SOCIAL COLUMN.

[The matter included in this colwmii is contributed and paid/or.]

THE DAY OF REST.

I am go'ngto write a few words about; the Sunday question. Yon «re quite right, my frieud—it is a very old ques tion, older by far than the drink question or the labour question, or the municipal question, or any other questions which captivate the ears of our cottagers and Artisans. Yes, the Sunday question is very old ! indeed. Who started it ? Let me see, you e»y, was it John Wesley ? No. Oliver Cromwell? No. Martin Lut her? No. Much, older th»n any of these, older even than the Christian religion. The HudcUj question was started by G«d himself. One day's rpat in seven, that is the Sunday question, and it was started in the second chapter of Genesis, repeated in "the twentieth chapter of Bsodns, and has gone on ever since. When the French carried ont the terrible Revolution of 1789, they thought they would revolutionise the Sunday question, as well as Ihe king question and the aristocracy question. Bo they fitted the Sunday into their decimal system, and hud one day in ten for & day of rest. Nc good. After a long try it was found impossible. Men could not go on working for ten days, in spite of the drcimal system, so the Sunday got buck to the seventh day once more. I Before we go further let us stop and think. Our Bank Holidays were pro cured for us by Sir John Lubbock, and I for one would like to see more of them ; but onr Sunday Holyday was given us by God. An Acs of Parliament can add to or diminish Bank Holidays, bat no Act can alter the weekly Holyday. God has so made us that we must have one day's rest in seven, or safer for the want of it. Well, my friend, you and I have no desire to be wiser than our Shaker. We quite appreciate the day of rest, and have no sympathy with those who would make it a day of work. The Sunday question for us is, How shall we spend the Lord's Day ? and the an swers to this embrace great differences of opinion:

My friend Robinson is ap betimes on Sunday morning. The day is never long enough for him. He has to get up at six o'clock on week-days to go to work, and why not; get up at half past neven on Sunday to worship God? Sometimes ha attends a service before preakfast; he loves the quiet of that service. His children are sent regu larly to Sunday school, and when they come home Robingon is always ready to hear what; tbsy have been taught, He goes to church in the morning, and allows Mrs Robinson to go in the evening, whilst he looks after the baby, and, if that imperious little body permits, dips into one of the many good cheap books bow within reach of everyone. And when he turns up at work on Monday he looks all the brighter for hia day of reat, and bia master often remarks that hy can get two days' work out of Robinson oa a Monday. What a contrast to Robinson is his neighbour, Tom Smith. When It is fine he and his family are off by traia to some favourite picnic placfe, and get back on Sunday night tired out with tho day's tnj jyraent. .The children look on the day of reat as a Bank Holiday, and are very cross when the weather is too wet or too cold for an outing. On those days th^y spend their time in j running about the housp, teasing the cat, or doing anything bub sit down and read the good bonka which the minister's wife lends Mr Smith for Sunday use. Nexfcdoor to Tom Smith lives Wi I Jones, He !ike3 a quiet Sunday. So the children are sent to Sunday school, and to chapel afterwards, whilst Will stays in bed, or smokes his pipe arii reads a Sunday newspaper. Mrs Jones has to cook a hot dinner, which takes up all her time, At night she is too tired to go to chapel, so she dozes by the fire j whilst Will spends his tiaie at the "Blue Boar," and comes home very often the worse for liquor. Now, notice tha'b Smith and Jones keep Sunday free from work, and yet they do no,t seem to keep it qaite in the right way.

