working, why shut up the tradesman's shop, and yet not impose this wholesome restraint upon those who, of all others, stand the most in need of it? we mean that busy, ever-working class, who travel night and day through our streets and highways,1 and

'There has been a great deal of worldly cant about the cruelty of depriving the industrious tradesman of his jaunt into the country on the Sabbath-day; but we would ask, is one man's day of pleasure to be purchased at the expense of another man's day of rest? for it is obvious that the tradesman's amusement can only be procured by the labour of those who are to administer to that amusement. And again, we would ask, is it really the most respectable and industrious part of the community who thus spend their Sabbath? We believe not! we believe that they are perfectly satisfied with the opportunity afforded them of attending their church, and recreating themselves in the parks and walks of their own vicinity. As for the poorer artisan and labourer, (by far the most numerous class,) for whose Sunday amusement such tender solicitude is often pretended, it is obvious that they are precluded the use of public or private conveyances by the expense, their only, and, let us add, their best means of conveyance being the two legs which nature has given them. The real question, however, is this; is it better that one class of people should be deprived of their Sabbath, than that another class should be deprived of their amusement? If so, be consistent, and abrogate the Sabbath at once. We, however, suspect that it is not our tender concern for the amusement of others, but our tender concern for our own convenience,

whose condition recalls to our fancy those captives of old who were chained to the chariot wheels of the victors. That they have souls to be saved as well as the rest of the community is, we presume, freely admitted; but they are not the less cruelly debarred the privilege of a Sabbath, in which they may attend to their eternal welfare. Is there no kind hand powerful enough, by a legislative enactment, to rescue them from the grasp of mammon-from that temptation to gain which is too strong for them to resist? To him who had that power we would say, use it; as far as you are able, make the observance of the Sabbath universal; leave out no class of persons, God left out none.1 As far as you are able, try to insure its inestimable privileges to

that lies at the bottom of this inconsistency: selfishness is the great parent of sophistry: "Otez l'intérêt de soi (says a famous French writer) et les sophismes ne sont plus à craindre."

1 Even the very brute creation (that portion of it destined to labour for man) was not forgotten in this merciful enactment; for though it is in the nature of man to have no consideration for those who minister to his pleasures or his cupidity, it is in the nature of God to be gracious to all, for his tender mercies are over all his works."-Psalm cxlv. 9.

those who now are excluded from a participation in its benefits. Insure to them the same opportunity you have provided for others of seeking the means of grace here, and the hope of glory hereafter. Give them a Sabbath, "that they may rest as well as thou."

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The scene at the sepulchre is described by the four Evangelists, and though they all agree in the main events (such as the disappearance of the body, the vision of the angels, and the subsequent re-appearance of our Lord), yet do they differ in some minute particulars. St. Mark, for instance, would seem to contradict St. John, for he begins his account by saying, at the first verse, that both the women went to the sepulchre; but when we read on to the 9th verse, he incidentally corroborates the account of St. John, for he distinctly states that our Lord appeared first to Mary Magdalene. We can easily suppose that as the devoted "John did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre," so the affec

tionate Mary would, in her anxiety, probably outstrip the other women, and arrive first at the tomb of her Master. We have entirely followed the account of St. John, because, from his having been personally engaged in the transaction he relates, his account is naturally the most circumstantial in its details.

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We find that Bishop Hopkins, in his valuable work on the Church of Rome, has commented upon this very transaction, and considers it a powerful argument against the supremacy of Rome, and the infallibility of Peter. We strongly recommend the perusal of his work, which is equally adapted to the general reader and the theological student. It is written in the spirit of simplicity, christian charity, and christian truth. Facts are stated, and out of their own mouth does he condemn the doctrines of the Papists; for he shews that the fathers of the church, the great authorities, to whom they constantly refer, never acknowledged the supremacy of Rome,

or the infallibility of Peter; that St. Jerome, whom they term the "most blessed," declares, on the contrary, that "The Church of Rome is not to be thought one thing, and that of the whole world another. Gaul and Britain, and Africa and Persia, and the East and Judea, and all the barbarian nations, adore also one Christ, and observe the same rule of faith. If authority is sought for, the world is greater than one city. Wherever there is a Bishop, whether at Rome, or Constantinople, or Rhegium, or Alexandria, or Tanis, he is of the same excellency, of the same episcopate." The same view is taken by St. Augustin, who says, "The Church is the house of God-But this house is not built in one corner of the earth, but through all the earth;" and again, "the body of Christ is the church: but who are the supporters of the church, unless it be the Apostles, who are also called pillars?" "That which was committed to Peter, that which he was commanded to do, not Peter only, but likewise all the Apostles heard, held, and kept.” Popery, such as it now is, Bishop Hopkins proves was established long after the time of the fathers; and he observes, that when the Papists, in ignorance of this fact, quote the