THE extraordinary movement against Sabbath observance in this country has called forth a protest from an unexpected quarter. The following cutting from “Tit-Bits” speaks for itself. A correspondent had written to the editor protesting against the utterance of a clergyman in England who had advocated a Continental “Sunday.” The editor thus comments on the subject:—”Well, despite certain signs of the times, and a strong advocacy for the full-running of everything on ‘Sunday’ as on any ordinary week-day, I think the traditional sanity of the Anglo-Saxon peoples will warn us against the danger to health and happiness of letting ‘Sunday’ join the ranks of common week-days. I am not going to dogmatize about the origin of a day of rest; but it is probably the most beneficent and humane of all institutions. It seems to me, when I consider the course of history, and the terrific struggle freedom has had to get even as far as it has got to-day, little short of a miracle that the day of rest, one day off work in every seven, ever came into being, or ever survived. That anyone who has the good of his countrymen at heart should think of killing it, or even weakening it, now is hard to understand. I can understand people with axes of their own to grind wanting badly to grind them, or to get someone to grind them, on ‘Sundays’ as on any other day. But if the workers of this country are as wise as I think they are, they will watch with very jealous eyes the easygoing people who talk of ‘Sunday’ in the same airy way that they would talk of Monday or Wednesday. It is probable that, had the day of rest no religious connections and sanctions, it would have disappeared from the scheme of human life long ago, would probably have died in its infancy, and men would now be fighting for a rest day once a week; perhaps, as in some European countries, and in most Asiatic ones, failing to get it. What madness, then, having got it, and got it in a fullness of measure known nowhere except in English-speaking countries, to allow it to be slowly and insidiously filched away by the intrusions of this interest and that, and turned into another working day.” By no stretch of the imagination can “Tit-Bits” be regarded as an advocate of Puritanic ideals, but it is evident this terrible landslide of Sabbath desecration is carrying with it so much that makes for the well-being of the people that men who would be otherwise indifferent to the question of Sabbath observance are being alarmed and feel it their duty to speak out.