My friend Smith makes Sunday into a day of pleasure. He legards it as a weekly holiday, and gats aa much en joyment in that *?ay as possible. Jones regard the Sabbath as literally a day of rest, and divides his time between sleeping, reading smoking, and swilling. Robinson, on the contrary, regards Sunday as a day of religious rest and helpful worship. Ib is not so different from other days that he quite enjoys It, and as to making it into a day of mere amusement and laziness, saoh an idea wou'd never enter his head. What is the right way to observe Sunday? It is meant to be « day of rest Put the spade and wheel away ; Do no weary work to day.' We should rest from our ordinary toil. We should, if possible, forget all about it—nob even speak ofib. Put it right away, and ddn'fc think of it till Monday morning. I know th»* a great many are obliged to * kon Sunday, That is a part of "linday question too big to discuss now. All I will say on that point is, that we all ought to have one day's reat in seven, and when every one thinks the same, we shall soon see the end of seven days' work a week. But rest does not mean doing noth ing. Look at the army of Christian workea—Sunday school teachers, mis sion preachers, evangelists, and others. They all find rest in change of work, and are more refreshed by their Sunday labours than our frend Jones, who would sleep for the twenty four hours of Sunday if he could manage it. No; rest means change of occupa tion. Mr Gladstone rased to rest by chopping tress ; it did him good after sitting for hoars in the House of Cobq» inoas, And John Stamp finds rest in reading Mr Gladstone's speeches ; it does him good after a day in the blacksmith's shop. Once more, rest does not mean racket -—at least, not Sunday rest; I find no fault with our friend who takes his children for aa outing on Whit Monday but on Whit Sundaygjfcte should rest in quit© another way.

mday is meani (@ he a day of worship You and I «?e rushing into eternity. 1 wonder how much longer we shall be In this world ? We were made "in the image of Odd," and are meant to serve I him. ! I So we say our prayers night and morning (afc least I hope we do), and read a few verses from God'a holy Book. But Sunday is ranant to be given up j entirely to God as His day. It is to fee 1 kept holy, that is, separate ; not like a common day at all, So part of our time should be spent in God's'house, and part ia reading good books, and even talk ing about Him and his will. Let the children love Sunday, be cause on that day father is always smiling, and mother ia always ready to talk to -them j and let them learn to regard church and school as a priviledge and not a bard necessity; Edwin S Stubdee,

A Great and Useful Life

Lord Chancellor Oampbell, PART 11. On Jane 20, 1887, King William the Fourth died. His end had been foreseen for iome time, • and I had settled,' saya Campbell, • that the new Sovereign should be proclaimed* by the name of Alexandrina Victoria, the name by which she had been baptised, leaving it to her thereafter to deter mine by what name she should reign.' Some were desirous that she should assume the title of Elizabeth the' Second. •As soon as I beard that King William had expired, I harried to Kensington to be present at the first Council of the new Sovereign. This, I think, was the most interesting scene I have ever witnessed. H^r simplicity, her dignity, her grace, made oven Peel enthusiastic' Concerning his friend Wilkie's pic ture of this gathering, however, Camp bell says that the costumes are all the invention of the painter. He did not wear his robe aud ful -bottomed wig, as represented, and the Queen was in black, not in white muslin. la March of the following year Campbell's chambers in the Temple were burnt down, and everything in them perished except the Attorney- General's Great Seal, which was found almost entire under a brick. The accident cansed the loss of all his fee and retainer books, besides his notes on a most important case concerning the Privileges of the House of Com mons, the fruits of months of patient industry. Campbell had a considerable share in the work of carrying through the Penny Postage Act. His constituents in Edinburgh, who could have their letters carried from London by a pri vate conveyance for a penny, were much discontented at being obliged to pay a shilling to the Government. Campbell headed a deputation which waited upon the Prime Minister (Lord Melbourne) and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, urging them to agree to the grand scheme of a uniform letter ] postage of one penny. j This measure greatly disgusted some members of Parliament, who were no longer able to exercise their privilege of franking (i c., sending free) letters for their friends. Some went so far as to declare openly that there was no longer any use in being in Parlia ment ! In 1841 h<3 left the b*r, was raide a peer, and for a short time held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland • When Lord John Russell became Prime Minister in 1846, Lord Camp bell was a member of his Cabinet, and so remained till, in 1850, be was made Lord Chief Justice. When this appointment was first mentioned, Lord Campbell wrote in hie journal:—" Now would be the time for me to try'to rival Lord Hale, by laying down the rules by which I mean to be governed when I am a judge ; but I can only say that, with the blessing of God, I shall earnestly strive to do my duty." On March 2 the post was definitely offered to him. "We bad," he says, " a very merry evening, and forgot all our anxiety. Oa Sunday we all wenfc to church together and took the Holy Communion, praying that I might be enabled to parform the new duties to devolve upon me." 1 It is rather a m Qlancholy reflection to me,' ha writes, in May, 1851, • that of three peers ra^de' together I alone survive. I can only pray to Heaven to enable me to perform usefully aod respectably the duties of ray station, while life and strength are vouch safed to me, and to fit me for the awful change into another state of existence which must at no great distance await me.'

