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higher blessings.

ECAUSE God gave the Sabbath to be a Day of Rest; and what the Divine Law secured for the Jew, the Gospel confirms to us, with still

2. Because, by working on Sunday, the working-man would deprive himself of the time God has given and blessed, not only for Rest, but that he may prepare for a happy eternity.

3. Because the body is like a seven-day clock, and on every seventh day needs, by resting, to be wound up. But, by workBut, by working on without rest, a working-man strains his body, and wears it out before the time. He will become old too soon; and the body may want to rest earlier in the grave to make up for the Sabbath rest it has lost. 4. Because, if the working-man is a father, by working on Sunday he loses a blessed opportunity of Home influence and happiness. Unless ill or out of work, perhaps he never spends a day with his family at home. His children see but little of him; the wife, too, is left to do all-to bear the burden alone. Soon the children will be grown up and gone. Our Heavenly Father meant that while the earthly father works for them for six days, he might rest and be happy with them on the Day of Days.

5. Because, by working on the Sunday, the working-man must injure his brother working-men. He is tempting masters to employ their men on the Sunday, whenever they think the work will pay. He is saying by his example, "I think this is fair and right."

But it can be proved that a man, in the long run, can do as much work in a year when he rests on Sundays as he could do

works on all days alike, he gets weaker than when he rests for one day in seven. What, by working on Sundays, he gains in time, he loses in power. He will not then do more work in the year, though he work on all days alike, than he would do did he rest for one day a week. And the master can only pay for the work that is done. If no more work is done, no more work can be paid for. So that, did Englishmen lose their weekly rest-days, the time would soon come when they would work on all days in the year, and yet get no more money for their work than they get now. He therefore who works on Sundays, is helping to bring this about, and thus sinning against his brother workmen.

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6. Because, by working on Sundayunless the work is called for by necessity or mercy-the working-man is driving a very bad bargain.

Is he on Sundays sailing his boat on a canal or river? Is it not a bad bargain to lose his Sabbaths and their privileges that the iron, or cotton, or coal, or goods, may reach the wharf some hours sooner? There is no necessity that he should be sacrificed in order that these goods may now be forwarded. But there is a necessity that these goods should now remain where they are, in order that he may worship God and enjoy his Sundays. There are companies who never sail their boats on Sunday; and they say as much can be carried in a year when horses as well as men rest one day in seven, as can be carried in a year by their working on all days alike. No boat travels on any canal in Scotland on Sunday. Yet Scotland can sell its cotton, iron, and other goods at as cheap a rate as we do in England. In one county of England, more than thirty owners of canal boats have signed an agreement

to be hoped that the larger proprietors will follow their example. Encourage them, then. Let them not think that workmen wish them to employ them on the Lord'sday.

Or is he working on Sunday in ironworks, or in chemical works? Men can be found, in various parts of England and Scotland, who in these trades never work on Sundays, and yet they thrive. There are in Great Britain about nine hundred iron-furnaces at work: of these about two hundred now are stopped on Sunday. An ironmaster said, when speaking before a Select Committee of the House of Lords, "We have made more iron since we stopped on Sundays than we did before." And he further says, that "Workmen labouring for six days, with one day of rest, make more iron than if they worked incessantly without a day of rest." He adds that, in

proof, "any gentleman may come and refer to our accounts." But even if it were not so, and the worst came to the worst, the price of the article would but be raised a little, if there was a slight loss by stopping from Saturday to Monday. And if all were to agree, all might close. And better would it be for the country to pay a fraction more for its chemicals, than for thousands of men to be deprived of their Sundays, of their bodily rest, their home enjoyments, and their religious privileges.

God has given the Day to all. It is a precious gift; good for the masters, and good for the men. Let us then do what we can, especially by our example, to lessen labour on this Day of Days; and so secure for others what we enjoy ourselves -a happy Sunday.

C. B.

Scotland, sent his little son to work

with a farmer, who employed him in keeping sheep. This little fellow had the spirit of work in him so strong that he could not be idle without misery. At home he had taught himself to read by hearing his father teach an elder brother, and before he was nine years old had manufactured model watermills and a wooden clock. When out with the sheep, having no books but the bare hills and the sky, he took to studying the stars, with which he made himself so well acquainted as to astonish all who knew him.

A gentleman, out of kindness, taught him a little arithmetic, and lent him books. From reading one of these, guided by the description alone, he actually made a globe sufficiently accurate for the working of problems.

SIGHT hard against a hasty temper. Anger will come, but resist it stoutly.

was transformed by his own earnest work into a sound practical philosopher.

He laboured on, and carved his way to wealth and to fame, both of which he worthily won and wisely enjoyed. He published numerous works on various subjects, and contributed more to the diffusion of astronomical science among the people perhaps than any writer before or after him, having also mastered the study of mathematics as few but professors do master it. If you would understand the principles of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy, you cannot do better than have recourse to the "Popular Explanation of Newton's Theory," which is the work of James Ferguson, once a farm labourer on the moors of Scotland.

fit of passion may give you cause to mourn all the days of your life.