In Defence of the Lord’s Day.—The Lord’s Day Quarterly, in its July issue, has a report of an interesting meeting in defence of the Lord’s Day, presided over by Col. Granville Smith, C.V.O., C.B. Professor Beresford Pite, in his address, said that the terms, “obligation,” “perpetual,” and “divine authority,” were terms that pinched the natural man. The day was of divine authority, and the obligation was contained in the Decalogue. We had no right to distinguish between the Commandments. The divine obligation, however, was accompanied by spiritual blessing. Love of God constrained us to keep His Commandments. Love of His will, of His Word, and of His day, were essential parts of our religion. The Lord’s Day was valuable evidence of the existence of God, of the will of God, of the love of God, and of the rest that remaineth to the people of God.
Sabbath Trading in Glasgow.—The extent to which Sabbath trading is carried on in some of our larger towns is alarming. In Glasgow a census of the shops and places of business was taken on the 7th June. Among the shops opened were fruiters, grocers, greengrocers, milk shops, eating-houses, oyster and fish bars, news-rooms, picture-frame makers, tobacconists, coal dealers, stationery, ice-cream saloons, barbers’ shops, and photographic premises. The total number engaged was 4,115. Of that number, 2,633 were males, 1,452 females ; 3,340 were British, and 775 foreign. Surely it is time something was done for the sake of these thousands.—English Churchman.
A Message from John Knox.—In his First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment [Rule] of Women, Knox has the following trenchant paragraph :—”Seeing that, by the order of nature, by the malediction and curse pronounced against woman by the mouth of St. Paul, the interpreter of God’s sentence, by the example of that commonwealth in which God by His Word planted order and policy, and, finally, by the judgment of the most godly writers, God hath dejected woman from rule, dominion, empire, and authority above man. Let all men take heed what quarrel and cause from henceforth they do defend.”