according to the Golden Rule, there would be no clamor for Sunday laws.

Kind reader, are you a Sunday keeper, and do you wish to enforce Sunday rest on all men, whether they wish it or not? Would you like it if the seventh-day keepers, having a majority, should force you to rest on that day? ---Of course not. Then when you compel them by law to rest on Sunday, do you do unto them as you would that they should do unto you?---Of course not. Then are you an observer of the Golden Rule?--- Not at all. Then are you a Christian?---Impossible; for a Christian observes the teachings of Christ.

Take another case: There are many thousands who do not believe in keeping any day. How would you like it if they should happen to gain control of legislation, and force you to labor on Sunday? Would you not think your natural rights had been fearfully infringed upon? Certainly you would. But have you any more right to compel them to conform to your notions of Sunday keeping than they have to compel you to conform to their notions of non-Sunday keeping? Don't you think it would be more Christlike to let every man keep Sunday or not, as he sees fit, so long as he does not interfere with the rights of others? or do you think that you, as a Sunday keeper, have more rights under the government than you are willing to accord to other people? If so, you have not yet learned the first principles of Christianity.

Again, if Congress has a right to define and enforce one religious institution, it has the right to enforce any and all religious institutions. It has just as much right to enforce Christian baptism as it has to enforce the Christian Sabbath, If not why not?

This religious legislation is dangerous business, and should not be meddled with. I know it is said that it is not a religious but a civil Sunday our ministers and doctors of divinity are seeking to have enforced by law upon the people, because they do not otherwise take rest enough for their health. It is the health of the dear people that stirs up the zeal of our dear brethren in the ministry to labor so ardently to enforce the great American civil Sunday upon everyone; but Dr. Franklin, the great American philosopher said, ''Laziness kills more people than hard work.'' Thousands already take altogether too much rest. What will our philanthropic D. D.'s do with them? Will they