, you rob him of his property in the general gift you assume that the Sabbath was not made for him, but for you not ordained for the refreshment of his body and soul, but for the replenishment of your purse. Your position is untenable, my good sir: to establish your point you must alter what God hath spoken: you must render it, "The Sabbath was made for some men, and other men for the Sabbath."

The railway director did not seem to relish his antagonist's line of argument: he dryly said, You take a very one-sided, and remarkably speculative view of the matter: you assume what

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