SIR WALTER SCOTT, ON THE

 SABBATH.
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It may not be without i's usc Inc .,h m't''"g to our r'c- -~ors, the following o "..- . -.vu on the Sabbath question, of ont

 whom none could accuse of bigotry, viz Sir Walter Scott. l. is taken from th,

 Quarterly Review of ls25--

 live believe in the Divine origin of the

 Bible the Sabbath is instituted for the

 purpose Of religion. The time set apar, is the Sabbath of the Lord a day on which we nrc'not to work our own work or think our own thoughts. Thc precept is positive, and the purpose clear. For our eternal beneita certain space of eve cry weeki is appointed. (Which, sacred from all other avocations save those imposed by necessity and mercy, is 10 be employed in religious duties. The Roman Catholic church, which lays so much force on obser vances merely ritual, may consistently sup pose that the time claimed is n,ure than sufficient for the occasion, and dismiss the peasants, when mass is over, to any game or gambol which fancy may dictate, leav< ing it with the priests to do on tehalf of the congregation what farther is necessary for the working out of their salvation. But this is not Protestant doctrine, though it may be initiated by Protestant Churches. The religious part of Sundays exercise is not to be considered as bitter medicine. the taste of which is as soon as possible to be removed by bit of sugar. On the con- trary. our demeanor through the rest of the day ought 10 be not sullen, certainly, but SC. rious, tending to instruction. Give to the world one half of the Sabbath, and you will find that religion has no strong hold of the other. Pass the morning at church and the evening according to your taste or rank, in the cricket-feld or al the opera, and you will soon find thoughts of the evening haz- ards and bets intrude themselves on the ser> mon, and that recollections of the popular melodies interfere with the psalms. Religion is thus treated like Lear, tu whom his un- grateful daughters first denied one half of his stipulated attendance, and then made i, question whether they should grant him any share of what remained"

 