of  rest  aud  labor  at  the  short  intcirals  which  are
afforded  by  the  merciful  and  blessed  institution  of
Sundaj'  are  necessary  for  the  retention  of  a  man's
mind  and  of  a  man's  frame  in  a  condition  to  dis-
charge his  duties,  and  it  is  desirable  as  much  as
possible  to  restrain  the  exercise  of  labor  upon  the
Sabbath,  and  to  secure  to  the  people  the  enjoyment
of  the  day  of  rest."

The  necessity  of  the  Sabbath  is  evident  from  its
connection  with  the  productiveness  and  profitableness
of  human  labor. Eminent  statesmen,  successful  mer-
cliants  and  enterprising  manufacturers  have  long  since
conceded  the  need  of  tliis  day,  simply  on  the  ground
of  ])i)litical  economy. It  is  shown,  by  the  joint  ad-
mission of  employers  and  employees,  that,  in  the
long  run,  the  wages  of  a  week  of  .seven  days  is  only
c<iual  to  the  wages  of  si.\,  and  that  the  work  is  no
more  in  the  longer  week  than  in  the  shorter. "For
my  own  part,"  said  Lord  Macaulay,  in  discussing
the  Ten-hour  bill  in  the  House  of  Commons,  "I  have
not  the  smallest  doubt  that  if  we  aud  our  ancestors
had,  during  the  hust  three  centuries,  worked  just  as
hard  on  the  Sundays  as  on  the  week-days,  we  should
have  been  at  this  moment  a  poorer  people  and  a
less  civilized  people  than  we  arc,  that  there  would
have  been  l&ss  production  than  there  h;is  been,  that
the  wages  of  the  laborer  would  luvve  been  lower  than
they  are,  and  that  some  other  nation  would  have
been  now  making  cotton  stuffs  and  woolen  stuffs  and
cutlery  for  the  whole  world."

The  Sabbath  is  a  necessity  for  the  best  interests  of
the  working  clas.ses. Suppose  the  day  be  abstracted
from  the  world,  and  how  sad  to  this  important  por-
tion of  the  community  would  be  the  result. Think
of  lal)or  tlius  going  on  in  one  monotonous  and  con-
tinuous and  eternal  cycle,  limbs  forever  on  the  rack,
the  fingers  forever  playing,  the  eyeballs  forever
straining,  the  brow  forever  sweating,  the  feet  forever
])lodding,  the  brain  forever  throbbing,  the  shoulders
forever  stooping,  the  loins  forever  aching,  and  the
mind  forever  scheming. 