PILING ON THE AGONY.

Evening Star, Issue 3404, 19 January 1874, Page 3

PILING ON THE AGONY.

To, the Editor. ' e SIR,--The Presbyterian Committee on the State of Religion adopt the following report of »4 r %hd member in their deliverance : ;In these -Ltwo districts] thcr©. hiis. a yery sensible increase of Sabbath desecration, lii |he yjay not on,ly of drinking, but going shoot-! ffft vidipg. about, and otherwise nus-gp'en'ding jhe Sabbath.’ I repollect ‘ Punch’ ¥*B a in Scotland addresajhg tourists on n walking excursion" on a Sunday morning somewhat to this effect:—“Na, na. Ye niay hae as much whuskey as ye like ; hut I ‘ canna help ye to break the Saiybath day by cuttin’ sandwiches for ye !” Till now, however,-1 thought Mr Punch was in this instance an irreverent libeller: that the unco guicf.did not.think itv?ss less dyhfyinrijng. the “ Sabbath ” tft spt the day through than to take an airing 'on Sunday—even to go in an excursion train. I recommend all who have the opportunity to read Dr Hesaey’s Bamptpn Lectures for, I think, the year 1860 (entitled “ Sunday”), and then to search all the writings of all the Sabbatarians. since the Sabbatarian hypothesis was started—not a very ancient epoch—and try if he can find a hint at an answer to f r Spey’s arguments from Scripture and, r ,°* T “story against the Mosaic institution of the Lord’s Day.-I am, &0., ' " ' tv History. JJunedin, January 19.