In August, 1852, Campbell had a narrow escape from death. When returning oq horseback from the Guildhall, his horse took fright oa Southwark Bridge, and dashed him violently on the pavement. He was stunned and severely bruised, and some time elapsed before he recovered consciousness. He waa ordered by his surgeon not to leave the bouse for some weeks, ' bub next morning at half-past nine I was again up m the bench at Guildhall, to the great sur prise and dismay of Mr Attorney- General, who for a space had considered him3el£ Chief Justice.' Campbell was a deeply religious man. His many duties left him ve^y little spare time, but he carried his religion into his daily work From numerous passages in bis letters and journal, he seems to have had fre quently in hie mind a vivid sense of the account which he would have one day to «**VB of ' the deeds done in the body.' .tt each fresh appointment it was his custom to ask special aid of God do enable him to properly perform the duties which would devolve upon him. The deaths of many of his old acquaintances, of the Duke of Welling ton in 1352, and of his own dearly beloved brother two years later, urged upon him the necessity of preparation for his own. IMy poor brothpr cannot be said to have been cat off prematurely,' he writes, 'and I ought calmly to submit tb the inevitable bereavement—pre paring for the awful event which may ovevtake myself at any hour, aad which, in the course of nature, cannot now be distant. 'In all time of oar tribulation, in all time of our wealth, in the hour of death, and In the day of j

judgment, good Lord, deliver us.' In 1859 he was made Lord Chancellor. Lord Campbell disliked having any time on his hands which was not definitely occupied In the intervals between his duties he therefore wrote the Lives of a'l the Lord Chancellors of England from the earliest times, .publishing them in ten volume", following this up with a series on the Chief Justices; His researches led-him to remark that no one before himself : ever exercised the functions of Chancellor having entered his eightieth year. ' Thanks to Almighty God, I am, I believe, as able- for this task, both in body and mind, »s I ever was.' In 1860 a great trial befel him, in the death of his wife. 'I do not expect another hoar's real happiness in this world,' he wrote in his journal, "But I ought not to repine ; I have had a long continuation, daring almost forty ysarg, of prosperity and felicity with my beloved wife, without ever meeting^ till now, with any serious calamity; having reached a period of life consider ably beyond the ordinary age of man, my bodily strength and mental facul ties aoinapaired. * I shall contentedly and gratefully go to my rest in Jedburgh Abbey, and I had rather be laid there, by the. side of my beloved Mary, then be entombed in Westminster Abbey, amid kings, statesmen, warriors, and poets. 1 Lord Campbell has now arrived at the highest pinnacle to which he, as a lawyer, could aspird ; but he found, as others too have found, that wordly success can never satisfy the deepest needs of the soul. Lerd Campbell's daughter thus admirably sums up in a letter her father's character—one which it is well worth while to try to imitate • — 41 My father was a deeply religious man and loved his Bible. He was in the habit of reading the Bible and praying with his family, and was an earnest communicant. So far from resting upon his temporal honours, he was ready and willing to pass to his eternal rest. He had been saying shortly before his very sudden death, that he felt that the prayer in tha Litany againstc sudden death maanfc unprepared death, and that to die suddenly, in the common sense of the word, would be a great blessing—a blessing which was granted to him, and for which we all felt he was fully prepared. • He served hia God and his country with a never-failing regard for duty. He was ambitious, but it was to excel in everything he undertook to do ; and he never relaxed in his efforts to the very end of his long life, always look ing to God .to bless and guide him.' The lord Chancellor retired to rest on the evening of June 22, 1861, apparently in perfect health. His servant on entering his bedroom the next morning found him sitting in a chair, bat with no sign? of life. Thus it had pleased God to call him, in bis eighty-second year, with no lingering illness, out of the very midst of his earthly labours. He left no arrears of work either in the Court of Chancery or in the House of Lord?, In the last cause argued before him on the afternoon of hia death, he had reserved judgment ; but that judgment was found on bis desk the next morning in bia own hand writing and almost completed

IHB A-B• mtfOß OTASDfAtfj SATtIBDAY JANUARY 6 1901

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